• Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
  • Vol. 57, Issue 18, 181020 (2020)
Guoliang Yang, Zhendong Lai*, and Yang Wang
Author Affiliations
  • School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, Jiangxi 341000, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/LOP57.181020 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Guoliang Yang, Zhendong Lai, Yang Wang. Skin Lesion Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on Multi-Scale DenseNet[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2020, 57(18): 181020 Copy Citation Text show less
    Dense connection mechanism of DenseNet
    Fig. 1. Dense connection mechanism of DenseNet
    Flow chat of skin lesion image segmentation algorithm based on MSDN
    Fig. 2. Flow chat of skin lesion image segmentation algorithm based on MSDN
    Structural diagram. (a) PMBS1 module; (b) PMBS2 module
    Fig. 3. Structural diagram. (a) PMBS1 module; (b) PMBS2 module
    Network structure of pyramid pooling model
    Fig. 4. Network structure of pyramid pooling model
    Architecture of MSDN
    Fig. 5. Architecture of MSDN
    Features of skin lesion images in ISBI 2016 dataset
    Fig. 6. Features of skin lesion images in ISBI 2016 dataset
    Image pre-processing. (a) Original lesion image; (b) outcome of closing morphological operation for artifacts removal; (c) resultant smooth image; (d) sharp image after convolution of un-sharped filter
    Fig. 7. Image pre-processing. (a) Original lesion image; (b) outcome of closing morphological operation for artifacts removal; (c) resultant smooth image; (d) sharp image after convolution of un-sharped filter
    Segmentation results using different algorithms. (a) Input images; (b) labels; (c) results by MSDN; (d) results by U-Net; (e) results by FCN
    Fig. 8. Segmentation results using different algorithms. (a) Input images; (b) labels; (c) results by MSDN; (d) results by U-Net; (e) results by FCN
    (α, β, γ)Acc /%Dic /%Jac /%Sen /%Spe /%
    (0.6, 0.4, 0.3)94.1993.2189.3088.0896.12
    (0.7, 0.3, 0.7)94.3193.9389.2689.5396.32
    (0.8, 0.2, 0.5)93.8792.6889.1690.2395.44
    (0.9, 0.1, 0.6)93.0792.0388.6988.1295.63
    (0.7, 0.3, 0.5)95.4896.3793.4192.9396.49
    Table 1. Results of comparative experiments
    ExperimentAcc /%Dic /%Jac /%Sen /%Spe /%
    MSDN-PPB94.5094.3092.1192.6695.50
    MSDN-LTotal95.3292.9089.1389.0096.48
    MSDN95.4896.3793.4192.9396.49
    Table 2. Performance evaluation of MSDN in ISBI 2016 dataset under different conditions
    MethodAcc /%Dic /%Jac /%Sen /%Spe /%
    EXB95.3091.0084.3091.0096.50
    CUMED94.9089.7082.9091.1095.70
    Mahudur95.2089.5082.2088.0096.90
    SFU-mial94.4088.5081.1091.5095.50
    TMUteam94.6088.8081.0083.2098.70
    FCN94.1388.6481.3791.7094.90
    MFCN[14]95.5191.1884.6492.1796.54
    J-FCN[15]95.5091.2084.7091.8096.60
    SSLS[16]84.6769.9757.2070.0497.31
    MSDN95.4896.3793.4192.9396.49
    Table 3. Performance comparison of segmentation results in ISIB 2016 dataset
    Guoliang Yang, Zhendong Lai, Yang Wang. Skin Lesion Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on Multi-Scale DenseNet[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2020, 57(18): 181020
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