Reliability of computer image analysis of pigmented skin lesions of Australian adolescents

Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 252-257

  Aitken, Joanne F ^a,c   Pfitzner, John ^a   Battistutta, Diana ^a   O'Rourke, Peter K ^b   Green, Adèle C ^a   Martin, Nicholas G ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

early diagnosis; image analysis; melanoma; nevi; skin cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN PIGMENTATION; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COLOR; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MELANOMA; NEVUS; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; QUEENSLAND; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TWINS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0029680031     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960715)78:2<252::AID-CNCR10>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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