The effect on clinical judgements of new types of fluorescent lamp: II Colour measurements and statistical analysis

This paper (the second in a series of three) describes an investigation into the possibility of using colorimetric measures to quantify the differences between skin lesions and adjacent clinically normal skin as viewed under a variety of fluorescent lamps. The results show that it is possible to differentiate anaemia and cyanosis from clinically normal skin using various colour parameters. However, none of the colour parameters investigated could differentiate between all the dermatological pathologies observed.