Colour analysis of skin lesion regions for melanoma discrimination in clinical images

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 94-104

  Chen, Jixiang ^a   Stanley, R Joe ^a   Moss, Randy H ^b   Van Stoecker, William ^c  

^a University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

^b Emerson Electric   (United States)

^c Stoecker and Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Colour analysis; Image processing; Malignant melanoma; Skin lesion

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXPERIMENTATION; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MELANOMA; NEVUS CELL; SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS; SKIN COLOR; SKIN DEFECT;

COLORIMETRY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0038627977     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0846.2003.00024.x     Document Type: Article

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