Automated measurement of skin prick tests: An advance towards exact calculation of wheal size

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 119-124

  Wöhrl, Stefan ^a   Vigl, Kornelia ^a   Binder, Michael ^a   Stingl, Georg ^a   Prinz, Michael ^b  

^a Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Allergy; Diagnosis; Methodology; Morphometry; Wheal size

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PRICK TEST; RELIABILITY; URTICARIA; ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; METHODOLOGY; SKIN TEST; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; FEMALE; HISTAMINE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; SKIN TESTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33645130749     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: 16000625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.2006.00388.x     Document Type: Article

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