Irregularity index: A new border irregularity measure for cutaneous melanocytic lesions

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-64

  Lee, Tim K ^a,b   McLean, David I ^a,c   Atkins, M Stella ^b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Border irregularity; Melanoma; Scale space filtering; Shape descriptor

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CANCER REGRESSION; CELL GROWTH; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL EXPERT; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; PIGMENTED NEVUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SKIN DEFECT;

EID: 0037344458     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(02)00090-7     Document Type: Article

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