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An Efficient Melanoma Diagnosis Approach Using Integrated HMF Multi-Atlas Map Based Segmentation

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Melanoma is a life threading disease when it grows outside the corium layer of the skin. Mortality rates of the Melanoma cases are maximum among the skin cancer patients. The cost required for the treatment of advanced melanoma cases is very high and the survival rate is low. Numerous computerized dermoscopy systems are developed based on the combination of shape, texture and color features to facilitate early diagnosis of melanoma. The availability and cost of the dermoscopic imaging system is still an issue. To mitigate this issue, this paper presented an integrated segmentation and Third Dimensional (3D) feature extraction approach for the accurate diagnosis of melanoma. A multi-atlas method is applied for the image segmentation. The patch-based label fusion model is expressed in a Bayesian framework to improve the segmentation accuracy. A depth map is obtained from the Two-dimensional (2D) dermoscopic image for reconstructing the 3D skin lesion represented as structure tensors. The 3D shape features including the relative depth features are obtained. Streaks are the significant morphological terms of the melanoma in the radial growth phase. The proposed method yields maximum segmentation accuracy, sensibility, specificity and minimum cost function than the existing segmentation technique and classifier.

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Roja Ramani, D., Ranjani, S.S. An Efficient Melanoma Diagnosis Approach Using Integrated HMF Multi-Atlas Map Based Segmentation. J Med Syst 43, 225 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-019-1315-4

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