Title :
Total dermoscopy score calculation using quantitative measurements in digital dermoscopy
Author :
Anagnostopoulos, Christos Nikolaos E. ; Vergados, Dimitrios D. ; Anagnostopoulos, Ioannis ; Mintzias, Panagiotis
Author_Institution :
Cultural Technol. & Commun. Dept., Univ. of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece
Abstract :
The main contributions of this paper are an automated approach for applying the ABCDE rules in a digital dermoscopy platform with fixed settings and a new registration method specially designed for aligning and comparing follow-up digital dermoscopy images in order to evaluate the evolution over time parameter E. Experimental evaluations of the registration method are reported for image pairs acquired during follow-up examinations.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; image registration; medical image processing; skin; ABCDE rules; digital dermoscopy platform; digital dermoscopy quantitative measurements; follow up digital dermoscopy images; image pairs; image registration method; total dermoscopy score calculation; Equations; Image color analysis; Image segmentation; Lesions; Malignant tumors; Skin; Total Dermoscopy Score; digital dermoscopy; image processing;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
DOI :
10.1109/EMBC.2014.6945176
