Normalization techniques for psoriasis skin lesion analysis

This paper presents a contribution in the field of image processing for dermatological of skin lesions. Psoriasis skin lesion's images were digitally captured under controlled environment. These images were processed to produce color histograms to obtain color variegation metric. This paper shows that certain normalization technique can be employed to distinguish three types of psoriasis skin diseases infecting the Malaysian population.

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