Improvement of monitoring of melanocytic skin lesions with the use of a computerized acquisition and surveillance unit with a skin surface microscopic television camera

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 35, Issue 2 PART I, 1996, Pages 202-207

  Stolz, Wilhelm ^a   Schiffher, Roman ^a   Fillet, Laure ^a   Vogt, Thomas ^a   Harms, Harry ^a   Schindewolf, Thomas ^b   Landthaler, Michael ^a   Abmayr, Wolfgang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS; TELEVISION CAMERA;

CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; COMPUTERS; DERMATOLOGY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KERATOSIS, SEBORRHEIC; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MELANOMA; MELANOSIS; MICROSCOPY; NEVUS, EPITHELIOID AND SPINDLE CELL; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; PHOTOGRAPHY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOFTWARE; TELEVISION;

EID: 0029783726     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0190-9622(96)90324-2     Document Type: Article

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