Correlation of image analysis features and visual morphology in melanocytic skin tumours using in vivo confocal laser scanning microscopy

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 237-241

  Lorber, Andrea ^a   Wiltgen, Marco ^a   Hofmann Wellenhof, Rainer ^a   Koller, Silvia ^a   Weger, Wolfgang ^a   Ahlgrimm Siess, Verena ^a   Smolle, Josef ^a   Gerger, Armin ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Classification procedure; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Image analysis; Melanocytic skin tumours

Indexed keywords

BENIGN NEVUS; CART ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION PROCEDURE; CLASSIFICATION TREES; CLASSIFICATION-TREE ANALYSIS; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; HUMAN EYES; IMAGING TOOLS; IN-VIVO; KERATINOCYTE; MELANOCYTIC SKIN TUMOURS; NON-INVASIVE; SKIN CANCERS; VISUAL EXAMINATIONS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MORPHOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; SCANNING; SKIN; TUMORS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOARCHITECTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; KERATINOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN TUMOR; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; WAVEFORM;

DERMOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEVUS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 65249135516     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2009.00361.x     Document Type: Article

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