End-User Skin Analysis (Moles) through Image Acquisition and Processing System
Skin moles and lesions can be the first signs of severe skin diseases such as cancer. This paper presents the development of an end-user device capable of capturing images, segmentation and diagnosis of moles by using the ABCD rule, which stands for analyzing moles’ parameters as: asymmetry, border,...
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| author | Lorant Andras Szolga Denisa Alice Bozga Camelia Florea |
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| description | Skin moles and lesions can be the first signs of severe skin diseases such as cancer. This paper presents the development of an end-user device capable of capturing images, segmentation and diagnosis of moles by using the ABCD rule, which stands for analyzing moles’ parameters as: asymmetry, border, color, and diameter. These are the main mole characteristics that doctors look at, each of them having a different factor of importance, and depending on these an accurate diagnosis can be given. For the hardware, we developed a small and compact device that can be manipulated easily by anyone without knowledge of medicine, in which we considered a custom-designed 3D enclosure with two white LEDs to control the light. The device has the role of facilitating analysis of the suspicious moles regularly at home, even if only from an indicative and not from a medical point of view. The developed PC software permits the storage of the images in a local database for easy tracking and analysis in time. The image processing developed for the ABCD rule is incorporated into the PC software and tested extensively on the international PH2 database with skin melanoma images to validate our segmentation and criteria evaluation. Using the developed device, we captured mole images for patients, who also took a medical examination by a specialist using the standard dermatoscope. Therefore, we obtained our own database containing 26 images for which we have also the specialists’ diagnosis. The performance evaluation measures obtained using our device are—Accuracy: 0.92, Precision: 1.0, Recall: 0.92, F1-score: 0.96. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ab4b2693d31f48448ae0b1a3f87b7b062023-11-23T17:50:51ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202022-02-01223112310.3390/s22031123End-User Skin Analysis (Moles) through Image Acquisition and Processing SystemLorant Andras Szolga0Denisa Alice Bozga1Camelia Florea2Basics of Electronics Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 400114 Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaBasics of Electronics Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 400114 Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaCommunications Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 400114 Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaSkin moles and lesions can be the first signs of severe skin diseases such as cancer. This paper presents the development of an end-user device capable of capturing images, segmentation and diagnosis of moles by using the ABCD rule, which stands for analyzing moles’ parameters as: asymmetry, border, color, and diameter. These are the main mole characteristics that doctors look at, each of them having a different factor of importance, and depending on these an accurate diagnosis can be given. For the hardware, we developed a small and compact device that can be manipulated easily by anyone without knowledge of medicine, in which we considered a custom-designed 3D enclosure with two white LEDs to control the light. The device has the role of facilitating analysis of the suspicious moles regularly at home, even if only from an indicative and not from a medical point of view. The developed PC software permits the storage of the images in a local database for easy tracking and analysis in time. The image processing developed for the ABCD rule is incorporated into the PC software and tested extensively on the international PH2 database with skin melanoma images to validate our segmentation and criteria evaluation. Using the developed device, we captured mole images for patients, who also took a medical examination by a specialist using the standard dermatoscope. Therefore, we obtained our own database containing 26 images for which we have also the specialists’ diagnosis. The performance evaluation measures obtained using our device are—Accuracy: 0.92, Precision: 1.0, Recall: 0.92, F1-score: 0.96.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/3/1123ABCD rulemicrocontrollerimage processingmolephotographyskin cancer |
| spellingShingle | Lorant Andras Szolga Denisa Alice Bozga Camelia Florea End-User Skin Analysis (Moles) through Image Acquisition and Processing System Sensors ABCD rule microcontroller image processing mole photography skin cancer |
| title | End-User Skin Analysis (Moles) through Image Acquisition and Processing System |
| title_full | End-User Skin Analysis (Moles) through Image Acquisition and Processing System |
| title_fullStr | End-User Skin Analysis (Moles) through Image Acquisition and Processing System |
| title_full_unstemmed | End-User Skin Analysis (Moles) through Image Acquisition and Processing System |
| title_short | End-User Skin Analysis (Moles) through Image Acquisition and Processing System |
| title_sort | end user skin analysis moles through image acquisition and processing system |
| topic | ABCD rule microcontroller image processing mole photography skin cancer |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/3/1123 |
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