MHealth App for Risk Assessment of Pigmented and Nonpigmented Skin Lesions - A Study on Sensitivity and Specificity in Detecting Malignancy

Telemedicine and e-Health

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 948-954

  Thissen, Monique ^a,b,c,d   Udrea, Andreea ^e   Hacking, Michelle ^a   Von Braunmuehl, Tanja ^f   Ruzicka, Thomas ^f  

^a CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^f LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

automatic skin lesion risk assessment; fractal analysis; mHealth app; skin cancer

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DERMATOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; FRACTALS; HEALTH CARE; MHEALTH; ONCOLOGY; SMARTPHONES;

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS; NONMELANOMA SKIN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN CANCERS; SKIN LESION; SMART-PHONE APPLICATIONS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ALGORITHM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MELANOMA; MOBILE APPLICATION; NETHERLANDS; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN TUMOR; SMARTPHONE;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; NETHERLANDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SMARTPHONE;

EID: 85038376857     PISSN: 15305627     EISSN: 15563669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2016.0259     Document Type: Article

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