Since melanomas grow and metastasize rapidly, the mutation in their appearance is much larger than that of
nevi. If the variation of skin tumor can be evaluated quantitatively, it is of substantial help not only for clinical
diagnosis, but also for development of computer-based diagnostic systems. However, photographic conditions of
skin tumor are in most cases not uniform during the follow-up. In this study, we proposed a fully automated
image registration and color calibration method between dermoscopy images in the time-course analysis. Our
proposed algorithm aligned the time-course images with a precision of 91.6 ± 5.1% and a recall of 95.7 ± 5.9%,
respectively whereas the fully manual registrations with Exif data as a performance reference did 95.4 ± 3.2%
and 92.4 ± 6.5%, respectively. Our color calibration method largely reduced the color difference between timecourse
images ΔE from 10.9 ± 5.6 to 3.9 1.7. These results showed that the proposed method was effective to
compensate both geometrical and chronological changes between dermoscopy images in the time-course analysis.
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