Computer-aided diagnosis of melanocytic lesions

Anticancer Research

Volumn 25, Issue 6 C, 2005, Pages 4577-4582

  Stanganelli, Ignazio ^a,b,e   Brucale, Aldo ^c   Calori, Luigi ^d   Gori, Roberto ^d   Lovato, Alberto ^c   Magi, Serena ^a,e   Kopf, Barbara ^a,e   Bacchilega, Roberto ^h   Rapisarda, Vincenzo ^b   Testori, Alessandro ^f   Ascierto, Paolo Antonio ^g   Simeone, Ester ^g   Ferri, Massimo ^c  

^a Center for Cancer Prevention   (Italy)

^b OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d CINECA   (Italy)

^e ISTITUTO ONCOLOGICO ROMAGNOLO   (Italy)

^f EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^g NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^h Dermatology Department   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automatic diagnosis; Computer aided diagnosis; Dermoscopy; Digital epiluminescence microscopy; Melanocytic nevi; Melanoma

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNIFICATION RADIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 28444456955     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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