Automatic lesion border selection in dermoscopy images using morphology and color features

We present a classifier for automatically selecting a lesion border for dermoscopy skin lesion images, to aid in computer‐aided diagnosis of melanoma. Variation in photographic technique of dermoscopy images makes segmentation of skin lesions a difficult problem. No single algorithm provides an acceptable lesion border to allow further processing of skin lesions.

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