scholarly journals Skin lesion segmentation method for dermoscopic images with convolutional neural networks and semantic segmentation

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-129
Author(s):  
Dang N.H. Thanh ◽  
Nguyen Hoang Hai ◽  
Le Minh Hieu ◽  
Prayag Tiwari ◽  
V.B. Surya Prasath
Keyword(s):  
Skin Cancer ◽  
Skin Lesion ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Segmentation Method ◽  
Lesion Segmentation ◽  
Computing Systems ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Dermoscopic Image ◽  
Better Than

Melanoma skin cancer is one of the most dangerous forms of skin cancer because it grows fast and causes most of the skin cancer deaths. Hence, early detection is a very important task to treat melanoma. In this article, we propose a skin lesion segmentation method for dermoscopic images based on the U-Net architecture with VGG-16 encoder and the semantic segmentation. Base on the segmented skin lesion, diagnostic imaging systems can evaluate skin lesion features to classify them. The proposed method requires fewer resources for training, and it is suitable for computing systems without powerful GPUs, but the training accuracy is still high enough (above 95 %). In the experiments, we train the model on the ISIC dataset – a common dermoscopic image dataset. To assess the performance of the proposed skin lesion segmentation method, we evaluate the Sorensen-Dice and the Jaccard scores and compare to other deep learning-based skin lesion segmentation methods. Experimental results showed that skin lesion segmentation quality of the proposed method are better than ones of the compared methods.

Border Detection in Skin Lesion Images Using an Improved Clustering Algorithm

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-29
Author(s):  
Jayalakshmi D. ◽  
Dheeba J.
Keyword(s):  
Skin Cancer ◽  
Skin Lesion ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Median Filter ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Border Detection ◽  
Early Computer ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Skin Cancer Detection

The incidence of skin cancer has been increasing in recent years and it can become dangerous if not detected early. Computer-aided diagnosis systems can help the dermatologists in assisting with skin cancer detection by examining the features more critically. In this article, a detailed review of pre-processing and segmentation methods is done on skin lesion images by investigating existing and prevalent segmentation methods for the diagnosis of skin cancer. The pre-processing stage is divided into two phases, in the first phase, a median filter is used to remove the artifact; and in the second phase, an improved K-means clustering with outlier removal (KMOR) algorithm is suggested. The proposed method was tested in a publicly available Danderm database. The improved cluster-based algorithm gives an accuracy of 92.8% with a sensitivity of 93% and specificity of 90% with an AUC value of 0.90435. From the experimental results, it is evident that the clustering algorithm has performed well in detecting the border of the lesion and is suitable for pre-processing dermoscopic images.

scholarly journals Iris Segmentation

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.5) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Anis Farihan Mat Raffei ◽  
Rohayanti Hassan ◽  
Shahreen Kasim ◽  
Hishamudin Asmuni ◽  
Asraful Syifaa’ Ahmad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iris Recognition ◽  
Image Data ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Environmental Condition ◽  
Segmentation Method ◽  
Iris Segmentation ◽  
Transform Method ◽  
Circular Hough Transform ◽  
Segmentation Methods

The quality of eye image data become degraded particularly when the image is taken in the non-cooperative acquisition environment such as under visible wavelength illumination. Consequently, this environmental condition may lead to noisy eye images, incorrect localization of limbic and pupillary boundaries and eventually degrade the performance of iris recognition system. Hence, this study has compared several segmentation methods to address the abovementioned issues. The results show that Circular Hough transform method is the best segmentation method with the best overall accuracy, error rate and decidability index that more tolerant to ‘noise’ such as reflection.  

scholarly journals A HIGH VISUAL QUALITY SPRITE GENERATOR USING INTELLIGENT BLENDING WITHOUT SEGMENTATION MASKS

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (08) ◽  
pp. 1139-1158 ◽  
Author(s):  
I-SHENG KUO ◽  
LING-HWEI CHEN
Keyword(s):  
Moving Objects ◽  
Automatic Segmentation ◽  
Visual Quality ◽  
Experimental Result ◽  
Feature Point Extraction ◽  
Comparison Results ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Wu Method ◽  
Better Than

The sprite generator introduced in MPEG-4 blends frames by averaging, which will make places, that are always occupied by moving objects, look blurred. Thus, providing segmented masks for moving objects is suggested. Several researchers have employed automatic segmentation methods to produce moving object masks. Based on these masks, they used a reliability-based blending strategy to generate sprites. Since perfect segmentation is impossible, some ghost-like shadows will appear in the generated sprite. To treat this problem, in this paper, an intelligent blending strategy without needing segmentation masks is proposed. It is based on the fact that for each point in the generated sprite, the corresponding pixels in most frames belong to background and only few belong to moving objects. A counting schema is provided to make only background points participate in average blending. The experimental result shows that the visual quality of the generated sprite using the proposed blending strategy is close to that using manually segmented masks and is better than that generated by Lu-Gao-Wu method. No ghostlike shadows are produced. Furthermore, a uniform feature point extraction method is proposed to increase the precision of global motion estimation, the effectiveness of this part is presented by showing the comparison results with other existing method.

Research on Threshold Segmentation Algorithms

2013 ◽  
Vol 860-863 ◽  
pp. 2888-2891
Author(s):  
Yu Bing Dong ◽  
Ming Jing Li ◽  
Ying Sun
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Segmentation Method ◽  
Threshold Segmentation ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Segmentation Algorithms ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Iterative Threshold

Thresholding is one of the critical steps in pattern recognition and has a significant effect on the upcoming steps of image application, the important objectives of thresholding are as follows, and separating objects from background, decreasing the capacity of data consequently increases speed. Various threshold segmentation methods are studied. These methods are compared by using MATLAB7.0. The qualities of image segmentation are elaborated. The results show that iterative threshold segmentation method is better than others.

scholarly journals Skin Lesion Segmentation using Deep Hypercolumn Descriptors

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhanesh Ramachandram ◽  
Graham W. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Skin Lesion ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Jaccard Index ◽  
Segmentation Method ◽  
Lesion Segmentation ◽  
Malignant Skin

We present a image segmentation method based on deep hypercolumndescriptors which produces state-of-the-art results for thesegmentation of several classes of benign and malignant skin lesions.We achieve a Jaccard index of 0.792 on the 2017 ISIC SkinLesion Segmentation Challenge dataset.

scholarly journals Semantic segmentation of vertebrate microfossils from computed tomography data using a deep learning approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-173
Author(s):  
Yemao Hou ◽  
Mario Canul-Ku ◽  
Xindong Cui ◽  
Rogelio Hasimoto-Beltran ◽  
Min Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Stratigraphic Correlation ◽  
Segmentation Method ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Performance Metric ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Ct Data ◽  
Tomography Data

Abstract. Vertebrate microfossils have broad applications in evolutionary biology and stratigraphy research areas such as the evolution of hard tissues and stratigraphic correlation. Classification is one of the basic tasks of vertebrate microfossil studies. With the development of techniques for virtual paleontology, vertebrate microfossils can be classified efficiently based on 3D volumes. The semantic segmentation of different fossils and their classes from CT data is a crucial step in the reconstruction of their 3D volumes. Traditional segmentation methods adopt thresholding combined with manual labeling, which is a time-consuming process. Our study proposes a deep-learning-based (DL-based) semantic segmentation method for vertebrate microfossils from CT data. To assess the performance of the method, we conducted extensive experiments on nearly 500 fish microfossils. The results show that the intersection over union (IoU) performance metric arrived at least 94.39 %, meeting the semantic segmentation requirements of paleontologists. We expect that the DL-based method could also be applied to other fossils from CT data with good performance.

scholarly journals The diagnostic performance of leak-plugging automated segmentation versus manual tracing of breast lesions on ultrasound images

Ultrasound ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Xiong ◽  
Laith R Sultan ◽  
Theodore W Cary ◽  
Susan M Schultz ◽  
Ghizlane Bouzghar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Performance ◽  
Roc Curves ◽  
Lesion Size ◽  
Ultrasound Images ◽  
Segmentation Method ◽  
Breast Masses ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Malignant Lesions ◽  
Overlap Area ◽  
Better Than

Purpose To assess the diagnostic performance of a leak-plugging segmentation method that we have developed for delineating breast masses on ultrasound images. Materials and methods Fifty-two biopsy-proven breast lesion images were analyzed by three observers using the leak-plugging and manual segmentation methods. From each segmentation method, grayscale and morphological features were extracted and classified as malignant or benign by logistic regression analysis. The performance of leak-plugging and manual segmentations was compared by: size of the lesion, overlap area ( Oa) between the margins, and area under the ROC curves ( Az). Results The lesion size from leak-plugging segmentation correlated closely with that from manual tracing ( R2 of 0.91). Oa was higher for leak plugging, 0.92 ± 0.01 and 0.86 ± 0.06 for benign and malignant masses, respectively, compared to 0.80 ± 0.04 and 0.73 ± 0.02 for manual tracings. Overall Oa between leak-plugging and manual segmentations was 0.79 ± 0.14 for benign and 0.73 ± 0.14 for malignant lesions. Az for leak plugging was consistently higher (0.910 ± 0.003) compared to 0.888 ± 0.012 for manual tracings. The coefficient of variation of Az between three observers was 0.29% for leak plugging compared to 1.3% for manual tracings. Conclusion The diagnostic performance, size measurements, and observer variability for automated leak-plugging segmentations were either comparable to or better than those of manual tracings.

scholarly journals Classifyber, a robust streamline-based linear classifier for white matter bundle segmentation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Bertò ◽  
Daniel Bullock ◽  
Pietro Astolfi ◽  
Soichi Hayashi ◽  
Luca Zigiotto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
White Matter ◽  
Surgical Planning ◽  
Automatic Segmentation ◽  
Segmentation Method ◽  
Multiple Datasets ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Segmentation Quality ◽  
Connectivity Patterns

AbstractVirtual delineation of white matter bundles in the human brain is of paramount importance for multiple applications, such as pre-surgical planning and connectomics. A substantial body of literature is related to methods that automatically segment bundles from diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) data indirectly, by exploiting either the idea of connectivity between regions or the geometry of fiber paths obtained with tractography techniques, or, directly, through the information in volumetric data. Despite the remarkable improvement in automatic segmentation methods over the years, their segmentation quality is not yet satisfactory, especially when dealing with datasets with very diverse characteristics, such as different tracking methods, bundle sizes or data quality. In this work, we propose a novel, supervised streamline-based segmentation method, called Classifyber, which combines information from atlases, connectivity patterns, and the geometry of fiber paths into a simple linear model. With a wide range of experiments on multiple datasets that span from research to clinical domains, we show that Classifyber substantially improves the quality of segmentation as compared to other state-of-the-art methods and, more importantly, that it is robust across very diverse settings. We provide an implementation of the proposed method as open source code, as well as web service.

DUDMap: 3D RGB-D mapping for dense, unstructured, and dynamic environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 172988142110161
Author(s):  
Özgür Hastürk ◽  
Aydan M Erkmen
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Small Region ◽  
Dynamic Environments ◽  
Reconstruction Error ◽  
Localization And Mapping ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
High Dynamic ◽  
Better Than

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem has been extensively studied by researchers in the field of robotics, however, conventional approaches in mapping assume a static environment. The static assumption is valid only in a small region, and it limits the application of visual SLAM in dynamic environments. The recently proposed state-of-the-art SLAM solutions for dynamic environments use different semantic segmentation methods such as mask R-CNN and SegNet; however, these frameworks are based on a sparse mapping framework (ORBSLAM). In addition, segmentation process increases the computational power, which makes these SLAM algorithms unsuitable for real-time mapping. Therefore, there is no effective dense RGB-D SLAM method for real-world unstructured and dynamic environments. In this study, we propose a novel real-time dense SLAM method for dynamic environments, where 3D reconstruction error is manipulated for identification of static and dynamic classes having generalized Gaussian distribution. Our proposed approach requires neither explicit object tracking nor object classifier, which makes it robust to any type of moving object and suitable for real-time mapping. Our method eliminates the repeated views and uses consistent data that enhance the performance of volumetric fusion. For completeness, we compare our proposed method using different types of high dynamic dataset, which are publicly available, to demonstrate the versatility and robustness of our approach. Experiments show that its tracking performance is better than other dense and dynamic SLAM approaches.

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