Automatic Differential Diagnosis of Melanocytic Skin Tumors Using Ultrasound Data

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2834-2843

  Andrėkutė, Kristina ^a   Linkevičiūtė, Gintarė ^b   Raišutis, Renaldas ^a   Valiukevičienė, Skaidra ^b   Makštienė, Jurgita ^b  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

^b LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Automatic diagnosis; Malignant melanoma; Radiofrequency signal; Spectral analysis; Tissue characterization; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DERMATOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

AUTOMATIC DIAGNOSIS; AUTOMATIC DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT; HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUNDS; LINEAR SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; MALIGNANT MELANOMA; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TUMOR; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; ULTRASOUND; VERY ELDERLY; ADOLESCENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENTED NEVUS; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84994868781     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2016.07.026     Document Type: Article

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