Hair removal methods: A comparative study for dermoscopy images

Biomedical Signal Processing and Control

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 395-404

  Abbas, Qaisar ^a,b   Celebi, M E ^c   García, Irene Fondón ^d  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c Louisiana State University   (United States)

^d School of Engineering Path of Discovery s n   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dermoscopy; Fast marching; Hair segmentation; Image inpainting; Linear interpolation; Melanoma; PDE; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

DERMATOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERPOLATION; ONCOLOGY; TEXTURES;

DERMOSCOPY; FAST-MARCHING; IMAGE INPAINTING; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; MELANOMA; SKIN CANCERS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 80052491838     PISSN: 17468094     EISSN: 17468108     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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