Border detection of skin lesion images based on fuzzy c-means thresholding

3rd International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, WGEC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 777-780

  Supot, Sookpotharom ^a  

^a BANGKOK UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Fuzzy c means; Image segmentation; Malignant melanoma; Skin lesion

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE LOCATION; AUTOMATIC DIAGNOSIS; BORDER DETECTION; FUZZY C MEAN; FUZZY C-MEANS; IMAGE PREPROCESSING; MALIGNANT MELANOMA; MEDIAN FILTERING; PRE-PROCESSING; REMOVE NOISE; SKIN LESION; SKIN LESION IMAGES; THRESHOLDING; THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUES; TWO STAGE;

DERMATOLOGY; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ONCOLOGY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77950649164     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WGEC.2009.96     Document Type: Conference Paper

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