Research Article

Entropy and Gaussian Filter-Based Adaptive Active Contour for Segmentation of Skin Lesions

Table 1

Summary of existing segmentation methods.

ReferenceApproachDisadvantages

Stoecker et al. [15]Gray-level co-occurrence matrix for texture featureThe presence of artifacts like shining areas and shadows caused by light makes the process of segmentation of skin lesion images more complicated.

Stoecker and Scharcanski [22]Four different algorithmsTo identify the region of nuclei which used the intensity and size of nuclei as a parameter

Sonali and Kamat [23]Combined thresholding with fuzzy C-meansIt may not perform well over images with huge variations in skin colors

Manju Bharathi and Sarswati [24]NC ratio analysis for automatic segmentation of cellsPerformance degrades over lesions of varying sizes and shapes

Jeniva and Santhi [25]Learning model of natural skin texture and cancer texturesA lot of difference between specific kinds of cancer and the surrounding area of skin

Kumar et al. [26]Local region recursive segmentation, K-means clustering, and local double ellipse descriptorIt may not perform well over images with huge variations in skin colors

Abbadi and Miry [27]Thresholding and Wiener filterLow lesion-to-skin gradient, depigmentation, multiple tumor regions

Lu et al. [28]Mean shift, local region recursive segmentation, and local double ellipse descriptorThis method is computationally complex

Baral, Gonnade, and Verma [29]Neuro-fuzzy model and some other featuresComplex thresholding approaches