Visual cues do not improve lesion ABC(D) grading

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7966, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zanottoa, Matteo ^a,b   Ballerini, Lucia ^b   Aldridge, Ben ^b   Fisher, Robert B ^b   Rees, Jonathan ^b  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; DESCRIPTORS; HIGH VARIABILITY; STANDARD DEFINITIONS; STATISTICAL TESTING; TEST IMAGES; VISUAL CUES; VISUAL REFERENCE;

ANCHORS; COLOR; DIAGNOSIS; EXPERIMENTS; RATING; STATISTICAL TESTS; TEXTURES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 79955795206     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.878115     Document Type: Conference Paper

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