Why Number of Color Difference Works Better In Detecting Melanoma Than Number of Colors: A Possible Fractal-Based Explanation

Authors

Julio Urenda, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Olga Kosheleva, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

10-2020

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-20-98

Abstract

At present, the best way to detect melanoma based on an image of a skin spot is to count the number of different colors in this image. A recent paper has shown that the detection can improve if instead of the number of colors, we use the difference between numbers of colors computed by using different thresholds. In this paper, we provide a possible fractal-based explanation for this empirical fact.