A survey on recent computer-aided diagnosis of Melanoma

This paper reviews the earlier period and current technologies for skin cancer detections. Malignant melanoma is one of the most common and the deadliest type of skin cancer. Skin cancer is commonly known as Melanoma. Skin Cancers are of two types- Benign and Malignant Melanoma. Melanoma can be cured completely if it is detected early. Both benign and malignant melanoma resembles similar in appearance at the initial stages. So it is difficult to differentiate both. This is a main problem with the early skin cancer detection. Only an expert dermatologist can classify which one is benign and which one is malignant. This work focuses on developing a new computer- aided diagnosis method for melanoma. With the aim of improving some of existing methods and developing new techniques to facilitate exact, prompt and dependable computer- based diagnosis of melanoma, this makes contributions in various stages of a computer-aided diagnostic system of melanoma; namely, image segmentation or border detection, feature extraction, feature selection, and classification.