Characterization of border structure using fractal dimension in melanomas

CARBONETTO, S.; LEW, S. E.

Buenos Aires

Conferencia; Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE; 2010

There are many characteristics that differentiate normal moles (nevi) from melanomas. One of them is their boundary irregularity, which can be quantified using Fractal Dimension. In this work, fractal dimension of normal moles and melanoma was computed using the box counting method. These measurements were used to train a linear decoder in order to predict the pathology. The average performance to discriminate normal moles from melanomas reached 85% giving some insights about the power of the fractal dimension as a candidate for automatic detection and diagnosis.