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ScienceAsia 40S (2014): 1-7 |doi: 10.2306/scienceasia1513-1874.2014.40S.001


Automatic skin lesion segmentation with optimal colour channel from dermoscopic images


Alaa Ahmed Abbas Al-abayechia,b, Xiaoning Guoa, Wooi-Haw Tana, Hamid A. Jalabc,*

 
ABSTRACT:     This article provides an improved automated skin lesion segmentation method for dermoscopic images. There are several stages for this method. These include the pre-processing steps such as resizing the images and eliminating noise. Hair was removed and reflective light was reduced using morphological operations and a median filter. The single green channel was rescaled into new intensities, as it provided the highest segmentation accuracy. The threshold value was calculated to separate the skin lesion region from healthy skin. Morphological operations were implemented to merge the small lesion areas around the bigger lesion areas with similar features and trace the boundary of the melanoma. The accuracy of the segmentation was evaluated by comparing the automatic boundary and manual boundary. Compared to other studies, our proposed method achieved the highest average accuracy of 97%.

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a Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia
b Foundation of Technical Education, Institute of Administration Al-Rassafa Baghdad-Iraq
c Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 50603, Malaysia

* Corresponding author, E-mail: hamidjalab@um.edu.my

Received 13 Feb 2014, Accepted 0 0000