Title :
Normalization techniques for psoriasis skin lesion analysis
Author :
Jailani, Rozita ; Hashim, Hadzli ; Taib, Mohd Nasir
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Electr. Eng., Univ. Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia
Abstract :
This paper presents a contribution in the field of image processing for dermatological of skin lesions. Psoriasis skin lesion´s images were digitally captured under controlled environment. These images were processed to produce color histograms to obtain color variegation metric. This paper shows that certain normalization technique can be employed to distinguish three types of psoriasis skin diseases infecting the Malaysian population.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; diseases; image colour analysis; medical image processing; skin; color histograms; color variegation metric; dermatology; image processing; normalization; psoriasis skin lesion analysis; skin diseases; Application specific processors; Digital control; Diseases; Equations; Frequency; Histograms; Image color analysis; Image processing; Lesions; Skin;
Conference_Titel :
Sensors and the International Conference on new Techniques in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Research, 2005 Asian Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9370-8
DOI :
10.1109/ASENSE.2005.1564527