Diagnosis of skin cancer by correlation and complexity analyses of damaged DNA

• Main Authors: Namazi, Hamidreza, Kulish, Vladimir V., Delaviz, Fatemeh, Delaviz, Ali
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Skin cancer; DNA walk; Fractal dimension; The Hurst exponent; Damaged DNA
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81742; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39671
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Skin cancer is a common, low-grade cancerous (malignant) growth of the skin. It starts from cells that begin as normal skin cells and transform into those with the potential to reproduce in an out-of-control manner. Cancer develops when DNA, the molecule found in cells that encodes genetic informati...