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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2008
George Zouridakis, Houston, TX (US);
Xiaojing Yuan, Pearland, TX (US);
Ji Chen, Pearland, TX (US);
Eric Stotzer, Houston, TX (US);
Yanmin Wu, Sugarland, TX (US);
George Zouridakis, Houston, TX (US);
Xiaojing Yuan, Pearland, TX (US);
Ji Chen, Pearland, TX (US);
Eric Stotzer, Houston, TX (US);
Yanmin Wu, Sugarland, TX (US);
University of Houston, Houston, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides devices for screening the skin of an individual in real time using a region-fusion based segmentation with narrow band graph partitioning algorithm to analyze and classify a region of interest of the skin as benign or malignant. Also, provided is a method for screening the skin of an individual using the devices described herein. In addition the present invention provides a digital processor-implemented system for classifying a region of interest on the skin and a processor readable medium having processor-executable instructions to perform skin cancer detection.