Refereed full papers (journals, book chapters, international conferences)

2003

@article{SGT2003,
	vgclass =	{refpap},
	author =	{Philippe Schmid-Saugeon and Jo\"{e}l Guillod and
	Jean-Philippe Thiran},
	title =	{Towards a computer-aided diagnosis system for pigmented skin lesions},
	journal =	{Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics},
	volume =	{27},
	pages =	{65--78},
	year =	{2003},
	url =	{http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/571151.html},
	abstract =	{This paper presents a computer-aided diagnosis system for
	pigmented skin lesions, with solutions for the lesion boundary
	detection and for the quantification of the degree of symmetry. Lesion
	detection results were validated by expert dermatologists, who also
	provided handdrawn boundaries of the lesions. These reference
	boundaries were not used as a gold standard, but were allowed to
	statistically determine the accuracy of the boundaries provided by
	computerized techniques. We could show that the dermatologists were not
	able to reproduce their results, and that the boundaries of any expert
	taken alone showed higher divergence from those of the set of remaining
	experts than the automatic techniques we developed. Feature extraction
	is restricted in this paper to the quantification of degree of
	symmetry, even though it is clear that many other features will be
	necessary for a complete diagnosis system. The symmetry quantification
	step provides a sixdimensional feature vector that can be used to
	classify pigmented skin lesions as being benign or malignant. We
	demonstrate that our scheme outperforms methods based on the principal
	component decomposition, which is widely used for this kind of
	application.},
}