Image-Processing Scheme to Detect Superficial Fungal Infections of the Skin

Table 2

Performance of the processing steps in the reduction of false-positive structures.

	Circular reflections	Irregular reflections	Cellulose fibers	Misc. particles
Total number in test dataset	90	90	44	19
After segmentation	40	90	47	30
Sorted out by
Intensity	0	0	17	12
Circularity	21	0	0	2
Histogram analysis	2	65	1	0
Width calculation	15	12	23	14
Recognized as hyphae	2	13	6	2
Detection rate	98%	86%	86%	89%