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An improved border detection in dermoscopy images for density based clustering

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Title
An improved border detection in dermoscopy images for density based clustering
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BMC Bioinformatics, October 2011
DOI 10.1186/1471-2105-12-s10-s12
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Sait Suer, Sinan Kockara, Mutlu Mete

Abstract

Dermoscopy is one of the major imaging modalities used in the diagnosis of melanoma and other pigmented skin lesions. In current practice, dermatologists determine lesion area by manually drawing lesion borders. Therefore, automated assessment tools for dermoscopy images have become an important research field mainly because of inter- and intra-observer variations in human interpretation. One of the most important steps in dermoscopy image analysis is automated detection of lesion borders. To our knowledge, in our 2010 study we achieved one of the highest accuracy rates in the automated lesion border detection field by using modified density based clustering algorithm. In the previous study, we proposed a novel method which removes redundant computations in well-known spatial density based clustering algorithm, DBSCAN; thus, in turn it speeds up clustering process considerably.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Switzerland 1 3%
Unknown 28 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 7 24%
Researcher 5 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 14%
Student > Bachelor 3 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 10%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 4 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 34%
Computer Science 9 31%
Engineering 4 14%
Unknown 6 21%
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