Skin lesion segmentation using an improved snake model

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1974-1977

  Zhou, Huiyu ^a   Schaefer, Gerald ^b   Celebi, M Emre ^c   Iyatomi, Hitoshi ^d   Norton, Kerri Ann ^e   Liu, Tangwei ^f   Lin, Faquan ^f  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DERMOSCOPY; DERMOSCOPY IMAGES; EXTERNAL ENERGY; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; MEAN SHIFT; MEDICAL IMAGERY; OVER SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SKIN LESION; SNAKE ALGORITHM; SNAKE MODEL;

DERMATOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

DIAGNOSIS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE MODEL; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN; SNAKE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DERMOSCOPY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN; SNAKES;

EID: 78650818324     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627556     Document Type: Conference Paper

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