Segmenting skin lesions with partial-differential-equations-based image processing algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 763-767

  Chung, Do Hyun ^a   Sapiro, Guillermo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SKIN;

HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; SKIN LESIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; HAIR; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LETTER; MELANOMA; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; SKIN TUMOR;

ALGORITHMS; HAIR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; PHOTOGRAPHY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034214887     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.875204     Document Type: Article

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