Comparison of Methods in Skin Pigment Decomposition
This work addresses the problem of accurate skin pigment decomposition for medical professionals, but it is incremental as it primarily reviews existing methods and adds a minor enhancement.
The paper reviews and compares various methods for decomposing skin pigment into hemoglobin and melanin, with the goal of aiding skin cancer diagnosis, and introduces Isomap to improve dimensionality reduction performance in this context.
Decomposition of skin pigment plays an important role in medical fields. Human skin can be decomposed into two primitive components, hemoglobin and melanin. It is our goal to apply these results for diagnosis of skin cancer. In this paper, various methods for skin pigment decomposition are reviewed comparatively and the performance of each method is evaluated both theoretically and experimentally. In addition, isometric feature mapping (Isomap) is introduced in order to improve the dimensionality reduction performance in context of skin pigment decomposition.