Computer versus human diagnosis of melanoma: evaluation of the feasibility of an automated diagnostic system in a prospective clinical trial

Melanoma Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 180-184

  Dreiseitl, Stephan ^a,b   Binder, Michael ^c   Hable, Krispin ^a   Kittler, Harald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UPPER AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^b University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

^c Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKILL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TUMOR;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DERMOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67849094202     PISSN: 09608931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CMR.0b013e32832a1e41     Document Type: Article

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