Scleroderma capillary pattern identification using texture descriptors and ensemble classification

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 5473-5476

  Schaefer, Gerald ^a   Krawczyk, Bartosz ^b   Doshi, Niraj P ^a   Merla, Arcangelo ^c  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED METHODS; BLOOD CAPILLARY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; ENSEMBLE CLASSIFICATION; MANUAL INSPECTION; PATTERN IDENTIFICATION; TEXTURE DESCRIPTORS; TEXTURE FEATURES;

CAPILLARITY; COLLAGEN; MICROCIRCULATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

DIAGNOSIS;

ANGIOSCOPY; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CAPILLARY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NAIL; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; VASCULARIZATION;

CAPILLARIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPIC ANGIOSCOPY; NAILS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RAYNAUD DISEASE;

EID: 84886527333     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610788     Document Type: Conference Paper

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