A novel perceptually-oriented approach for skin tumor segmentation

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 8, Issue 3 A, 2012, Pages 1837-1848

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

^a NATIONAL TEXTILE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b Louisiana State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

CIECAM02 color appearance model; Image enhancement; Region based active contour model; Skin tumor segmentation; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR ALGORITHMS; CIECAM02; COLOR APPEARANCE MODELS; CONTRAST ADJUSTMENT; HOMOMORPHIC FILTERING; HUMAN PERCEPTION; INITIALIZATION STEP; INPAINTING; LEVEL SET; LOW CONTRAST; MULTIPLE OBJECTS; MULTIPLE REGIONS; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; REGION BASED ACTIVE CONTOURS; REGULARIZATION PARAMETERS; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION ERROR; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SKIN TUMOR; SKIN TUMOR SEGMENTATION; SPECULAR REFLECTIONS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; UNIFORM COLOR SPACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; COLOR COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FACE RECOGNITION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TUMORS; VISION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84857587140     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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