Fractal charaterisation of boundary irregularity in skin pigmented lesions

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 436-442

  Piantanelli, A ^a   Maponi, P ^b   Cialabrini, A ^b   Scalise, Lorenzo ^c   Basso, A ^a   Serresi, S ^a  

^a INRCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Box counting method; Fractal analysis; Melanoma; Skin pigmented lesions

Indexed keywords

DERMATOLOGY; FRACTALS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; SKIN; TUMORS;

BOX COUNTING METHOD; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; MELANOMA; SKIN PIGMENTED LESSIONS;

DIAGNOSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EXCISION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MELANOMA; NEVUS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCREENING; SKIN DEFECT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PIGMENTED NEVUS; SKIN DISEASE;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FRACTALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 27744536156     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02344723     Document Type: Article

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