Conditional Random Fields and Supervised Learning in Automated Skin Lesion Diagnosis

Table 1

Comparison of our PP model’s ability to segment lesions to our CRF model and 5 previously published methods.

		Performance
		Method		PP (nearest pt.)
Method	𝑛	Sens	Spec	Sens	Spec
CRF	116	0.845	0.924	0.843	0.921
KPP [6]	116	0.765	0.770	0.941	0.763
JSEG [7]	91	0.627	0.987	0.677	0.980
DTEA [8]	116	0.597	0.986	0.638	0.985
SRM [9]	112	0.790	0.946	0.773	0.957
FSN [10]	116	0.808	0.934	0.814	0.939