Automated diagnosis of pigmented skin lesions

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 576-580

  Rubegni, Pietro ^a   Cevenini, Gabriele ^a   Burroni, Marco ^a   Perotti, Roberto ^a   Dell'Eva, Giordana ^b   Sbano, Paolo ^a   Miracco, Clelia ^a   Luzi, Pietro ^a   Tosi, Piero ^a   Barbini, Paolo ^a   Andreassi, Lucio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b LegaTumori   (Italy)

Author keywords

Digital dermoscopy analysis; Epiluminescence light microscopy; Melanoma; Neural network; Nevus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COLOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL DERMOSCOPY ANALYSIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MELANOMA; NEVUS; PIGMENTED NEVUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROC CURVE; SKIN DEFECT;

AUTOMATION; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0037145318     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.10620     Document Type: Article

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