An improved Internet-based melanoma screening system with dermatologist-like tumor area extraction algorithm

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 566-579

  Iyatomi, Hitoshi ^a,b   Oka, Hiroshi ^c   Celebi, M Emre ^d   Hashimoto, Masahiro ^b   Hagiwara, Masafumi ^e   Tanaka, Masaru ^f   Ogawa, Koichi ^a  

^a HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Hiro Clinic   (Japan)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis (CAD); Dermoscopy; Melanoma; Neural network; Tumor extraction

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HEALTH; INTERNET; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALL OVER THE WORLD; COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS (CAD); CROSS VALIDATIONS; DERMOSCOPY; DERMOSCOPY IMAGES; EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; MELANOMA; NEURAL NETWORK; NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFIERS; REMOTE USERS; SCREENING SYSTEMS; TUMOR EXTRACTION; WEB SERVERS;

TUMORS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DERMOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNET; MASS SCREENING; MELANOMA; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REMOTE CONSULTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 49949112001     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2008.06.005     Document Type: Article

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