Segmentation of acne lesion using fuzzy C-means technique with intelligent selection of the desired cluster

Khan, Javed and Malik, Aamir Saeed and Kamel , Nidal and Dass, Sarat Chandra and Affandi, Azura Mohd (2015) Segmentation of acne lesion using fuzzy C-means technique with intelligent selection of the desired cluster. In: 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC).

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Abstract

Segmentation is the basic and important step for digital image analysis and understanding. Segmentation of acne lesions in the visual spectrum of light is very challenging due to factors such as varying skin tones due to ethnicity, camera calibration and the lighting conditions. In this approach the color image is transformed into various color spaces. The image is decomposed into the specified number of homogeneous regions based on the similarity of color using fuzzy C-means clustering technique. Features are extracted for each cluster and average values of these features are calculated. A new objective function is defined that selects the cluster holding the lesion pixels based on the average value of cluster features. In this study segmentation results are generated in four color spaces (RGB, rgb, YIQ, I1I2I3) and two individual color components (I3, Q). The number of clusters is varied from 2 to 6. The experiment was carried out on fifty images of acne patients. The performance of the proposed technique is measured in terms of the three mostly used metrics; sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy. Best results were obtained for Q and I3 color components of YIQ and I1I2I3 color spaces with the number of clusters equal to three. These color components show robustness against non-uniform illumination and maximize the gap between the lesion and skin color.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects: Q Science > Q Science (General)
T Technology > T Technology (General)
Departments / MOR / COE: Departments > Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Research Institutes > Institute for Health Analytics
Depositing User: Dr Aamir Saeed Malik
Date Deposited: 07 Oct 2016 01:42
Last Modified: 07 Oct 2016 01:42
URI: http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/11831

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