A Feature-Preserving Hair Removal Algorithm for Dermoscopy Images

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Abbas, Qaisar ^a,b   Garcia, Irene Fondón ^c   Emre Celebi, M ^d   Ahmad, Waqar ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TEXTILE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b Center for Biomedical imaging and Bioinformatics   (Pakistan)

^c School of Engineering Path of Discovery s n   (Spain)

^d Louisiana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided detection; Derivative of Gaussian; Dermoscopy; Exemplar based inpainting; Fast marching; Hair segmentation; Image inpainting; Melanoma

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; DERMOSCOPY; FAST-MARCHING; GAUSSIANS; IMAGE INPAINTING; INPAINTING; MELANOMA;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DERMATOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ONCOLOGY; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RESTORATION; TEXTURES;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DERMATOLOGIST; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; HAIR COLOR; HAIR REMOVAL ALGORITHM; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SKIN DEFECT;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HAIR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LENTIGO; MELANOMA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEVUS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84872158714     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2011.00603.x     Document Type: Article

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