Fast K-Means Technique for Segmentation of Dermoscopic Images

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Authors: Saravana Kumar V., M. Kavitha, Revatthy K., Anantha Siva Prakasam, S. Bavya
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Abstract

Skin cancer remains one of the hazardous cancers diagnoses each year and accounts for more ‎than 50%. When detected at its early stage, standard and cost-effective therapies can treat it ‎successfully - classifying skin sores carefully is key to automating early end systems and ‎mitigating risk factors. Melanoma can provide both shape features and areas of desire for ‎surface examination. Unfortunately, its prevalence can be both unpredictable and lethal, ‎leading to multiple times more passes than all other skin cancers combined. The proposed ‎method demonstrates about the Fast K-Means clustering technique. It can be applied on the ‎dermoscopic skin lesion images which can convert into L*u*v. This approach is then ‎compared with the outcomes of K-Means and Fuzzy C-Means. Evaluation has carried outs ‎includes number of pixels and time complexity analysis. Crystal clear, the proposed method is ‎obviously segmented the lesion and display any visible lesions or spots on them‎.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Medical Image Segmentation Techniques Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management AI in cancer detection

Publication details

Journal / source
International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences
Volume
15
Issue
1
Pages
59–67
Publication date
12 January 2026