Can early malignant melanoma be differentiated from atypical melanocytic nevus by in vivo techniques? Part II. Automatic machine vision classification

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-22

  Gutkowicz Krusin, D ^a,c   Elbaum, M ^a   Szwaykowski, P ^a   Kopf, A W ^b  

^a Electro Optical Sciences Inc   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Electro Optical Sciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical melanocytic nevus; Classification; Malignant melanoma; Multispectral imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0030907471     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.1997.tb00154.x     Document Type: Article

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