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Computational intelligence is finding more and more applications in computer aided diagnostics, helping doctors to process large quantities of various medical data [Buronni et al. 2004]. In dermatology it is extremely difficult to perform automatic diagnostic differentiation of malignant melanoma based only on dermatoscopic images. Applying artificial intelligence algorithms to explore and search large database of dermatoscopic images allow doctors to semantically filter out image with specified characteristics. This paper presents an semantic approach for characteristic objects classification found in image database of pigment skin lesions, based on radial basis function kernel for artificial neural networks. Presented approach is divided into few parts: JSEG image segmentation [Deng et al. 2001], feature extraction and classification. Prepared features vector consist of color models parts. For classification Artificial Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines are used and their performance is evaluated and compared. Success rates in both cases are greater than 90%.
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Przystalski, K., Nowak, L., Ogorzałek, M., Surówka, G. (2012). Applications of Neural Networks in Semantic Analysis of Skin Cancer Images. In: Hippe, Z.S., Kulikowski, J.L., Mroczek, T. (eds) Human – Computer Systems Interaction: Backgrounds and Applications 2. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 99. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23172-8_8
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