Automated Application of the “7-point checklist” Diagnosis Method for Skin Lesions: Estimation of Chromatic and Shape Parameters.

Abstract

Early detection of melanoma is one of the greatest challenges of dermatologic practice today. A new diagnostic method, the "ELM 7 point checklist", defines a set of seven features, based on colour and texture parameters, which describe the malignancy of a lesion. This paper describes image processing algorithms which estimate chromatic and shape parameters involved in the detection of the occurrence of two important criteria of the "7-point checklist" method