Analysis of skin line pattern for lesion classification

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-80

  She, Zhishun ^a   Fish, Peter ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lesion classification; Melanoma; Skin line pattern; Texture analysis

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; MELANOMA; NEVUS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SKIN DISEASE;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NEVUS; ROC CURVE; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037768275     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0846.2003.00370.x     Document Type: Article

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