Lesion border detection in Buruli ulcer images

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 5380-5383

  Hu, Rui ^a   Queen, Courtney M ^b   Zouridakis, George ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORDER DETECTION; COLOR COMPONENT; COLOR SPACE; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; INITIAL CONTOUR; LEVEL SET SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION SCHEME; THRESHOLDING; TROPICAL DISEASE; WHITE-LIGHT ILLUMINATION;

DISEASES; NUMERICAL METHODS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BURULI ULCER; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY;

AUTOMATION; BURULI ULCER; HUMANS;

EID: 84870820670     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6347210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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