Body surface area measurement and soft clustering for PASI area assessment

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4398-4401

  Hani, Ahmad Fadzil M ^a   Prakasa, Esa ^a   Nugroho, Hermawan ^a   Affandi, Azura M ^b   Hussein, Suraiya H ^b,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

^b HOSPITAL KUALA LUMPUR   (Malaysia)

^c Damansara Specialist Hospital   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

body surface area; fuzzy c means clustering; lesion area assessment; psoriasis

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS SYSTEM; BODY SURFACE; FUZZY C MEANS CLUSTERING; FUZZY C-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; GOLD STANDARDS; HIGH RELIABILITY; IMAGING METHOD; KAPPA COEFFICIENT; LESION AREA ASSESSMENT; LOWER LIMB; ON-BODY; PSORIASIS; SEVERITY INDEX; SKIN DISORDERS; SOFT CLUSTERING; UPPER LIMBS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; FUZZY CLUSTERING;

DERMATOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BODY SURFACE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PSORIASIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; EVALUATION;

ALGORITHMS; BODY SURFACE AREA; DERMOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PSORIASIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880953891     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346941     Document Type: Conference Paper

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