Differentiation of melanoma from benign mimics using the relative-color method

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 297-304

  LeAnder, Robert ^a   Chindam, Prathibha ^a   Das, Moumita ^a   Umbaugh, Scott E ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Feature extraction; Malignant melanoma; Pattern classification; Reed Spitz nevi; Relative color images; Seborrheic keratoses; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COLOR; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DERMATOLOGY; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ONCOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; TUMORS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

AUTOMATED ASSISTANCE; AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CLASSIFICATION RATES; COLOR FEATURE EXTRACTION; COLOR IMAGES; COLOR SEGMENTATION; FEATURE SPACE; FEATURE VECTORS; IN-SITU; INNER PRODUCT; MALIGNANT MELANOMA; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING; NEAREST-NEIGHBORS; PATTERN CLASSIFICATION; PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE; PRESCREENING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SKIN LESION; SKIN TUMOR; STRUCTURAL DETAILS; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR SEGMENTATION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER SCREENING; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL IMAGING; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; JUVENILE MELANOMA; MELANOMA; SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLORIMETRY; DEVICES; HAIR; KERATOSIS, SEBORRHEIC; NEOPLASMS; NEVUS, EPITHELIOID AND SPINDLE CELL; PROCEDURES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; COLORIMETRY; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HAIR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KERATOSIS, SEBORRHEIC; MELANOMA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; NEVUS, EPITHELIOID AND SPINDLE CELL; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 77955148982     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2010.00429.x     Document Type: Article

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