Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA
Volume 20, Issue 10, Pages 2849-2864Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2018.2814346
Keywords
Multimedia-based healthcare; malignant melanoma (MM); mobile image analysis; feature selection; human-computer interface
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We investigate the design of an entire mobile imaging system for early detection of melanoma. Different from previous work, we focus on smartphone-captured visible light images. Our design addresses two major challenges. First, images acquired using a smartphone under loosely-controlled environmental conditions may be subject to various distortions, and this makes melanoma detection more difficult. Second, processing performed on a smartphone is subject to stringent computation and memory constraints. In our work, we propose a detection system that is optimized to run entirely on the resource-constrained smartphone. Our system intends to localize the skin lesion by combining a lightweight method for skin detection with a hierarchical segmentation approach using two fast segmentation methods. Moreover, we study an extensive set of image features and propose new numerical features to characterize a skin lesion. Furthermore, we propose an improved feature selection algorithm to determine a small set of discriminative features used by the final lightweight system. In addition, we study the human-computer interface (HCI) design to understand the usability and acceptance issues of the proposed system. Our extensive evaluation on an image dataset provided by National Skin Center - Singapore (117 benign nevi and 67 malignant melanoma) confirms the effectiveness of the proposed system for melanoma detection: 89.09% sensitivity at specificity >= 90%.
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