An automatic based nonlinear diffusion equations scheme for skin lesion segmentation

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 251-261

  Barcelos, C A Z ^a   Pires, V B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Canny edge detector; Edges detection; Malignant melanoma; Nonlinear diffusion equations; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

CANNY EDGE DETECTOR; EDGES DETECTION; MALIGNANT MELANOMA; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; SKIN CANCER;

DERMATOLOGY; DETECTORS; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SKIN;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 68049127804     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2009.04.081     Document Type: Article

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