Comparison of colour difference formulas to best distinguish resected areas of malignant brain tumours from their background using 5-aminolevulinic acid fluorescence.

Tomasz Szmuda Tomasz Szmuda Paweł Słoniewski

Published in: Folia morphologica (2020)

ΔE* obtained the best colour discrimination between the resected areas of malignant brain tumours and the background when compared to CR and CIEDE2000. Therefore, ΔE* may be the best formula to help neurosurgeons distinguish the colour differences when operating malignant brain tumours with 5-ALA fluorescence.

Keyphrases

resting state
white matter
lymph node
functional connectivity
cerebral ischemia
single molecule
photodynamic therapy
energy transfer
brain injury
subarachnoid hemorrhage