A basis function feature-based approach for skin lesion discrimination in dermatology dermoscopy images

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 425-435

  Joe Stanley, R ^a   Stoecker, William V ^b   Moss, Randy H ^a   Rabinovitz, Harold S ^c   Cognetta Jr , Armand B ^d   Argenziano, Giuseppe ^e   Peter Soyer, H ^f  

^a University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

^b The Dermatology Center   (United States)

^c Skin Cancer and Associates   (United States)

^d Dermatology Associates of Tallahassee   (United States)

^e SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Basis function; Color; Fuzzy logic; Histogram; Image processing; Malignant melanoma

Indexed keywords

COLOR; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LAW ENFORCEMENT; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SET THEORY; SKIN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES; AUTOMATED MAPPINGS; BASIS FUNCTION; BASIS FUNCTIONS; BENIGN LESIONS; COLOR FEATURES; CORRELATION FEATURES; DATA SETS; DERMOSCOPY IMAGES; EXPERIMENTAL TESTS; HISTOGRAM; HISTOGRAM ANALYSES; LESION IMAGES; LUMINANCE HISTOGRAMS; MALIGNANT MELANOMA; MALIGNANT MELANOMATA; REGION OF INTERESTS; RELATIVE COLORS; SKIN LESIONS; TRAINING SETS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUZZY LOGIC; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUMINANCE; MELANOMA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKIN COLOR;

ALGORITHMS; COLORIMETRY; DERMOSCOPY; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 54049131233     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2008.00307.x     Document Type: Article

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