Research Projects for Master Dissertation
Design and construction of an imaging device for skin lesion evaluation
Motivation
Computerised analysis of skin lesions is a recent field of research and is mostly concerned with detection of cutaneous melanoma, the most common type of skin cancer. However, skin lesions can have other causes, such as Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Although SLE diagnosis does not relies on skin lesion characterisation, their evolution in time should be quantitatively measured in order to allow its correlation with treatment outcome and progression of the disease. So far, their analysis by an specialist is very time consuming and subjective and does not count with specialised devices and computer tools.
Purpose
To develop an imaging device that allows one to acquire images in a controlled environment and under some ideal conditions (illumination, resolution, distance, focus) in order to produce high quality images for further computerized lesion analysis.
Bibliography
Motivation
Computerised analysis of skin lesions is a recent field of research and is mostly concerned with detection of cutaneous melanoma, the most common type of skin cancer. However, skin lesions can have other causes, such as Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Although SLE diagnosis does not relies on skin lesion characterisation, their evolution in time should be quantitatively measured in order to allow its correlation with treatment outcome and progression of the disease. So far, their analysis by an specialist is very time consuming and subjective and does not count with specialised devices and computer tools.
Purpose
To develop an imaging device that allows one to acquire images in a controlled environment and under some ideal conditions (illumination, resolution, distance, focus) in order to produce high quality images for further computerized lesion analysis.
Bibliography
- Maglogiannis I, Doukas C, Overview of advanced computer vision systems for skin lesions characterisation, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 13 (5) (2009), pp. 721–733
- Korotkov K, Garcia R, Computerized analysis of pigmented skin lesions: A review, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Volume 56, Issue 2, October 2012, Pages 69-90.