Automatic skin lesion segmentation via iterative stochastic region merging

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 929-936

  Wong, Alexander ^a   Scharcanski, Jacob ^a,b   Fieguth, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

Iterative; lesion; region merging; skin cancer; stochastic

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE; LESION; REGION-MERGING; SKIN CANCER; STOCHASTIC;

DERMATOLOGY; MERGING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MELANOMA; METHODOLOGY; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN TUMOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 82155181618     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2011.2157829     Document Type: Article

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