Where's the naevus? Inter-operator variability in the localization of melanocytic lesion border

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 311-315

  Fortina, Anna Belloni ^a   Peserico, Enoch ^a   Silletti, Alberto ^a   Zattra, Edoardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dermatoscopy; Epidemiology; Inter operator; Melanocytic; Naevus; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; BLIND EVALUATIONS; DERMATOSCOPY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; HUMAN OPERATOR; INTER-OPERATOR; MELANOCYTIC; MELANOCYTIC LESION; NAEVUS; QUANTITATIVE FEATURES; REPLICABILITY;

DERMATOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DERMATOLOGIST; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SKIN LESION SEGMENTATION;

DERMOSCOPY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84863557347     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2011.00572.x     Document Type: Article

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