Tree structured wavelet transform signature for classification of melanoma
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2002
Abstract
The purpose of this work is to evaluate the use of a wavelet transform based tree structure in classifying skin lesion images into melanoma and dysplastic nevus classes based on the spatial/frequency information. The classification is done using the wavelet transform tree structure analysis. Development of the tree structure in the proposed method uses energy ratio thresholds obtained from a statistical analysis of the coefficients in the wavelet domain. The method is used to obtain a tree structure signature of melanoma and dysplastic nevus, which is then used to classify the data set into the two classes. Images are classified by using a semantic comparison of the wavelet transform tree structure signatures. Results show that the proposed method is effective and simple for classification based on spatial/frequency information, which also includes the textural information. © 2002 SPIE · 0277-786X/01/$15.00.
Identifier
0036028247 (Scopus)
Publication Title
Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering
External Full Text Location
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.467065
ISSN
0277786X
First Page
1085
Last Page
1091
Volume
4684 II
Recommended Citation
Patwardhan, Sachin V.; Dhawan, Atam P.; and Relue, Patricia A., "Tree structured wavelet transform signature for classification of melanoma" (2002). Faculty Publications. 14967.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/fac_pubs/14967
