A Novel Method for Skin Lesion Segmentation

International Journal of Information, Security and Systems Management

مقاله 6، دوره 4، شماره 2، اسفند 2015، صفحه 458-466   

نوع مقاله: Research Paper

نویسندگان

Fatima Rashid Sheykhahmad¹؛ Navid Razmjooy^{* 2}؛ Mehdi Ramezani²

¹Young Researchers and Elite club, Electronic Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

²Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Tafresh, Tafresh, Iran

چکیده

Skin cancer has been the most usual and illustrates 50% of all new cancers detected each year. If they detected at an early stage, treatment can become simple and economically. Accurate skin lesion segmentation is important in automated early skin cancer detection and diagnosis systems. The aim of this study is to provide an effective approach to detect the skin lesion border on a purposed image. A novel method is proposed that combines the edge detection and the thresholding technique for skin lesions detection from skin region in an image. The distributions of edge and the proposed thresholding method provide a good discrimination of skin lesions. The evaluation of the proposed method was based on the comparison with the Otsu and Rosin segmentation results. The performance of the designed system is evaluated with 30 test images, and the experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed mole localization scheme.

کلیدواژه‌ها

Skin Cancer؛ Computer-aided lesion diagnosis؛ Segmentation؛ Hair Removal؛ Median filter؛ Boundary Detection