Determining the asymmetry of skin lesion with fuzzy borders

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 103-120

  Ng, Vincent T Y ^a   Fung, Benny Y M ^a   Lee, Tim K ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymmetry measurement; Medical imaging; Melanoma; Skin lesion

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; DISEASES; FUZZY SETS; NEURAL NETWORKS; TUMORS;

BACKPROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS; MELANOMA; SYMMETRIC DISTANCE (SD);

DERMATITIS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN MANIFESTATION;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEVUS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 9644282965     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2003.11.004     Document Type: Article

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