Automatic dirt trail analysis in dermoscopy images

Background

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common cancer in the US. Dermatoscopes are devices used by physicians to facilitate the early detection of these cancers based on the identification of skin lesion structures often specific to BCCs. One new lesion structure, referred to as dirt trails, has the appearance of dark gray, brown or black dots and clods of varying sizes distributed in elongated clusters with indistinct borders, often appearing as curvilinear trails.



Methods

In this research, we explore a dirt trail detection and analysis algorithm for extracting, measuring, and characterizing ...

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