Automatic detection of blue-white veil and related structures in dermoscopy images

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 670-677

  Celebi, M Emre ^a   Iyatomi, Hitoshi ^b   Stoecker, William V ^c   Moss, Randy H ^d   Rabinovitz, Harold S ^e   Argenziano, Giuseppe ^f   Soyer, H Peter ^g  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Stoecker and Associates   (United States)

^d University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blue white veil; Contextual pixel classification; Decision tree classifier; Dermoscopy; Melanoma

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; DECISION THEORY; DECISION TREES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PIXELS;

BLUE-WHITE VEIL; CONTEXTUAL PIXEL CLASSIFICATION; DECISION TREE CLASSIFIER; DERMOSCOPY; MELANOMA;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN CANCER;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION TREES; DERMATOLOGY; DERMOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; NEVUS, BLUE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 55649105845     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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