Psoriasis segmentation through chromatic regions and Geometric Active Contours

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2012:2012:5388-91. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6347212.

Abstract

We present a novel approach to the segmentation of psoriasis lesions in "full body" digital photographs potentially involving dozens or even hundreds of separate lesions. Our algorithm first isolates a set of zones that certainly correspond to lesional plaques based on chromatic information, and then expands these zones to achieve an accurate segmentation of plaques through a Geometric Active Contours method. The variability in segmentation between our algorithm and different human operators appears comparable to the variability between human operators.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Humans
  • Psoriasis / pathology*