PDE-based unsupervised repair of hair-occluded information in dermoscopy images of melanoma

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 275-282

  Xie, Feng Ying ^a   Qin, Shi Yin ^a   Jiang, Zhi Guo ^a   Meng, Ru Song ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AIR FORCE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Closing based top hat operator; Elongate function; Image inpainting; Malignant melanoma; PDE

Indexed keywords

CLOSING-BASED TOP-HAT OPERATOR; ELONGATE FUNCTION; IMAGE INPAINTING; MALIGNANT MELANOMA; PDE;

AIRCRAFT ENGINES; DIAGNOSIS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; REPAIR; SKIN;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HAIR; IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MELANOMA; MORPHOLOGY; OPERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DERMOSCOPY; HAIR; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 62949199064     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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