Multi-spectral image analysis and classification of melanoma using fuzzy membership based partitions

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 287-296

  Patwardhan, Sachin V ^a,b   Dai, Shuangshuang ^a,c   Dhawan, Atam P ^a,d  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d SPIE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dysplastic nevus; Fuzzy membership function; Melanoma; Nevoscope; Tree structured wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

EPI-ILLUMINATION IMAGES; MELANOMA; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE INFORMATION;

DATA ACQUISITION; FUZZY SETS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE WAVELET TRANSFORM BASED TREE STRUCTURE CLASSIFICATION METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; IMAGING; MELANOMA; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS SYNDROME; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; SKIN NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 18844452915     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2004.11.001     Document Type: Article

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