Segmentation of skin cancer images

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-74

  Xu, L ^a   Jackowski, M ^a   Goshtasby, A ^a   Roseman, D ^b   Bines, S ^b   Yu, C ^c   Dhawan, A ^d   Huntley, A ^e  

^a Wright State University   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

^d The University of Toledo   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary extraction; Double thresholding; Elastic curve; Image segmentation; Melanoma; Pigmented lesion

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; SKIN;

BOUNDARY EXTRACTION; DOUBLE THRESHOLDING; PIGMENTED LESIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0032760930     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0262-8856(98)00091-2     Document Type: Article

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