Spectrophotometric assessment of pigmented skin lesions: Methods and feature selection for evaluation of diagnostic performance

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 735-751

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

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CALIBRATION; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MELANOMA; NEVUS; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN DEFECT; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOSIS, SEBORRHEIC; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS; ROC CURVE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0034063642     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/3/312     Document Type: Article

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