Imaging skin-lesions for detecting skin-cancer through image analysis

Author

Dhawan, Atam P. ; Kini, Prashanth ; Sicsu, Anne

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Cincinnati Univ., OH, USA

fYear

1989

Firstpage

388

Abstract

The results of imaging skin lesions using a clinical optical instrument developed for this purpose, called the Nevoscope, along with color and texture analyses of the digitized images of the lesion are presented. A description of the Nevoscope, a hand-held device that uses fiber optics to direct and focus an annular light source to the surrounding skin area of a lesion, is given. The instrument provides multiple views of the transilluminated lesion from several angles. The knowledge-based image analysis and the color and texture analysis procedure are also described

Keywords

biomedical equipment; optical instruments; patient diagnosis; picture processing; skin; Nevoscope; annular light source; clinical optical instrument; colour analysis; digitized images; fiber optics; hand-held device; image analysis; knowledge-based system; medical instrument; skin cancer detection; skin lesions imaging; texture analysis; transilluminated lesion; Focusing; Image analysis; Image color analysis; Image texture analysis; Instruments; Lesions; Light sources; Optical fibers; Optical imaging; Skin;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1989.95784

Filename

95784