Towards a computer-aided diagnosis system for pigmented skin lesions

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-78

  Schmid Saugeon, Philippe ^a   Guillod, Joël ^b   Thiran, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Boundary detection; Computer aided diagnosis; Dermoscopy; Malignant melanoma; Segmentation; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

DERMATOLOGY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PIGMENTS; SKIN; STATISTICS; VECTORS;

LESION DETECTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MELANOMA; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 12244257793     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(02)00048-4     Document Type: Article

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