Improving dermoscopy image classification using color constancy

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1146-1152

  Barata, Catarina ^a   Celebi, M Emre ^b   Marques, Jorge S ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b Louisiana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Color constancy; color features; computer aided diagnosis system; dermoscopy images; image color normalization

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COLOR COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

COLOR CONSTANCY; COLOR FEATURES; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS SYSTEMS; DERMOSCOPY IMAGES; IMAGE COLOR;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; MELANOMA; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKIN;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DERMOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; SKIN;

EID: 84929377641     PISSN: 21682194     EISSN: 21682208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2014.2336473     Document Type: Article

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