skimage2.data.skin

skimage2.data.skin()

Microscopy image of dermis and epidermis (skin layers).

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

Returns:

skinndarray 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.