DocumentCode
965756
Title
Detection of skin tumor boundaries in color images
Author
Ercal, F. ; Moganti, M. ; Stoecker, W.V. ; Moss, R.H.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Missouri Univ., Rolla, MO, USA
Volume
12
Issue
3
fYear
1993
fDate
9/1/1993 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
624
Lastpage
626
Abstract
A simple and yet effective method for finding the borders of tumors is presented as an initial step towards the diagnosis of skin tumors from their color images. The method makes use of an adaptive color metric from the red, green, and blue planes that contains information for discriminating the tumor from the background. Using this suitable coordinate transformation, the image is segmented. The tumor portion is then extracted from the segmented image and borders are drawn. Experimental results that verify the effectiveness of this approach are given
Keywords
medical image processing; photographic applications; skin; 35 mm colour photographic slides; adaptive color metric; color images; coordinate transformation; medical diagnostic technique; segmented image; skin tumor boundaries detection; Cancer detection; Color; Data mining; Histograms; Humans; Image edge detection; Image segmentation; Object detection; Skin neoplasms; Working environment noise;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0278-0062
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/42.241892
Filename
241892
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