Automated extraction and description of dark areas in surface microscopy melanocytic lesion images

Dermatology

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-26

  Pellacani, Giovanni ^a   Grana, Costantino ^a   Cucchiara, Rita ^a   Seidenari, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Dermoscopy; Epiluminescence; Image analysis; Melanoma; Videomicroscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0942300681     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000075041     Document Type: Article

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