Segmentation of skin lesions using level set method

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8641 LNCS, Issue , 2014, Pages 228-233

  Ma, Zhen ^a   Tavares, João Manuel R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

image segmentation; level set method; medical imaging; melanoma

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DERMATOLOGY; DROP BREAKUP; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CLINICAL ROUTINE; COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM; DERMOSCOPIC IMAGES; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; LEVEL SET METHOD; MELANOMA; NOVEL ALGORITHM; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84905818079     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09994-1_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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