Detection of skin tumor boundaries in color images

Detection of skin tumor boundaries in color images

A simple and yet effective method for finding the borders of tumors is presented as an initial step towards the diagnosis of skin tumors from their color images. The method makes use of an adaptive color metric from the red, green, and blue planes that contains information for discriminating the tum...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on medical imaging 1993-09, Vol.12 (3), p.624-626
Hauptverfasser: Ercal, F., Moganti, M., Stoecker, W.V., Moss, R.H.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Biological and medical sciences
Cancer detection
Color
Data mining
Dermatology
Histograms
Humans
Image edge detection
Image segmentation
Investigative techniques, diagnostic techniques (general aspects)
Medical sciences
Object detection
Pathology. Cytology. Biochemistry. Spectrometry. Miscellaneous investigative techniques
Skin neoplasms
Working environment noise
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Zusammenfassung:A simple and yet effective method for finding the borders of tumors is presented as an initial step towards the diagnosis of skin tumors from their color images. The method makes use of an adaptive color metric from the red, green, and blue planes that contains information for discriminating the tumor from the background. Using this suitable coordinate transformation, the image is segmented. The tumor portion is then extracted from the segmented image and borders are drawn. Experimental results that verify the effectiveness of this approach are given.< >
ISSN:0278-0062
1558-254X
DOI:10.1109/42.241892