The diagnostic evaluation of MelaFind multi-spectral objective computer vision system

Expert Opinion on Medical Diagnostics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 405-411

  Kupetsky, Erine A ^a   Ferris, Laura K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Dermatoscopy; Electrical impedance spectroscopy; Epidermal genetic information retrieval; MelaFind; Melanoma; Siascopy; Skin biopsy; Skin cancer screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DERMATOLOGIST; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EPIDERMAL GENETIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; MELANOMA; PERFORMANCE; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIASCOPY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; VISION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; IMPEDANCE; PROCEDURES; SPECTROSCOPY;

DERMOSCOPY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84879636681     PISSN: 17530059     EISSN: 17530067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/17530059.2013.785520     Document Type: Article

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