Use of color texture in determining the nature of melanocytic skin lesions - A qualitative and quantitative approach

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 419-427

  Manousaki, Aglaia G ^a,c,d   Manios, Andreas G ^a   Tsompanaki, Evgenia I ^b   Tosca, Androniki D ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^c Savvas Hospital   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Color texture; Fractal dimension; Lacunarity; Melanoma; Nevi; Three dimensional pseudoelevation

Indexed keywords

COLOR TEXTURE; LACUNARITY; MELANOMA; NEVI;

FRACTALS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SKIN;

TEXTURES;

ARTICLE; DIGITAL IMAGING; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOCYTE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKIN COLOR; SKIN DEFECT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLOR; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 32644490362     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2005.01.004     Document Type: Article

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