Unsupervised segmentation for digital dermoscopic images

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 401-407

  Møllersen, Kajsa ^a   Kirchesch, Herbert M ^b   Schopf, Thomas G ^a   Godtliebsen, Fred ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b Private Practice ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dermoscopy; Hair recognition; Melanoma; Segmentation; Skin lesions

Indexed keywords

DERMOSCOPY; HAIR RECOGNITION; MELANOMA; SEGMENTATION; SKIN LESIONS;

ALGORITHMS; DERMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; ONCOLOGY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL IMAGING; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; KERNEL METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; SKIN DEFECT;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DERMOSCOPY; HAIR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78650437692     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2010.00455.x     Document Type: Article

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