Differentiation Between Benign and Malignant Skin Tumors by Image Analysis, Neural Networks, and Other Methods of Machine Learning

doi:10.3109/9781420005516-25

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Differentiation Between Benign and Malignant Skin Tumors by Image Analysis, Neural Networks, and Other Methods of Machine Learning

ABSTRACT

Malignant melanoma of the skin is the fastest growing cancer in the Western world, with incidence rates in Caucasian populations increasing between 3% and 7% in recent years. This means that incidence rates will double every 10 to 25 years (1).