Saliency-Based Lesion Segmentation Via Background Detection in Dermoscopic Images

Ahn, Euijoon, Kim, Jinman, Bi, Lei, Kumar, Ashnil, Li, Changyang, Fulham, Michael, and Feng, David Dagan (2017) Saliency-Based Lesion Segmentation Via Background Detection in Dermoscopic Images. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 21 (6). pp. 1685-1693.

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Abstract

The segmentation of skin lesions in dermoscopic images is a fundamental step in automated computer-aided diagnosis of melanoma. Conventional segmentation methods, however, have difficulties when the lesion borders are indistinct and when contrast between the lesion and the surrounding skin is low. They also perform poorly when there is a heterogeneous background or a lesion that touches the image boundaries; this then results in underand oversegmentation of the skin lesion. We suggest that saliency detection using the reconstruction errors derived from a sparse representation model coupled with a novel background detection can more accurately discriminate the lesion from surrounding regions. We further propose a Bayesian framework that better delineates the shape and boundaries of the lesion. We also evaluated our approach on two public datasets comprising 1100 dermoscopic images and compared it to other conventional and state-of-the-art unsupervised (i.e., no training required) lesion segmentation methods, as well as the state-of-the-art unsupervised saliency detection methods. Our results show that our approach is more accurate and robust in segmenting lesions compared to other methods. We also discuss the general extension of our framework as a saliency optimization algorithm for lesion segmentation.

Item ID: 72037
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 2168-2208
Copyright Information: © IEEE
Date Deposited: 05 Apr 2022 23:32
FoR Codes: 46 INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES > 4603 Computer vision and multimedia computation > 460306 Image processing @ 60%
46 INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES > 4603 Computer vision and multimedia computation > 460308 Pattern recognition @ 40%
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