93 % and Specificity 88 %. Furthermore it shows that color descriptors perform better than texture ones in the detection of melanomas. KeywordsMelanoma diagnosisDermoscopyBag-of-features Feature extractionFeature analysisColor features Texture features Introduction Dermoscopy…
Fig. 1 Workflow of the proposed melanoma decision support framework Illumination Correction Preprocessing Most illumination correction algorithms are not specific to skin lesion photographs and can be applied to any…
is defined over an image , parameterized by an offset (, ), as: (1)The indexes and , and consequently the size of , are defined by the range of possible…
Fig. 1 Dermoscopy images of Caucasians and Chinese. a Dermoscopy images of Caucasians (https://b0112-web.k.hosei.ac.jp/DermoPerl/) b Dermoscopy images of Chinese Cooperating with the General Hospital of the Air Force of the…
Fig. 1 General melanoma diagnosis process Though data is the inalienable part of a computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system, the decision-making is of utmost importance, especially with the abundance of…
Fig. 1 Using dermatoscope. Source Ref. [13] The most used is, by far, the dermatoscopy, or epiluminescence microscopy, which consists on the exam of the skin through the utilization of an…
1 mm) is between 91.8 and 98.1 % [4]. Epiluminescence microscopy (ELM) is an in vivo, non invasive technique that has disclosed a new dimension of the clinical morphologic features of pigmented…
Fig. 1 One skin replica illuminated from top (a) and right hand side (b) At a micro scale the skin surface is not simply flat but able to be characterized…
Fig. 1 Example of local patterns Local patterns can be presented in the lesion with an irregular/regular or atypical/typical nature, implying malignancy or not. Figure 1 shows some examples of local…
(1) Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (2) School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada (3) Cancer Control Research Program, BC Cancer…
