Multispectral optical imaging of skin-lesions for detection of malignant melanomas

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 5352-5355

  Dhawan, Atam P ^a   D'Alessandro, Brian ^a   Patwardhan, Sachin ^a   Mullani, Nizar ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE; TRANSILLUMINATION;

COMPARE AND ANALYZE; MALIGNANT MELANOMA; MULTI-SPECTRAL OPTICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL IMAGING METHOD; OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM; SURFACE ILLUMINATION; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; VASCULAR ARCHITECTURE;

DERMATOLOGY;

EID: 77951020250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334045     Document Type: Conference Paper

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