Digital Assessment of Facial Acne Vulgaris

Acne affects 85% of adolescents at some time during their lives. Dermatologists use manual methods such as direct visual assessment and ordinary flash photography to assess the acne. However, these manual methods are time consuming and may result in intra-observer and inter-observer variations, even...

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主要な著者: Malik, Aamir Saeed, Ramli, Roshaslinie, Hani, Ahmad Fadzil M, Salih, Yasir, Yap, Felix Boon-Bin, Nisar, Humaira
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出版事項: 2014
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オンライン・アクセス:http://eprints.utp.edu.my/11406/1/Digital%20assessment%20of%20facial%20acne%20vulgaris%20-%20Paper.pdf
http://eprints.utp.edu.my/11406/
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要約:Acne affects 85% of adolescents at some time during their lives. Dermatologists use manual methods such as direct visual assessment and ordinary flash photography to assess the acne. However, these manual methods are time consuming and may result in intra-observer and inter-observer variations, even by experienced dermatologists. The objective of this research is to develop a computational imaging method for automated acne grading. The first step in the proposed method is pre-processing which involves lighting compensation. The CIE La*b* color space is used to measure any dissimilarity between skin colors. Acne segmentation has been performed using automated modified K-means clustering algorithm and support vector machines (SVM) classifier. Color and diameter are the main features extracted to classify acne blobs into different acne classes; papule, pustule, nodule or cyst. Finally, the severity level is determined such as mild, moderate, severe and very severe. Keywords-K-means clustering, SVM Classifier, Feature Extraction, Acne Grading System