Lesion detection in demoscopy images with novel density-based and active contour approaches

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2010, Pages

  Mete, Mutlu ^a   Sirakov, Nikolay M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT; DENSITY-BASED ALGORITHM; DENSITY-BASED CLUSTERING; INTEGRATED APPROACH; OPTIMUM PARAMETERS; PIGMENTED SKIN LESIONS; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON;

ALGORITHMS; DERMATOLOGY; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

DIAGNOSIS;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MELANOMA; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SKIN TUMOR;

DERMOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77957697571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-23     Document Type: Article

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