A coarse-to-fine approach for segmenting melanocytic skin lesions in standard camera images

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 684-693

  Cavalcanti, Pablo G ^a   Scharcanski, Jacob ^a  

^a Instituto de Informática   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Melanocytic skin lesion; Melanoma; Segmentation; Standard cameras

Indexed keywords

IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS; LESION SEGMENTATIONS; MELANOCYTIC SKIN LESIONS; MELANOMA; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; PROCESSING STEPS; STANDARD CAMERAS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

CAMERAS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; ONCOLOGY;

DERMATOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CAMERA; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MELANOCYTE; MELANOCYTIC SKIN LESION; MELANOMA; MORPHOLOGY; SKIN TUMOR;

COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS; MELANOCYTIC SKIN LESION; MELANOMA; SEGMENTATION; STANDARD CAMERAS;

HUMANS; MELANOMA; PHOTOGRAPHY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84885419169     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2013.08.010     Document Type: Article

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