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Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

Feasibility Study of Optical Spectroscopy as a Medical Tool for Diagnosis of Skin Lesions

Author 1: Asad Saf
Author 2: Sheikh Ziauddin
Author 3: Alexander Horsch
Author 4: Mahzad Ziai
Author 5: Victor Castaneda
Author 6: Tobias Lasser
Author 7: Nassir Navab

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI) : 10.14569/IJACSA.2016.071052

Article Published in International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 7 Issue 10, 2016.

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Abstract: Skin cancer is one of the most frequently en-countered types of cancer in the Western world. According to the Skin Cancer Foundation Statistics, one in every five Americans develops skin cancer during his/her lifetime. Today, the incurability of advanced cutaneous melanoma raises the importance of its early detection. Since the differentiation of early melanoma from other pigmented skin lesions is not a trivial task, even for experienced dermatologists, computer aided diagnosis could become an important tool for reducing the mortality rate of this highly malignant cancer type. In this paper, a computer aided diagnosis system based on machine learning is proposed in order to support the clinical use of optical spectroscopy for skin lesions quantification and classification. The focuses is on a feasibility study of optical spectroscopy as a medical tool for diagnosis. To this end, data acquisition protocols for optical spectroscopy are defined and detailed analysis of feature vectors is performed. Different tech-niques for supervised and unsupervised learning are explored on clinical data, collected from patients with malignant and benign skin lesions.

Keywords: Melanoma; Classification; Supervised Learning; Computer–Aided Diagnosis; Machine Learning; Optical Spec-troscopy

Asad Saf, Sheikh Ziauddin, Alexander Horsch, Mahzad Ziai, Victor Castaneda, Tobias Lasser and Nassir Navab, “Feasibility Study of Optical Spectroscopy as a Medical Tool for Diagnosis of Skin Lesions” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 7(10), 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2016.071052

@article{Saf2016,
title = {Feasibility Study of Optical Spectroscopy as a Medical Tool for Diagnosis of Skin Lesions},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2016.071052},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2016.071052},
year = {2016},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {7},
number = {10},
author = {Asad Saf and Sheikh Ziauddin and Alexander Horsch and Mahzad Ziai and Victor Castaneda and Tobias Lasser and Nassir Navab}
}


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