... conditions such as cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinsonism. The components of a typical biosensor (Figure 3) are as follows (Yoo and Lee, 2010). Figure 3 Components of a biosensor It is defined as a substance of interest that needs detection. For example, in glucose detecting...

... lesions in the detection of skin cancer. Design/methodology/approach A machine vision approach has been employed for analysis of 3D skin textures. This involves an innovative application of photometric stereo for the capture of the textures, and a range of methods for analysing and quantifying them...