Semantic analysis of skin lesions using radial basis function neural networks

Artificial Neural Networks have been successfully applied to abroad spectrum of complex analysis problems. Computational intelligence is finding more and more applications in computer aided diagnostics, helping doctors to process large quantities of various medical data. In dermatology it is extremely difficult to perform automatic diagnostic differentiation of malignant melanoma based only on dermatoscopic images. Applying artificial intelligence algorithms to explore and search large database of dermatoscopic images allow doctors to semantically filter out image with specified characteristics. This paper presents an approach for characteristic objects classification found in image database of pigment skin lesions, based on radial basis function kernel for artificial neural networks.