Skin disease analysis and tracking based on image segmentation

Abstract

Tracking of the skin disease is a necessary step of diagnostic as well the measure of the wound's surface is very useful in healing's document. To overcome the difficulties of the skin illness's estimation, encountered with the currently used measurement techniques, we propose a novel approach aiming to reduce the time-consuming and the error rate. The proposed method is based on two steps; the first step is a preprocessing one which consists in image segmentation to detect the edge of the infected skin region. In the second one, another proposed method is applied to measure the wound `size' and control the illness evolution. In this work, a comparative study was realized to select the most suitable segmentation technique referred to a proposed criterion based on `edge accuracy' EAC. The new criterion was compared with the `surface accuracy' based on ROC1 space. The experiments show the performance of the proposed criterion and the efficacy of the measurement technique.