Fractals for malignancy detection in dermoscopy images

Proceedings - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ICHI 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 115-121

  Kockara, Sinan ^a   Mete, Mutlu ^b   Halic, Tansel ^a   Yuruk, Nurcan ^c   Ercan, Muhyeddin ^a   Lawrence, Ashley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary driven DBSCAN (BD DBSCAN); Classification; DBSCAN; Dermoscopy; Fractal; Fractal dimension; Malignant melanoma

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DERMATOLOGY; FRACTAL DIMENSION; FRACTALS; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION SCIENCE;

BOUNDARY DRIVEN DBSCAN (BD-DBSCAN); DBSCAN; DERMOSCOPY; DERMOSCOPY IMAGES; MALIGNANT LESION; MALIGNANT MELANOMA; MELANOCYTIC LESION; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84966309377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICHI.2015.21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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