Development of a novel border detection method for melanocytic and non-melanocytic dermoscopy images

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5403-5406

  Norton, Kerri Ann ^a   Iyatomi, Hitoshi ^b   Celebi, M Emre ^c   Schaefer, Gerald ^d   Tanaka, Masaru ^e   Ogawa, Koichi ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dermoscopy; Non melanoma; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BORDER DETECTION; CLASSIFICATION PROCESS; DERMOSCOPY; DERMOSCOPY IMAGES; MELANOCYTIC LESION; MELANOCYTIC SKIN LESIONS; NON-MELANOMA; SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SKIN LESION;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; ONCOLOGY;

DERMATOLOGY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

DERMOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA;

EID: 78650811171     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626499     Document Type: Conference Paper

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