A mobile system for skin cancer diagnosis and monitoring
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a mobile system for aiding doctors in skin cancer diagnosis and other persons in skin cancer monitoring. The basic idea is to use image retrieval techniques to help the users to find the similar skin cancer cases stored in a database by using smart phones. The query image can be taken by a smart phone from a patient or can be uploaded from other resources. The shapes of the skin lesions are used for matching two skin lesions, which are segmented from skin images using the skin lesion extraction method developed in 1. The features used in the proposed system are obtained by Fourier descriptor. A prototype application has been developed and can be installed in an iPhone. In this application, the iPhone users can use the iPhone as a diagnosis tool to find the potential skin lesions in a persons' skin and compare the skin lesions detected by the iPhone with the skin lesions stored in a database in a remote server. © 2014 SPIE.
Publication Title
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Recommended Citation
Gu, Y.,
&
Tang, J.
(2014).
A mobile system for skin cancer diagnosis and monitoring.
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering,
9120.
http://doi.org/10.1117/12.2046112
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