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Towards the automatic detection of skin lesion shape asymmetry, color variegation and diameter in dermoscopic images

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  • Abder-Rahman Ali
  • Jingpeng Li
  • Sally Jane O’Shea

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Asymmetry, color variegation and diameter are considered strong indicators of malignant melanoma. The subjectivity inherent in the first two features and the fact that 10% of melanomas tend to be missed in the early diagnosis due to having a diameter less than 6mm, deem it necessary to develop an objective computer vision system to evaluate these criteria and aid in the early detection of melanoma which could eventually lead to a higher 5-year survival rate. This paper proposes an approach for evaluating the three criteria objectively, whereby we develop a measure to find asymmetry with the aid of a decision tree which we train on the extracted asymmetry measures and then use to predict the asymmetry of new skin lesion images. A range of colors that demonstrate the suspicious colors for the color variegation feature have been derived, and Feret’s diameter has been utilized to find the diameter of the skin lesion. The decision tree is 80% accurate in determining the asymmetry of skin lesions, and the number of suspicious colors and diameter values are objectively identified.

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  • Abder-Rahman Ali & Jingpeng Li & Sally Jane O’Shea, 2020. "Towards the automatic detection of skin lesion shape asymmetry, color variegation and diameter in dermoscopic images," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(6), pages 1-21, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0234352
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0234352
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