There exist numerous methods that aim to extract the optical parameters of a tissue by relating reflectance
measurements to a theoretical model of light transport. During the parameter recovery process, assumptions
are often made about the characteristics of the tissue. However, specious assumptions lead to inaccurate or even
incorrect results. We present a method based on the maximum a posteriori estimation technique to recover the
concentrations of the main chromophores present in a biological tissue from reflectance or transmittance measurements.
The method provides correct results even in the presence of significant uncertainty in the underlying
properties of the tissue. A preliminary analysis of the results obtained from simulated skin reflectance spectra
suggests that the proposed MAP based method provides accurate estimates and is robust against a high level
of uncertainty in the tissue's model. The results of phantom data are in agreement with the findings from our
simulations as they emphasise the importance of including prior information about the unknown parameter in
the estimation process.
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