title: Extraction of acne lesion in acne patients from multispectral images.
abstract: In acne treatment, it is important to accurately evaluate the severity of Acne. The acne should be classified into several skin lesions including comedo, reddish papule, pustule, and scar. However, in some cases, a visual detection from RGB image maybe difficult for the proper evaluation of acne skin lesions. This paper proposes an extraction method using the spectral information of the various type of acne skin lesions calculated from the multispectral images (MSI) of the lesions. In the experiment, we showed the possibility of classifying acne lesion types by applying a combination of several linear discriminant functions (LDF's).
authors.affiliation: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Imaging Science and Engineering Laboratory 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan. fujii@ isl.titech.ac.jp
authors.forename: Hideaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fujii
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yanagisawa
authors.forename: Masanori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mitsui
authors.forename: Yuri
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Murakami
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.forename: Nagaaki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ohyama
authors.forename: Tokiya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: Ikumi
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Yokoi
authors.forename: Yoshie
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsuoka
authors.forename: Yasuo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kubota
mesh_terms: D000152:Acne Vulgaris / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D000465:Algorithms; D003880:Dermatology / Q000379:methods; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D005145:Face; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology*; D013053:Spectrophotometry / Q000379:methods