Colour and contrast enhancement for improved skin lesion segmentation

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 99-104

  Schaefer, Gerald ^a   Rajab, Maher I ^b   Emre Celebi, M ^c   Iyatomi, Hitoshi ^d  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UMM AL QURA UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colour normalisation; Contrast enhancement; Dermoscopy; Melanoma; Segmentation; Skin cancer; Skin lesion

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DERMOSCOPY; MELANOMA; NORMALISATION; SEGMENTATION; SKIN CANCER; SKIN LESION;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; DERMATOLOGY; DISEASES; EDGE DETECTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; ONCOLOGY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COLOR; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HAIR; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TUMOR;

COLORIMETRY; DERMOSCOPY; FILTRATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79951512445     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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