Malignant melanoma, which is the most dangerous type of skin cancer, is commonly
diagnosed in all people, regardless of age, gender, or race. In the last several years an …

Background. One of the most important lesion features predicting malignancy is border
irregularity. Accurate assessment of irregular borders is clinically important due to …

Skin lesion border irregularity is considered an important clinical feature for the early
diagnosis of melanoma, representing the B feature in the ABCD rule. In this article we …

Dermoscopy is one of the major imaging modalities used in the diagnosis of melanoma and
other pigmented skin lesions. Due to the difficulty and subjectivity of human interpretation …

As a result of advances in skin imaging technology and the development of suitable image
processing techniques during the last decade, there has been a significant increase of …

Purpose: This paper presents a novel approach for objective evaluation of border detection
in dermoscopy images of melanoma. Background: In melanoma studies, border detection is …

BACKGROUND: Dermoscopy is one of the major imaging modalities used in the diagnosis
of melanoma and other pigmented skin lesions. Due to the difficulty and subjectivity of …

Background: Dermoscopy is one of the major imaging modalities used in the diagnosis of
melanoma and other pigmented skin lesions. Owing to the difficulty and subjectivity of …

Background/purpose: Automated border detection is an important and challenging task in
the computerized analysis of dermoscopy images. However, dermoscopic images often …

Computer aided diagnosis of dermoscopy images has shown great promise in developing a
quantitative, objective way of classifying skin lesions. An important step in the classification …