European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

SURVEY AND SEGMENTATION OF SKIN LESION

Asmita Ray and *Prof. Samir Kumar Bandyopadhyay

ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT
Skin cancers are the most common and hazardous form of cancers in humans. It is very important to detect such types of cancer at an earlier stage. Early detection helps to save life. Early detection of skin cancer is possible with the advancement of technology. There are three main types of skin cancer such as Melanoma, Basal and Squamous cell Carcinoma. Basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma are the two most common types skin cancer called non-melanoma skin cancer. Melanoma which is called malignant melanoma is rarer and most serious skin cancer needs to be detected at early stage as this skin cancer directly lead to the death of a person. Early detection of Melanoma skin cancer is completely curable. The aim of this study is to provide an efficient way to segment the skin cancer images. For this purpose a novel method is proposed for the segmentation of skin lesion from unaffected skin region in an image.

Keywords: Melanoma, Basal and Squamous Cell Carcinoma.