Segmentation of dermoscopy images based on fully convolutional neural network

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Abstract

Lesion segmentation is one of the crucial steps for computerized dermoscopy image analysis. To accurately extract lesion borders from dermoscopy images, a novel segmentation method based on fully convolutional neural network is proposed in this paper. The designed network contains a low-level trunk followed by two brunches (global brunch and local brunch). The low-level trunk is fine-tuned from VGG16 net. Two brunches with different receptive fields extract global and local features respectively. After the combination of the global and local features, the final segmentation results are obtained through pixel-wise softmax classification. Experiments are conducted on the challenge dataset ISBI 2016. The results demonstrate that our designed network is more adaptive to dermoscopy images, which obtain more accurate lesion borders with good robust than other state-of-the-art methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2017 - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1732-1736
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781509021758
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Jul 2017
Event24th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2017 - Beijing, China
Duration: 17 Sep 201720 Sep 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
Volume2017-September
ISSN (Print)1522-4880

Conference

Conference24th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period17/09/1720/09/17

Keywords

  • Dermoscopy
  • Fully convolutional neural network
  • Lesion segmentation

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