A Method for Melanoma Skin Cancer Detection Using Dermoscopy Images

Now days, Skin cancer is life threatening disease which causes human death. Abnormal growth of melanocytic cells causes a skin cancer. Due to malignancy feature skin cancer is also known as melanoma. Melanoma appears on the skin due to exposure of ultraviolet radiation and genetic factors. So melanoma lesion appears as black or brown in colour. Early detection of melanoma can cure completely. Biopsy is a traditional method for detecting skin cancer. This method is painful and invasive. This method requires laboratory testing so it is time consuming. Therefore, in order to solve the above stated issues computer aided diagnosis for skin cancer is needed. Computer aided diagnosis uses Dermoscopy for capturing the skin image. In this paper first pre-processing of the skin image is done. After pre-processing lesion part is segmented by using image segmentation technique which is followed by feature extraction in which unique features are extracted from segmented lesion. After feature extraction, classification by using support vector machine is performed for classifying the skin image as normal skin and melanoma skin cancer. The proposed system results shows that support vector machine with linear kernel gives optimum accuracy.