Background/purpose-Clinically, it is difficult to differentiate the early stage of malignant melanoma and certain benign skin lesions due to similarity in appearance. Our research uses image analysis of clinical skin images and relative color-based pattern recognition techniques to enhance the images and improve differentiation of these lesions.

A web site for computer imaging education is described. The CVIPtools computer imaging environment is utilized as the platform. CVIPtools illustrates principles of computer imaging and enables the rapid development of complex algorithms. The web site provides examples of the many different imaging tools and algorithms for image enhancement, restoration, compression, and analysis. The web site also describes how these functions can be easily accessed from the CVIPtools graphical user interface. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 8: 61–71, 2000

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