Automating the Detection of Atypical Pigment Network Using Texture Segmentation

A software program called CVIPtools is used to calculate texture features in skin lesion images with the goal of finding atypical pigment networks in these images. The atypical pigment network is a critical feature in attempting to diagnose melanoma versus benign nevus from an image. Using CVIPtools is a long and arduous process. New software was developed to automate this laborious process. The software uses a map to segment an image for atypical pigment networks. The segmented image would mark the areas with and without atypical pigment networks. The results of the automated process are identical to CVIPtool’s results when using grayscale images, and only 1-5% different when using a color image as the input