From colour to tissue histology: Physics based interpretation of images of pigmented skin lesions

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

Volumn 2488, Issue , 2002, Pages 730-738

  Claridge, Ela ^a   Cotton, Symon ^b   Hall, Per ^c   Moncrieff, Marc ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Astron Clinica Limited   (United Kingdom)

^c ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d WEST NORWICH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; DERMATOLOGY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; TISSUE;

CLINICAL STUDY; EPIDERMAL MELANIN; HISTOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; IMAGE FORMATION PROCESS; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; PHYSICS-BASED MODELING; PIGMENTED LESIONS; PIGMENTED SKIN LESIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84974663051     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45786-0_90     Document Type: Conference Paper

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