Automatic segmentation of dermoscopy images using self-generating neural networks seeded by genetic algorithm

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1012-1019

  Xie, Fengying ^a   Bovik, Alan C ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic segmentation; Dermoscopy images; Generic algorithms; Image clustering; Self generating neural network

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; DERMOSCOPY IMAGES; GENERIC ALGORITHM; IMAGE CLUSTERING; SELF-GENERATING NEURAL NETWORKS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84870343863     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2012.08.012     Document Type: Article

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