Title :
SkinScan©: A portable library for melanoma detection on handheld devices
Author :
Wadhawan, Tarun ; Situ, Ning ; Lancaster, Keith ; Yuan, Xiaojing ; Zouridakis, George
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
fDate :
March 30 2011-April 2 2011
Abstract :
We have developed a portable library for automated detection of melanoma termed SkinScan© that can be used on smartphones and other handheld devices. Compared to desktop computers, embedded processors have limited processing speed, memory, and power, but they have the advantage of portability and low cost. In this study we explored the feasibility of running a sophisticated application for automated skin cancer detection on an Apple iPhone 4. Our results demonstrate that the proposed library with the advanced image processing and analysis algorithms has excellent performance on handheld and desktop computers. Therefore, deployment of smartphones as screening devices for skin cancer and other skin diseases can have a significant impact on health care delivery in underserved and remote areas.
Keywords :
biomedical telemetry; body area networks; cancer; health care; medical image processing; mobile radio; patient diagnosis; skin; Apple iPhone 4; SkinScan; desktop computers; emote area; handheld devices; health care delivery; image processing algorithms; melanoma detection; portable library; skin cancer detection; skin diseases; smart phones; underserved area; Feature extraction; Image segmentation; Lesions; Libraries; Malignant tumors; Smart phones; Training; Skin cancer detection; handheld device; melanoma screening; smartphone;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 2011 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4127-3
Electronic_ISBN :
1945-7928
DOI :
10.1109/ISBI.2011.5872372
