Segmentation of dermatoscopic images by stabilized inverse diffusion equations

Several segmentation techniques were evaluated for their effectiveness in distinguishing lesion from background in dermatoscopic images of pigmented lesions (moles and melanomas). These included 5 techniques previously used for segmentation of pigmented lesions, and several new techniques based on stabilized inverse diffusion equations (SIDE) and Markov random fields (MRF). Novel multiresolution implementations of the SIDE and MRF algorithms were created for this work. Techniques based on the SIDE and MRF algorithms produced the most accurate segmentations.