• DocumentCode
    2403228
  • Title

    Multilevel thresholding for segmentation of pigmented skin lesions

  • Author

    Humayun, Jawad ; Malik, Aamir Saeed ; Kamel, Nidal

  • Author_Institution
    Electron. & Electr. Eng. Dept., Univ. Teknol. PETRONAS, Tronoh, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    17-18 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    310
  • Lastpage
    314
  • Abstract
    For automatic detection of skin lesion, segmentation has always been a primary issue. Many techniques for segmentation and border detection of skin lesion have been discussed in literature. In this paper, we have proposed a multilevel thresholding algorithm which is primarily based on Otsu´s method to find between class variance of image histogram. Our algorithm is able to divide image into multiple classes based on intensity level with optimized selection of threshold values. Our proposed approach has shown quite reasonable results and is computationally fast and easy.
  • Keywords
    image segmentation; object detection; image histogram; multilevel thresholding algorithm; pigmented skin lesion segmentation; skin lesion border detection; Histograms; Image color analysis; Image segmentation; Lesions; Optimization; Pixel; Skin; Multilevel thresholding; Otsu´s method; Pigmented Skin Lesion; Segmentation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Penang
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-894-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IST.2011.5962214
  • Filename
    5962214