Segmentation of Melanoma Skin Lesions Using Anisotropic Diffusion and Adaptive Thresholding
Segmentation is the first and most important task in the diagnosis of skin cancer using computer-aided systems and due to complex structure of skin lesions, the automated process may lead to a completely different diagnosis. In this paper, a novel segmentation method of skin lesions is proposed whic...
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my.unimas.ir.219252021-12-04T04:11:36Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/21925/ Segmentation of Melanoma Skin Lesions Using Anisotropic Diffusion and Adaptive Thresholding Adil H., Khan Ghazanfar, Latif Dayang Nurfatimah, Binti Awang Iskandar Jaafar, Alghazo Mohsin, Butt QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science R Medicine (General) Segmentation is the first and most important task in the diagnosis of skin cancer using computer-aided systems and due to complex structure of skin lesions, the automated process may lead to a completely different diagnosis. In this paper, a novel segmentation method of skin lesions is proposed which is both effective and simple to implement. Smoothing of skin lesions in original image plays a pivotal role to secure an accurate segmented image. Anisotropic Diffusion Filter (ADF) is used in the initial stage to smooth images with preserved edges. Adaptive thresholding is then applied to segment the skin lesion of the image by binarizing it. The morphological operations are applied for further enhancement and final segmented image is obtained by applying proposed boundary conditions in which objects are selected on basis of distance. The proposed technique is tested on over 300 images and averaged results are compared with existing methods like L-SRM, Otsu-R, Otsu-RGB and TDLS. The proposed method achieved an average accuracy of 96.6%. Visual results for selected images also depicted better performance of proposed method even in the presence of bad illumination and rough skin lesions in the image. 2018 Proceeding PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/21925/1/Segmentation.pdf Adil H., Khan and Ghazanfar, Latif and Dayang Nurfatimah, Binti Awang Iskandar and Jaafar, Alghazo and Mohsin, Butt (2018) Segmentation of Melanoma Skin Lesions Using Anisotropic Diffusion and Adaptive Thresholding. In: Proceedings of the 2018 8th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Technology, 23-25 April 2018, Bali, Indonesia. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3208955.3208961 DOI: 10.1145/3208955.3208961 |
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Segmentation is the first and most important task in the diagnosis of skin cancer using computer-aided systems and due to complex structure of skin lesions, the automated process may lead to a completely different diagnosis. In this paper, a novel segmentation method of skin lesions is proposed which is both effective and simple to implement. Smoothing of skin lesions in original image plays a pivotal role to secure an accurate segmented image. Anisotropic Diffusion Filter (ADF) is used in the initial stage to smooth images with preserved edges. Adaptive thresholding is then applied to segment the skin lesion of the image by binarizing it. The morphological operations are applied for further enhancement and final segmented image is obtained by applying proposed boundary conditions in which objects are selected on basis of distance. The proposed technique is tested on over 300 images and averaged results are compared with existing methods like L-SRM, Otsu-R, Otsu-RGB and TDLS. The proposed method achieved an average accuracy of 96.6%. Visual results for selected images also depicted better performance of proposed method even in the presence of bad illumination and rough skin lesions in the image. |
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Segmentation of Melanoma Skin Lesions Using Anisotropic Diffusion and Adaptive Thresholding |
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Segmentation of Melanoma Skin Lesions Using Anisotropic Diffusion and Adaptive Thresholding |
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Segmentation of Melanoma Skin Lesions Using Anisotropic Diffusion and Adaptive Thresholding |
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Segmentation of Melanoma Skin Lesions Using Anisotropic Diffusion and Adaptive Thresholding |
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segmentation of melanoma skin lesions using anisotropic diffusion and adaptive thresholding |
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