A Methodological Approach to the Classification of Dermoscopy Images
Abstract
In this paper a methodological approach to the classification of pigmented skin lesions in dermoscopy images is presented. First, automatic border detection is performed to separate the lesion from the background skin. Shape features are then extracted from this border. For the extraction of color and texture related features, the image is divided into various clinically significant regions using the Euclidean distance transform. This feature data is fed into an optimization framework, which ranks the features using various feature selection algorithms and determines the optimal feature subset size according to the area under the ROC curve measure obtained from support vector machine classification. The issue of class imbalance is addressed using various sampling strategies, and the classifier generalization error is estimated using Monte Carlo cross validation. Experiments on a set of 564 images yielded a specificity of 92.34% and a sensitivity of 93.33%.
Recommended Citation
M. E. Celebi et al., "A Methodological Approach to the Classification of Dermoscopy Images," Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Elsevier, Jan 2007.
Department(s)
Chemistry
Second Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sponsor(s)
EDRA Interactive Atlas of Dermoscopy
James A. Schlipmann Melanoma Cancer Foundation
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Texas Workforce Commission
Keywords and Phrases
Machine learning; Skin -- Cancer
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
0895-6111
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2007 Elsevier, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Jan 2007