Detection of skin cancer by classification of Raman spectra

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1784-1793

  Sigurdsson, Sigurdur ^a   Philipsen, Peter Alshede ^b   Hansen, Lars Kai ^a   Larsen, Jan ^a   Gniadecka, Monika ^b   Christian Wulf, Hans ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Neural network classifier; Neural network visualization, pattern recognition; Skin cancer detection

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGENS; CELLS; DERMATOLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SKIN; TUMORS;

MALIGNANT MELANOMA; SKIN CANCER;

ONCOLOGY;

LIPID; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLASSIFICATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MELANOMA; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN CANCER; SKIN DEFECT; SPECTROMETER;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 4644309063     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.831538     Document Type: Article

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