Determining the asymmetries of skin lesions with fuzzy borders

Vincent To Yee Ng; Tim Lee; Benny Y.M. Fung

doi:10.1109/BIBE.2003.1188955

Determining the asymmetries of skin lesions with fuzzy borders

Vincent To Yee Ng, Tim Lee, Benny Y.M. Fung

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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Abstract

Malignant melanoma is a popular cancer among youth; it is desirable to have a fast and convenience way to determine this disease in its early stage. One of the clinical features in diagnosis is related to the shape of lesions. In previous studies, circularity is commonly used as the asymmetric measurement of skin lesions. However, this measurement depends very much on the accuracy of the segmentation result. In this paper, we present an artificial neural network model to improve the measurements of the asymmetries of lesions that may have fuzzy borders. The main idea is enhancing the symmetric distant (eSD) with a number of variations. Results from experiments, which use the digitized images from the Lesion Clinic in Vancouver, Canada have shown the good discriminating power of the neural network model.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 3rd IEEE Symposium on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, BIBE 2003
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	223-230
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	0769519075, 9780769519074
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2003.1188955
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2003
Event	3rd IEEE Symposium on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, BIBE 2003 - Bethesda, United States Duration: 10 Mar 2003 → 12 Mar 2003

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Conference	3rd IEEE Symposium on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, BIBE 2003
Country/Territory	United States
City	Bethesda
Period	10/03/03 → 12/03/03

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Computer Networks and Communications
Signal Processing
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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