A Skin Cancer Region Extraction Using Watershed

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  • Han, Jae-Bok (School of Electronics and Computer Engineering Chonnam University) ;
  • Kim, Jin-Young (School of Electronics and Computer Engineering Chonnam University) ;
  • Yu, Hong-Yeon (School of Electronics and Computer Engineering Chonnam University) ;
  • Hong, Sung-Hoon (School of Electronics and Computer Engineering Chonnam University)
  • 한재복 (전남대학교 전자컴퓨터공학부) ;
  • 김진영 (전남대학교 전자컴퓨터공학부) ;
  • 유홍연 (전남대학교 전자컴퓨터공학부) ;
  • 홍성훈 (전남대학교 전자컴퓨터공학부)
  • Published : 2006.06.21

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a skin lesion detection to develop the system of fluorescence image analysis to identify the fluorescence of topical methyl aminolevulinate(MAL) idduced PpIX in patients with BCC accurately. By fluorescence image analysis we define the border between tumo and tumor-free areas on fluorescence image after topical application of MAL ointment. We excised both the tumor and peri-tumoral areas widely from the 10 patients with BCC, and divided tissue samples into 3 area, such as tumor area, suspected tumor area, tumor-free area, respectively. Our proposed method migt play a role as an adjunctive tool to define the border between tumor and tumor-free areas for Mohs' micrographic surgery.

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