Automated prescreening of pigmented skin lesions using standard cameras

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 481-491

  Cavalcanti, Pablo G ^a   Scharcanski, Jacob ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Classification; Computer aided diagnosis; Melanoma; Pigmented skin lesion; Standard cameras

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DATA SETS; IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS; LESION CLASSIFICATION; MELANOMA; PIGMENTED SKIN LESIONS; PRESCREENING; PROCESSING STEPS; SHADING EFFECT; SKIN LESION IMAGES; STANDARD CAMERAS;

CAMERAS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ONCOLOGY; STANDARDS;

DERMATOLOGY;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CAMERA; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; JUVENILE MELANOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PHOTOGRAPHY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 79960055874     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: 18790771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2011.02.007     Document Type: Article

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