Simpler, faster, more accurate melanocytic lesion segmentation through MEDS

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 557-565

  Peruch, Francesco ^a   Bogo, Federica ^a   Bonazza, Michele ^a   Cappelleri, Vincenzo Maria ^a   Peserico, Enoch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dermatoscopy; melanoma; segmentation

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE PROCESS; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; DERMATOSCOPY; MELANOCYTIC LESION; MELANOMA; SINGLE PARAMETER; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNIQUES; THRESHOLDING;

BIOPHYSICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

DERMATOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DERMATOLOGIST; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; MIMICKING EXPERT DERMATOLOGIST SEGMENTATION; NOISE REDUCTION; SKIN EXAMINATION;

DERMOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84893242581     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2283803     Document Type: Article

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