Computerized Medical Diagnosis of Melanocytic Lesions based on the ABCD approach

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer and is caused by the uncontrolled growth of atypical melanocytes. In recent decades, computer aided diagnosis is used to support medical professionals; however, there is still no globally accepted tool. In this context, similar to state-of-the-art we propose a system that receives a dermatoscopy image and provides a diagnostic if the lesion is benign or malignant. This tool is composed with next modules: Preprocessing, Segmentation, Feature Extraction, and Classification. Preprocessing involves the removal of hairs. Segmentation is to isolate the lesion. Feature extraction is considering the ABCD dermoscopy rule. The classification is performed by the Support Vector Machine. Experimental evidence indicates that the proposal has 90.63 % accuracy, 95 % sensitivity, and 83.33 % specificity on a data-set of 104 dermatoscopy images. These results are favorable considering the performance of diagnosis by traditional progress in the area of dermatology

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Main Authors:	Bareiro Paniagua,Laura Raquel, Leguizamón Correa,Deysi Natalia, Pinto-Roa,Diego P., Vázquez Noguera,José Luis, Salgueiro Toledo,Lizza A
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios en Informática 2016
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.edu.uy/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-50002016000200006
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