Hand motion segmentation against skin colour background in breast awareness applications

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 26 V, Issue , 2004, Pages 3221-3224

  Hu, Yuqin ^a   Naguib, Raouf N G ^a   Todman, Alison G ^a   Amin, Saad A ^a   Oikonomou, Andreas ^a   Al Omishy, Hassanein ^b   Tucker, Nick ^c  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^b WALSGRAVE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast awareness; Breast cancer; Hand and face tracking; Machine vision; Pattern recognition; Skin colour modelling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

BREAST AWARENESS; BREAST CANCER; HAND AND FACE TRACKING; SKIN COLOR MODELING;

SKIN;

EID: 11144262070     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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