Fuzzy logic techniques for blotch feature evaluation in dermoscopy images

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 50-57

  Khan, Azmath ^a   Gupta, Kapil ^a   Stanley, R J ^a   Stoecker, William V ^b,c   Moss, Randy H ^a   Argenziano, Giuseppe ^d   Soyer, H Peter ^e   Rabinovitz, Harold S ^f   Cognetta, Armand B ^c,g  

^a Architectural and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^b Stoecker and Associates   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f SKIN AND CANCER ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^g Dermatology Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric blotches; Dermoscopy; Fuzzy logic; Image analysis; Malignant melanoma; Neural network

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS; PHOTOGRAPHIC FILMS; SKIN;

ASYMMETRIC BLOTCHES; AUTOMATIC DETECTIONS; BENIGN LESIONS; DERMOSCOPY; DERMOSCOPY IMAGES; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACIES; FEATURE EVALUATIONS; FUZZY LOGIC TECHNIQUES; MALIGNANT MELANOMA; MALIGNANT MELANOMATA; NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFIERS; RELATIVE COLORS; SKIN LESION IMAGES;

FUZZY LOGIC;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUZZY LOGIC; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT;

COLORIMETRY; DERMOSCOPY; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEVUS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 57449101617     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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