A system for the detection of pigment network in dermoscopy images using directional filters

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2744-2754

  Barata, Catarina ^a   Marques, Jorge S ^a   Rozeira, Jorge ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL PEDRO HISPANO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Dermoscopic structures; dermoscopy; directional filters; pattern recognition; pigment network detection

Indexed keywords

ADABOOST ALGORITHM; AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS; CONNECTED COMPONENT ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; DERMOSCOPY; DERMOSCOPY IMAGES; DIRECTIONAL FILTERS; PRE-PROCESSING ALGORITHMS;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; ALGORITHMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

DIAGNOSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIRECTIONAL FILTER; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FILTER; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PIGMENT NETWORK; PIGMENTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DERMOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84866549932     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2209423     Document Type: Article

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