Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 33, Issue 1 , Pages 50-57 , January 2009

Fuzzy logic techniques for blotch feature evaluation in dermoscopy images

  • Azmath Khan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409-0040, United States
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  • Kapil Gupta

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409-0040, United States
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  • R.J. Stanley

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409-0040, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 573 341 6896; fax: +1 573 341 4532.
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  • William V. Stoecker

      Affiliations

    • Stoecker & Associates, 1702 E. 10th St., Rolla, MO 65401-4600, United States
    • Division of Dermatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Missouri Health Sciences Center, Columbia, MO 65212, United States
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  • Randy H. Moss

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409-0040, United States
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  • Giuseppe Argenziano

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
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  • H. Peter Soyer

      Affiliations

    • Queensland Institute of Dermatology, University of Queensland, Woolloongaba, Australia
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  • Harold S. Rabinovitz

      Affiliations

    • Skin and Cancer Associates, 201 NW 82nd Ave Ste 501, Plantation, FL 33324-1857, United States
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  • Armand B. Cognetta

      Affiliations

    • Division of Dermatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Missouri Health Sciences Center, Columbia, MO 65212, United States
    • Dermatology Associates, 1714 Mahan Center Blvd, Tallahassee, FL 32308, United States

Received 1 February 2008 ,Revised 21 September 2008 ,Accepted 9 October 2008.

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PII: S0895-6111(08)00103-1

doi: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2008.10.001

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