Full Description
Dermoscopy is a noninvasive skin imaging technique that uses optical magnification and either liquid immersion or cross-polarized lighting to make subsurface structures more easily visible when compared to conventional clinical images. It allows for the identification of dozens of morphological features that are particularly important in identifying malignant melanoma.
Dermoscopy Image Analysis summarizes the state of the art of the computerized analysis of dermoscopy images. The book begins by discussing the influence of color normalization on classification accuracy and then:
Investigates gray-world, max-RGB, and shades-of-gray color constancy algorithms, showing significant gains in sensitivity and specificity on a heterogeneous set of images
Proposes a new color space that highlights the distribution of underlying melanin and hemoglobin color pigments, leading to more accurate classification and border detection results
Determines that the latest border detection algorithms can achieve a level of agreement that is only slightly lower than the level of agreement among experienced dermatologists
Provides a comprehensive review of various methods for border detection, pigment network extraction, global pattern extraction, streak detection, and perceptually significant color detection
Details a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system for melanomas that features an inexpensive acquisition tool, clinically meaningful features, and interpretable classification feedback
Presents a highly scalable CAD system implemented in the MapReduce framework, a novel CAD system for melanomas, and an overview of dermatological image databases
Describes projects that made use of a publicly available database of dermoscopy images, which contains 200 high-quality images along with their medical annotations
Dermoscopy Image Analysis not only showcases recent advances but also explores future directions for this exciting subfield of medical image analysis, covering dermoscopy image analysis from preprocessing to classification.
Contents
Toward a Robust Analysis of Dermoscopy Images Acquired under Different Conditions. A Bioinspired Color Representation for Dermoscopy Image Analysis. Where's the Lesion? Variability in Human and Automated Segmentation of Dermoscopy Images of Melanocytic Skin Lesions. A State-of-the-Art Survey on Lesion Border Detection in Dermoscopy Images. Comparison of Image Processing Techniques for Reticular Pattern Recognition in Melanoma Detection. Global Pattern Classification in Dermoscopic Images. Streak Detection in Dermoscopic Color Images Using Localized Radial Flux of Principal Intensity Curvature. Dermoscopy Image Assessment Based on Perceptible Color Regions. Improved Skin Lesion Diagnostics for General Practice by Computer-Aided Diagnostics. Accurate and Scalable System for Automatic Detection of Malignant Melanoma. Early Detection of Melanoma in Dermoscopy of Skin Lesion Images by Computer Vision-Based System. From Dermoscopy to Mobile Teledermatology. PH2: A Public Database for the Analysis of Dermoscopic Images.
