Skin lesion segmentation using co-operative neural network edge detection and colour normalisation

Final Program and Abstract Book - 9th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine, ITAB 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Schaefer, Gerald ^a   Rajab, Maher I ^b   Celebi, M Emre ^c   Iyatomi, Hitoshi ^d  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UMM AL QURA UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c Louisiana State University   (United States)

^d HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colour enhancement; Dermoscopy; Image segmentation; Melanoma; Neural networks; Skin lesion analysis

Indexed keywords

COLOUR ENHANCEMENT; DATA SETS; DERMOSCOPY IMAGES; GROUND TRUTH; NEURAL NETWORK EDGE DETECTION; NORMALISATION; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY; SEGMENTATION PERFORMANCE; SKIN LESION; SKIN LESION IMAGES;

COLOR; DERMATOLOGY; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; ONCOLOGY;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 77949621477     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITAB.2009.5394389     Document Type: Conference Paper

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