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A Computational Approach to Pertinent Feature Extraction for Diagnosis of Melanoma Skin Lesion

Authors: Sharmin Majumder, Muhammad Ahsan Ullah

Published in: Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis | Issue 3/2019

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Melanoma, starts growing in melanocytes, is less common but more serious and aggressive than any other types of skin cancers found in human. Melanoma skin cancer can be completely curable if it is diagnosed and treated in an early stage. Biopsy is a confirmation test of melanoma skin cancer which is invasive, time consuming, costly and painful. To prevent this problem, research regarding computerized analysis of skin cancer from dermoscopy images has become increasingly popular for last few years. In this research, we extract the pertinent features from dermoscopy images related to shape, size and color properties based on ABCD rule. Although ABCD features were used before, these features were mostly calculated to reflect asymmetry, compactness index as border irregularity, color variegation and average diameter. This paper proposes one asymmetry feature, three border irregularity features, one color feature and two diameter features as distinctive and pertinent. Implementation of our approach indicates that each of these proposed features is able to detect melanoma lesions with over 72% accuracy individually and the overall diagnostic system achieves 98% classification accuracy with 97.5% sensitivity and 98.75% specificity. Therefore, this method could assist dermatologist for making decision clinically.

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Title: A Computational Approach to Pertinent Feature Extraction for Diagnosis of Melanoma Skin Lesion
Authors: Sharmin Majumder
Muhammad Ahsan Ullah
Publication date: 01-07-2019
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing
Published in: Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis / Issue 3/2019
Print ISSN: 1054-6618
Electronic ISSN: 1555-6212
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1054661819030131

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