Differentiation between pigmented Spitz naevus and melanoma by digital dermoscopy and stepwise logistic discriminant analysis

Melanoma Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 37-44

  Rubegni, P ^a   Ferrari, A ^b   Cevenini, G ^a   Piccolo, D ^b   Burroni, M ^a   Perotti, R ^a   Peris, K ^b   Taddeucci, P ^a   Biagioli, M ^a   Dell'Eva, G ^c   Chimenti, S ^d   Andreassi, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c Bio Mips Engineering   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Digital dermoscopy; Discriminant analysis; Epiluminescence; Logistic model; Melanoma; Pigmented Spitz naevus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENTROPY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JUVENILE MELANOMA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DERMATOLOGY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEVUS, EPITHELIOID AND SPINDLE CELL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0035133540     PISSN: 09608931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008390-200102000-00005     Document Type: Article

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