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Automatic detection of hemangiomas using unsupervised segmentation of regions of interest

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In this paper we compare the performances of three automatic methods of identifying hemangioma regions in images: 1) unsupervised segmentation using the Otsu method, 2) Fuzzy C-means clustering (FCM) and 3) an improved region growing algorithm based on FCM (RG-FCM). For each image, the starting point of the algorithms is a rectangular region of interest (ROI) containing the hemangioma. For computing the performances of each method, the ROIs had been manually labeled in 2 classes: pixels of hemangioma and pixels of non-hemangioma. The computed scores are given separately for each image, as well as global performances across all ROIs for both classes. The best classification of non-hemangioma pixels is obtained by FCM (90.98%), but RG-FCM offers the best classification for hemangioma pixels (91.51%) and also the best overall performance taking into account both classes (90.27%).