Segmentation of Melanoma Skin Lesion Using Perceptual Color Difference Saliency with Morphological Analysis

Table 1

Comparative algorithms with descriptions.

Algorithm	Description
Otsu	Conventional Otsu thresholding algorithm applied to skin lesion segmentation.
-means	Conventional -means clustering algorithm applied to skin lesion segmentation.
FCM	Conventional fuzzy -means clustering algorithm applied to skin lesion segmentation.
Modified JSEG	The modified JSEG image segmentation algorithm applied to skin lesion segmentation.
SWDOtsu	The conventional Otsu thresholding algorithm applied to threshold the saliency map computed by the spatially weighted dissimilarity (SWD) algorithm.
PCAOtsu	The conventional Otsu thresholding algorithm applied to threshold the saliency map computed by the principal component analysis (PCA) algorithm.
MCOtsu	The conventional Otsu thresholding algorithm applied to threshold the saliency map computed by the Markov chain (MC) algorithm.
SSLSOtsu	The conventional Otsu thresholding algorithm applied to threshold the saliency map computed by the saliency based skin lesion segmentation (SSLS) algorithm.
PCDSOtsu	The conventional Otsu thresholding algorithm applied to threshold the saliency map computed by the perceptual color difference saliency (PCDS) algorithm.
PCDS	The perceptual color difference saliency (PCDS) algorithm with a simple thresholding decision rule applied for binary segmentation of the saliency map.