Pigmented skin lesion detection using random forest and wavelet-based texture

Ping Hu; Tie-jun Yang

doi:10.1117/12.2245149

31 October 2016 Pigmented skin lesion detection using random forest and wavelet-based texture

Ping Hu, Tie-jun Yang

Proceedings Volume 10024, Optics in Health Care and Biomedical Optics VII; 100241X (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2245149
Event: SPIE/COS Photonics Asia, 2016, Beijing, China

Abstract

The incidence of cutaneous malignant melanoma, a disease of worldwide distribution and is the deadliest form of skin cancer, has been rapidly increasing over the last few decades. Because advanced cutaneous melanoma is still incurable, early detection is an important step toward a reduction in mortality. Dermoscopy photographs are commonly used in melanoma diagnosis and can capture detailed features of a lesion. A great variability exists in the visual appearance of pigmented skin lesions. Therefore, in order to minimize the diagnostic errors that result from the difficulty and subjectivity of visual interpretation, an automatic detection approach is required. The objectives of this paper were to propose a hybrid method using random forest and Gabor wavelet transformation to accurately differentiate which part belong to lesion area and the other is not in a dermoscopy photographs and analyze segmentation accuracy. A random forest classifier consisting of a set of decision trees was used for classification. Gabor wavelets transformation are the mathematical model of visual cortical cells of mammalian brain and an image can be decomposed into multiple scales and multiple orientations by using it. The Gabor function has been recognized as a very useful tool in texture analysis, due to its optimal localization properties in both spatial and frequency domain. Texture features based on Gabor wavelets transformation are found by the Gabor filtered image. Experiment results indicate the following: (1) the proposed algorithm based on random forest outperformed the-state-of-the-art in pigmented skin lesions detection (2) and the inclusion of Gabor wavelet transformation based texture features improved segmentation accuracy significantly.

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Ping Hu and Tie-jun Yang "Pigmented skin lesion detection using random forest and wavelet-based texture", Proc. SPIE 10024, Optics in Health Care and Biomedical Optics VII, 100241X (31 October 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2245149

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