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Classification of Melanoma and Nevus in Digital Images for Diagnosis of Skin Cancer

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dc.contributor.author Khan, Muhammad Qasim
dc.contributor.author Hussain, Ayyaz
dc.contributor.author Rehman, Saeed ur
dc.contributor.author Khan, Umair
dc.contributor.author Maqsood, Muazzam
dc.contributor.author Mehmood, Kashif
dc.contributor.author Khan, Muazzam A.
dc.date.accessioned 2019-11-12T09:34:23Z
dc.date.available 2019-11-12T09:34:23Z
dc.date.issued 2019-07-05
dc.identifier.issn 2169-3536
dc.identifier.uri http://142.54.178.187:9060/xmlui/handle/123456789/1147
dc.description.abstract Melanoma is considered a fatal type of skin cancer. However, it is sometimes hard to distinguish it from nevus due to their identical visual appearance and symptoms. The mortality rate because of this disease is higher than all other skin-related consolidated malignancies. The number of cases is growing among young people, but if it is diagnosed at an earlier stage, then the survival rates become very high. The cost and time required for the doctors to diagnose all patients for melanoma are very high. In this paper, we propose an intelligent system to detect and distinguish melanoma from nevus by using the state-of-the-art image processing techniques. At first, the Gaussian filter is used for removing noise from the skin lesion of the acquired images followed by the use of improved K-mean clustering to segment out the lesion. A distinctive hybrid superfeature vector is formed by the extraction of textural and color features from the lesion. Support vector machine (SVM) is utilized for the classification of skin cancer into melanoma and nevus. Our aim is to test the effectiveness of the proposed segmentation technique, extract the most suitable features, and compare the classification results with the other techniques present in the literature. The proposed methodology is tested on the DERMIS dataset having a total number of 397 skin cancer images: 146 are melanoma and 251 are nevus skin lesions. Our proposed methodology archives encouraging results having 96% accuracy. en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher IEEE Access en_US
dc.subject Medical and Health Sciences en_US
dc.subject Biomedical optical imaging en_US
dc.subject Medical image processing en_US
dc.subject Skin cancer images en_US
dc.subject DERMIS dataset en_US
dc.subject Skin lesion en_US
dc.subject Skin-related consolidated malignancies en_US
dc.subject Nevus skin lesions en_US
dc.subject K-means clustering en_US
dc.subject Centroid selection en_US
dc.title Classification of Melanoma and Nevus in Digital Images for Diagnosis of Skin Cancer en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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