Remote assessment of acne: The use of acne grading tools to evaluate digital skin images

Telemedicine and e-Health

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 426-430

  Bergman, Hagit ^a,b,c   Tsai, Kenneth Y ^b,c   Seo, Su Jean ^b,c   Kvedar, Joseph C ^a,b,c   Watson, Alice J ^a,b,c,d  

^a PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acne assessment; Digital skin images; Grading tools

Indexed keywords

DERMATOLOGY; GRADING; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY;

ACNE ASSESSMENT; ASSESSMENT MEASURES; CLINICAL ASSESSMENTS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; INTER-RATER AGREEMENTS; INTER-RATER RELIABILITIES; REMOTE ASSESSMENT; SKIN IMAGES;

IMAGE QUALITY;

ACNE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIGITAL IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY; TOTAL INFLAMMATORY LESION COUNT;

EID: 67650819394     PISSN: 15305627     EISSN: 15563669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2008.0128     Document Type: Article

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