An improved border detection in dermoscopy images for density based clustering

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 10, 2011, Pages

  Suer, Sait ^a   Kockara, Sinan ^a   Mete, Mutlu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATED DETECTION; CLUSTERING PROCESS; DENSITY-BASED CLUSTERING; DENSITY-BASED CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; PIGMENTED SKIN LESIONS; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; REDUNDANT COMPUTATION;

COLOR; DERMATOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; MELANOMA; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; SKIN TUMOR;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DERMOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80054111663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-S10-S12     Document Type: Article

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