From colour to tissue histology: Physics-based interpretation of images of pigmented skin lesions

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 489-502

  Claridge, Ela ^a   Cotton, Symon ^b   Hall, Per ^c   Moncrieff, Marc ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Astron Clinica Limited   (United Kingdom)

^c ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Mersey Deanery   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colour analysis; Image analysis; Melanoma diagnosis; Physics based modelling; Pigmented skin lesions

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; MELANIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPIDERMIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MELANOMA; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSICS; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN COLOR; SKIN STRUCTURE; SKIN TUMOR; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TUMOR VOLUME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0142148232     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(03)00033-1     Document Type: Article

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