Title Diagnostics of melanocytic skin tumours by a combination of ultrasonic, dermatoscopic and spectrophotometric image parameters /
Authors Tiwari, Kumar Anubhav ; Raišutis, Renaldas ; Liutkus, Jokūbas ; Valiukevičienė, Skaidra
DOI 10.3390/diagnostics10090632
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Is Part of Diagnostics.. Basel : MDPI. 2020, vol. 10, iss. 9, art. no. 632, p. 1-14.. ISSN 2075-4418
Keywords [eng] melanoma ; melanocytic tumor ; dermatoscopy ; ultrasonography ; spectrophotometry ; classification ; diagnostics
Abstract [eng] Dermatoscopy, high-frequency ultrasonography (HFUS) and spectrophotometry are promising quantitative imaging techniques for the investigation and diagnostics of cutaneous melanocytic tumors. In this paper, we propose the hybrid technique and automatic prognostic models by combining the quantitative image parameters of ultrasonic B-scan images, dermatoscopic and spectrophotometric images (melanin, blood and collagen) to increase accuracy in the diagnostics of cutaneous melanoma. The extracted sets of various quantitative parameters and features of dermatoscopic, ultrasonic and spectrometric images were used to develop the four different classification models: logistic regression (LR), linear discriminant analysis (LDA), support vector machine (SVM) and Naive Bayes. The results were compared to the combination of only two techniques out of three. The reliable differentiation between melanocytic naevus and melanoma were achieved by the proposed technique. The accuracy of more than 90% was estimated in the case of LR, LDA and SVM by the proposed method.
Published Basel : MDPI
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2020
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