Determination of optimal axes for skin lesion asymmetry quantification

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Clawson, K M ^a   Morrow, P J ^a   Scotney, B W ^a   McKenna, D J ^b   Dolan, O M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Dermoscopy; Fourier descriptors; Melanoma

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; CANCER.; COMPUTERISED SYSTEMS; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FOURIER DESCRIPTORS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MALIGNANT MELANOMAS; MELANOMA; MORTALITY RATES; SKIN LESIONS; SYMMETRY AXIS;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; HEALTH; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; TOOLS; TUMORS;

SKIN;

EID: 48149091100     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2007.4379190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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