An integrated computer supported acquisition, handling, and characterization system for pigmented skin lesions in dermatological images

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 86-98

  Maglogiannis, I ^a   Pavlopoulos, S ^b   Koutsouris, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Classification; Image analysis; Registration; Segmentation; Skin lesion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA ACQUISITION; DERMATOLOGY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SKIN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

IMAGE REGISTRATION; SKIN LESION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORIMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS; HUMAN; MELANOMA; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TUMOR; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLORIMETRY; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS SYNDROME; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 15544369039     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2004.837859     Document Type: Article

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