Simple, Fast, Accurate Melanocytic Lesion Segmentation in 1D Colour Space

F. Peruch, F. Bogo, M. Bonazza, M. Bressan, V. Cappelleri, E. Peserico

2013

Abstract

We present a novel technique for melanocytic lesion segmentation, based on one-dimensional Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in colour space. Our technique is simple and extremely fast, segmenting highresolution images in a fraction of a second even with the modest computational resources available on a cell phone – an improvement of an order of magnitude or more over state-of-the-art techniques. Our technique is also extremely accurate: very experienced dermatologists disagree with its segmentations less than they disagree with the segmentations of all state-of-the-art techniques we tested, and in fact less than they disagree with the segmentations of dermatologists of moderate experience.

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Peruch F., Bogo F., Bonazza M., Bressan M., Cappelleri V. and Peserico E. (2013). Simple, Fast, Accurate Melanocytic Lesion Segmentation in 1D Colour Space . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-47-1, pages 191-200. DOI: 10.5220/0004289601910200


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@conference{visapp13,
author={F. Peruch and F. Bogo and M. Bonazza and M. Bressan and V. Cappelleri and E. Peserico},
title={Simple, Fast, Accurate Melanocytic Lesion Segmentation in 1D Colour Space},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={191-200},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004289601910200},
isbn={978-989-8565-47-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013)
TI - Simple, Fast, Accurate Melanocytic Lesion Segmentation in 1D Colour Space
SN - 978-989-8565-47-1
AU - Peruch F.
AU - Bogo F.
AU - Bonazza M.
AU - Bressan M.
AU - Cappelleri V.
AU - Peserico E.
PY - 2013
SP - 191
EP - 200
DO - 10.5220/0004289601910200