`skimage.data._fetchers:skin`

source: /dev/scikit-image/src/skimage/data/_fetchers.py :1169

Signature

def skin ( )

Summary

Microscopy image of dermis and epidermis (skin layers).

Extended Summary

Hematoxylin and eosin stained slide at 10x of normal epidermis and dermis with a benign intradermal nevus.

Returns

skin : ndarray of shape (960, 1280, 3) and dtype uint8: RGB image.

Notes

This image requires an Internet connection the first time it is called, and to have the pooch package installed, in order to fetch the image file from the scikit-image datasets repository.

The source of this image is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Normal_Epidermis_and_Dermis_with_Intradermal_Nevus_10x.JPG

The image was released in the public domain by its author Kilbad.

Aliases

skimage.data.skin