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Localization of Lesions in Dermoscopy Images Using Ensembles of Thresholding Methods

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Abstract

Dermoscopy is one of the major imaging modalities used in the diagnosis of melanoma and other pigmented skin lesions. Due to the difficulty and subjectivity of human interpretation, automated analysis of dermoscopy images has become an important research area. Border detection is often the first step in this analysis. In this article, we present an approximate lesion localization method that serves as a preprocessing step for detecting borders in dermoscopy images. In this method, first the black frame around the image is removed using an iterative algorithm. The approximate location of the lesion is then determined using an ensemble of thresholding algorithms. Experiments on a large set of images demonstrate that the presented method achieves both fast and accurate localization of lesions in dermoscopy images.

Keywords

  • Markov Random Field
  • Thresholding Method
  • Thresholding Algorithm
  • Computerize Medical Imaging
  • Border Detection

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA, USA

    M. Emre Celebi

  2. Department of Electrical Informatics, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan

    Hitoshi Iyatomi

  3. School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

    Gerald Schaefer

  4. Stoecker & Associates, Rolla, MO, USA

    William V. Stoecker

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  1. Department of Computer and Communication Science, Wakayama University, 930 Sakaedani, Wakayama-shi, 640 8510, Wakayama, Japan

    Toshikazu Wada

  2. Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Ilan University, No. 1, Sec. 1, Shen-Lung Rd., 26047, Yi-Lan, Taiwan, ROC

    Fay Huang

  3. Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing Sigma Center, 5003, No. 49, Zhichun Road, 100190, Beijing, PR China

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Celebi, M.E., Iyatomi, H., Schaefer, G., Stoecker, W.V. (2009). Localization of Lesions in Dermoscopy Images Using Ensembles of Thresholding Methods. In: Wada, T., Huang, F., Lin, S. (eds) Advances in Image and Video Technology. PSIVT 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5414. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92957-4_95

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