Classification of reflectance spectra from pigmented skin lesions, a comparison of multivariate discriminant analysis and artificial neural networks

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2859-2871

  Wallace, V P ^a   Bamber, J C ^a   Crawford, D C ^a   Ott, R J ^a   Mortimer, P S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BENIGN TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MELANOMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEVUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MELANOMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEVUS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOFTWARE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0033780241     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/10/309     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Neural Network approach to qualitative identification of fuel and oils from laser induced fluorescence spectra
2. Complexity, chaos and human physiology: The justification for nonlinear neural computational analysis
3. Impact of skin cancer education on general practitioner's diagnostic skills
4. Application of an artificial neural network in epiluminescence microscopy pattern analysis of pigmented skin lesions: A pilot study
5. Neural networks and their applications
6. Artificial neural networks for cancer research: Outcome prediction
7. Image recognition neural network: IRRN
8. Shape analysis for classification of malignant melanoma
9. Interobserver variability on the histopathologic diagnosis of cutaneous melanoma and other pigmented skin lesions
10. Identification of variegated coloring in skin tumors: Neural network vs rule-based induction methods
11. Neural Network diagnosis of malignant melanoma from colour images
12. Frequency-domain photon migration measurements of normal and malignant tissue optical properties in a human subject
13. Principles and pitfalls of diagnostic test development: Implications for spectroscopic tissue diagnosis
14. Considerations of sample and feature size
15. Computer image analysis of pigmented skin lesions
16. Early detection of malignant melanoma: Observation on results of educational strategies
17. Cutaneous malignant melanoma in Scotland: Incidence, survival and mortality, 1979-94
18. In vivo spectrophotometric evaluation of neoplastic and non-neoplastic skin pigmented lesions - 2. Discriminant analysis between naevus and melanoma
19. Clinical accuracy of the diagnosis of cutaneous malignant melanoma
20. Mechanisms of light scattering from biological cells relevant to noninvasive optical-tissue diagnostics
21. Neural network classification of infrared spectra of control and Alzheimer's diseased tissue
22. Artificial neural networks for early detection and diagnosis of cancer
23. The multilayer perceptron as an approximation to a bayes optimal discriminant function
24. Malignant melanoma
25. Measuring the accuracy of diagnostic systems
26. Neural network system for the identification of infrared spectra
27. Classification of clinical autofluorescence spectra of oral leukoplakia using an artificial neural network: A pilot study
28. Spectrophotometric assessment of pigmented skin lesions: Methods and feature selection for evaluation of diagnostic performance
29. Layered Monte Carlo model for the description of diffuse reflectance spectra from pigmented lesions
30. Application of backpropagation neural networks to diagnosis of breast and ovarian cancer