Overview of advanced computer vision systems for skin lesions characterization

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 721-733

  Maglogiannis, Ilias ^a   Doukas, Charalampos N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL GREECE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Classification methods; Computer vision; Dermoscopy; Melanoma; Pattern analysis; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION METHODS; DERMOSCOPY; MELANOMA; PATTERN ANALYSIS; SKIN CANCER;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER VISION; DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PROCESSING; SKIN; TUMORS;

DERMATOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; SKIN TUMOR;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70349414488     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2009.2017529     Document Type: Review

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