Skin Image Segmentation Using a Self-Organizing Map and Genetic Algorithms

IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems

Volumn 123, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2056-2062

  Galda, Harald ^a   Tamaki, Hisashi ^a   Kitamura, Shinzo ^a   Murao, Hajime ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cluster similarity; color image segmentation; dermoscopy; genetic algorithms; self organizing maps

Indexed keywords

EID: 5444229822     PISSN: 03854221     EISSN: 13488155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1541/ieejeiss.123.2056     Document Type: Article

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