Original Research ArticleRecognition of images of finger skin with application of histogram, image filtration and K-NN classifier
Introduction
Recognition of the medical images is a difficult problem in the analysis of digital images. The first problem is image acquisition. There are many devices to take images with various resolution. The second problem is to select proper processing methods to recognize pathology or biological variation. There are many methods of preprocessing, feature extraction and classification. There are also problems with different: age, gender and race of analyzed patients.
In the literature scientists develop many techniques of recognition of medical images [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12]. Many of them are related to perfusion images [7], [8], [9], [10]. Techniques based on thermal images are presented in recent years [11], [12]. Some of them are also related to recognition of pathology of human skins [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18]. Human skin can vary in color and appearance. Often this makes the task of recognition very difficult. Pathology of the human skin may lead to malignant melanoma. It is the most dangerous type of skin cancer [19], [20], [21]. In this paper Authors developed method of recognition of injured (Fig. 1) and healthy human finger (Fig. 2). The advantage of the presented method is analysis of the finger skin using a smartphone.
Most of previous approaches were related to finger vein [22], [23], [24]. Injured human fingers were common skin injury. It was a reason to analyze this kind of injury.
Section 1 describes general information about problems of recognition of human skin and short survey of literature. Section 2 presents the method of recognition of finger skin. Analysis of images of finger skin is discussed in Section 3. Conclusions of the article are presented in the last Section.
Section snippets
Proposed method of recognition of image of finger skin
Authors used smartphone (Colorovo CityTone) for acquisition of images. There is possibility to use other digital camera or smartphone. Next obtained images were copied to the computer (Intel Core i7-4702MQ, 16GB RAM, Windows 8, Matlab 2014b). Images were used as training and test images for process of recognition (proposed technique of recognition). The process of recognition of images of finger skin had 2 steps: pattern creation process and identification process (Fig. 3).
Both of them had
The results of recognition of images of injured human finger
Researches were carried out for three kinds of images mentioned in Section 2.1. The pattern creation process was conducted using 15 training images. The identification process used 60 test images.
Efficiency of image recognition was expressed as:where E – efficiency of image recognition, NoCITI – number of correctly identified test images, NoATI – number of all test images.
The results of recognition of image of human finger with application of image filtration, histogram and
Discussion and conclusions
In this paper authors analyzed capabilities of recognition of proposed technique. This technique was based on image processing methods such as: extraction of magenta color, calculation of histogram, image filtration, calculation of perimeter, and K-NN classifier. The best results were obtained for k = 1 and k = 3 and image filtration, histogram and K-NN (100%). The pattern creation process was conducted using 15 training images. The identification process used 60 test images.
The first problem was
Acknowledgments
This work has been supported by AGH University of Science and Technology, grant nr 11.11.120.612, grant nr 11.11.120.354. We thank reviewers for their valuable suggestions.
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