You might not think of electrical engineers as being leaders in medical research. But at UMR, EE researchers like R. Joe Stanley and Randy Moss have been working for several years on developing a method to detect skin cancer via digital imaging. Some of their latest work, published in the February issue of the scientific journal Skin Research and Technology, may help physicians better detect melanoma based on skin lesion color.
Lead author Stanley, along with Moss and Rolla dermatologist William V. Stoecker, used a color histogram technique to evaluate dermoscopy images of skin lesions. The results of their experiment "appear to indicate that the melanoma color feature information is located in the interior of the lesion." Their report describes techniques to possibly determine whether a lesion might be malignant based on relative color.
The researchers' paper is available as a PDF from Skin Research and Technology.
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