Melanoma is considered a major health problem since it is the deadliest form of skin cancer. The early diagnosis through periodic screening with dermoscopic images can significantly improve the survival rate as well as reduce the treatment cost and consequent suffering of patients. Dermoscopy or skin surface microscopy provides in vivo inspection of color and morphologic structures of pigmented skin lesions (PSLs), rendering higher accuracy for detecting suspicious cases than it is possible via inspecting with naked eye. However, interpretation of dermoscopic images is time consuming and subjective, even for trained dermatologists. Therefore, there is currently a great interest in the development of computeraided diagnosis (CAD) systems for automated melanoma recognition. However, the majority of the CAD systems are still in the early development stage with lack of descriptive feature generation and benchmark evaluation in ground-truth datasets. This work is focusing on by addressing the various issues related to the development of such a CAD system with effective feature extraction from Non-Subsampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT) and Eig(Hess) histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) and lesion classification with efficient Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) due to its good generalization abilities and a high learning efficiency and evaluating its effectiveness in a benchmark data set of dermoscopic images towards the goal of realistic comparison and real clinical integration. The proposed research on melanoma recognition has huge potential for offering powerful services that would significantly benefit the present Biomedical Information Systems.
Object detection is currently one of the most actively researched areas of computer vision, image processing and analysis. Image co-occurrence has shown significant performance on object detection task because it considers the characteristic of objects and spatial relationship between them simultaneously. CoHOG has achieved great success on different object detection tasks, especially human detection. Whereas, CoHOG is sensitive to noise and it does not consider gradient magnitude which significantly effects the object detection accuracy. To overcome these disadvantages the CoGMuLBP was proposed. CoGMuLBP uses a new statistical orientation assignment method based on uniform LBP instead of using the common gradient orientation. In this study, detection accuracies of CoGMuLBP and CoHOG are calculated on three different datasets with NN classifier. In addition, to evaluate the noise performance of the methods, gaussian noises were added to test images and performances were recalculated. Numerical experiments performed on three different datasets show that 1) CoGMuLBP has higher detection accuracy than CoHOG; 2) using uniform LBP based gradient orientation improves detection accuracy; and 3) CoGMuLBP is more robust to gaussian noise and illumination changes. These results provide the effectiveness of CoGMuLBP for object detection.
Access to the requested content is limited to institutions that have purchased or subscribe to SPIE eBooks.
You are receiving this notice because your organization may not have SPIE eBooks access.*
*Shibboleth/Open Athens users─please
sign in
to access your institution's subscriptions.
To obtain this item, you may purchase the complete book in print or electronic format on
SPIE.org.
INSTITUTIONAL Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.
PERSONAL Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.