Pigmented skin lesion segmentation on macroscopic images

International Conference Image and Vision Computing New Zealand

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Cavalcanti, Pablo G ^a   Yari, Yessenia ^a   Scharcanski, Jacob ^a  

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

Author keywords

Dermatological Images; Image Segmentation; Melanoma

Indexed keywords

CORRECTED IMAGE; DATA SETS; DERMATOLOGICAL IMAGES; DERMOSCOPY; DERMOSCOPY IMAGES; MELANOMA; PIGMENTED SKIN LESIONS; SEGMENTATION ERROR; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SKIN LESION; STANDARD CAMERAS;

DERMATOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84858992685     PISSN: 21512191     EISSN: 21512205     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IVCNZ.2010.6148845     Document Type: Conference Paper

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