Evaluation of vermillion border descriptors and relevance vector machines discrimination model for making probabilistic predictions of solar cheilosis on digital lip photographs.

Journal: Computers in biology and medicine
Published Date: Apr 25, 2015

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Solar cheilosis (SC), a common precancer of the lower lip with a high potential to progress to invasive squamous cell carcinoma, presents with characteristic morphological vermillion-skin border alterations, like the border retraction.

Authors

  • Panagiota Spyridonos
    Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, University Campus, Ioannina 45110, Greece. Electronic address: pspyrid@cc.uoi.gr.
  • Georgios Gaitanis
    Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, University Campus, Ioannina 45110, Greece. Electronic address: Ggaitan@cc.uoi.gr.
  • Ioannis D Bassukas
    Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, University Campus, Ioannina 45110, Greece. Electronic address: ibassuka@cc.uoi.gr.
  • Margaret Tzaphlidou
    Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, University Campus, Ioannina 45110, Greece. Electronic address: mtzaphli@uoi.gr.

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