Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer worldwide, which causes the 75% of deaths related to skin cancer. National Cancer Institute estimated that 91,270 new case and 9,320 deaths are expected in 2018 caused by melanoma. Early detection of melanoma is the key for the treatment.
The image technique to diagnose skin cancer is dermoscopy, which leads to improved diagnose accuracy compared to traditional ABCD criteria. But reading and examining dermoscopic images is a time-consuming and complex process. Therefore, computerized analysis methods of dermoscopic images have been developed to assist the visual interpretation of dermoscopic images. The automatic segmentation of skin lesion attributes is a key step in computerized analysis of dermoscopic images.
The International Skin Imaging Collaboration (ISIC) hosted the 2018 Challenges to help the diagnosis of melanoma based on dermoscopic images. In this thesis, I develop a deep learning based approach to automatically segment the attributes from dermoscopic skin lesion images. The approach described in the thesis achieved the Jaccard index of 0.477 on the official test dataset, which ranked 5th place in the challenge. / Master of Science / Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer worldwide, which causes the 75% of deaths related to skin cancer. Early detection of melanoma is the key for the treatment.
The image technique to diagnose skin cancer is called dermoscopy. It has become increasingly conveniently to use dermoscopic device to image the skin in recent years. Dermoscopic lens are available in the market for individual customer. When coupling the dermoscopic lens with smartphones, people are be able to take dermoscopic images of their skin even at home.
However, reading and examining dermoscopic images is a time-consuming and complex process. It requires specialists to examine the image, extract the features, and compare with criteria to make clinical diagnosis. The time-consuming image examination process becomes the bottleneck of fast diagnosis of melanoma. Therefore, computerized analysis methods of dermoscopic images have been developed to promote the melanoma diagnosis and to increase the survival rate and save lives eventually.
The automatic segmentation of skin lesion attributes is a key step in computerized analysis of dermoscopic images. In this thesis, I developed a deep learning based approach to automatically segment the attributes from dermoscopic skin lesion images. The segmentation result from this approach won 5th place in a public competition. It has the potential to be utilized in clinic application in the future.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/86883 |
| Date | 09 1900 |
| Creators | Dong, Xu |
| Contributors | Computer Science, Fan, Weiguo Patrick, Cao, Guohua, Cao, Yang |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | ETD, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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