An analysis on the reliability of a series of texture and shape descriptors for melanoma diagnosis

UPB Scientific Bulletin, Series C: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 23-34

  Udrea, Andreea ^a   Popescu, Dumitru ^a   Miron, Cristian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Conventional images analysis; Melanoma diagnosis; Second order statistics texture descriptors; Shape descriptors

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL DIMENSION; ONCOLOGY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION; CONTOUR ASYMMETRIES; CONVENTIONAL IMAGES ANALYSIS; MORTALITY RATE; SECOND ORDER STATISTICS; SHAPE DESCRIPTORS; SHAPE FEATURES; TEXTURE DESCRIPTORS;

DERMATOLOGY;

EID: 84974815706     PISSN: 22863540     EISSN: 22863559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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