Abstract
Vitiligo is a pathology that causes the appearance of macules achromic (white spots) in the skin. Besides, generates a negative emotional burden in the people that have it, what make necessary to develop suitable methods to identify and treat it properly. In this paper we propose a novel system formed by two stages: The Front End where the principal characteristics of the image are extracted using the Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) and i-Vectors (techniques widely used in speech processing) and the Back End, where these characteristics are received and through a classifier is define whether and image contains or not vitiligo. Artificial Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines were selected as classifiers. Results shows that both MFCC and i-Vectors could be used in the field of image processing. Although, the i-Vectors allows us to decrease more the dimensionality of a feature vector and without losing the characteristics of the high dimensionality, this was reflected in their performance with an accuracy of 95.28% to recognize correctly images.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Advances in Emerging Trends and Technologies Volume 1 |
Editors | Miguel Botto-Tobar, Joffre León-Acurio, Angela Díaz Cadena, Práxedes Montiel Díaz |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Pages | 389-398 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783030320218 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2020 |
Event | 1st International Conference on Advances in Emerging Trends and Technologies, ICAETT 2019 - quito, Ecuador Duration: 29 May 2019 → 31 May 2019 |
Publication series
Name | Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing |
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Volume | 1066 |
ISSN (Print) | 2194-5357 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 2194-5365 |
Conference
Conference | 1st International Conference on Advances in Emerging Trends and Technologies, ICAETT 2019 |
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Country/Territory | Ecuador |
City | quito |
Period | 29/05/19 → 31/05/19 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Dimensionality reduction
- Feature extraction
- i-Vectors
- Medical image processing
- MFCC