Determining the asymmetry of skin lesion with fuzzy borders

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

doi:10.1016/j.compbiomed.2003.11.004

Determining the asymmetry of skin lesion with fuzzy borders

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

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Abstract

It is highly desirable to identify malignant melanoma, a common cancer, at an early stage. One important clinical feature of this cancer is asymmetrical skin lesions. In this paper, we propose an adaptive fuzzy approach that uses symmetric distance (SD) to measure lesions with fuzzy borders. The use of a number of SD variations and the adoption of a backpropagation neural network enhances the discriminative power of the approach. Digitized images from the Lesion Clinic in Vancouver, Canada, demonstrate the accurate classification of asymmetric lesions at around 80%.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	103-120
Number of pages	18
Journal	Computers in Biology and Medicine
Volume	35
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2003.11.004
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2005

Keywords

Asymmetry measurement
Medical imaging
Melanoma
Skin lesion

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Computer Science Applications
Health Informatics

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