Maram A Wahba1, Amira S Ashour1, Sameh A Napoleon1, Mustafa M Abd Elnaby1, Yanhui Guo2. 1. Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt. 2. Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL USA.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Basal cell carcinoma is one of the most common malignant skin lesions. Automated lesion identification and classification using image processing techniques is highly required to reduce the diagnosis errors. METHODS: In this study, a novel technique is applied to classify skin lesion images into two classes, namely the malignant Basal cell carcinoma and the benign nevus. A hybrid combination of bi-dimensional empirical mode decomposition and gray-level difference method features is proposed after hair removal. The combined features are further classified using quadratic support vector machine (Q-SVM). RESULTS: The proposed system has achieved outstanding performance of 100% accuracy, sensitivity and specificity compared to other support vector machine procedures as well as with different extracted features. CONCLUSION: Basal Cell Carcinoma is effectively classified using Q-SVM with the proposed combined features.
PURPOSE: Basal cell carcinoma is one of the most common malignant skin lesions. Automated lesion identification and classification using image processing techniques is highly required to reduce the diagnosis errors. METHODS: In this study, a novel technique is applied to classify skin lesion images into two classes, namely the malignant Basal cell carcinoma and the benign nevus. A hybrid combination of bi-dimensional empirical mode decomposition and gray-level difference method features is proposed after hair removal. The combined features are further classified using quadratic support vector machine (Q-SVM). RESULTS: The proposed system has achieved outstanding performance of 100% accuracy, sensitivity and specificity compared to other support vector machine procedures as well as with different extracted features. CONCLUSION: Basal Cell Carcinoma is effectively classified using Q-SVM with the proposed combined features.
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Basal cell carcinoma; Empirical mode decomposition; Gray-level difference method; Riesz; Skin cancer classification; Support vector machine