Skin tumor area extraction using an improved dynamic programming approach

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 133-142

  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

Artifact removal; Borer detection; Computer aided diagnosis; Dermoscopy; Dynamic programming; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT REMOVAL; CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; COLOR SPACE; COLOR SPACE TRANSFORM; DERMOSCOPY; DERMOSCOPY IMAGES; EFFECTIVE SOLUTION; ERROR PROBABILITIES; GROUND TRUTH; PIGMENTED SKIN LESIONS; PRE-PROCESSING; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; SKIN CANCER; SKIN LESION; SKIN TUMOR; STATE-OF-THE-ART ALGORITHMS; STATISTICAL MEASURES; TUMOR AREAS;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DERMATOLOGY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; TUMORS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOLOGIST; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MELANOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN COLOR; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN TUMOR AREA EXTRACTION ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84859441037     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2011.00544.x     Document Type: Article

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