Table 7.
Melanoma detection performance using color-based weighted graph features. The skin lesion feature descriptors include local features (C), global features (G), local and global features (C+G), graph Fourier transform features (GFT), local, global and GFT features (C+G+GFT), local, global and conventional features (C+G+Conv), GFT and conventional features (GFT+Conv) and the combination of all features (All). The performance metrics for each classifier are the accuracy (AC), specificity (SP) and sensitivity (SN)
| C | G | C+G | GFT | C+G+GFT | C+G+Conv | GFT+Conv | All | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AC | 61.25 | 59.0 | 59.69 | 52.6 | 58.65 | 90.83 | 90.83 | 89.45 | |
| SVM | AUC | 62.11 | 62.44 | 64.02 | 56.81 | 61.84 | 99.21 | 98.94 | 98.95 |
| (RBF) | SN | 63.32 | 53.63 | 56.4 | 56.4 | 56.75 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| SP | 59.86 | 65.4 | 64.71 | 58.48 | 64.71 | 82.35 | 82.01 | 79.58 | |
| AC | 59.52 | 59.52 | 58.48 | 52.08 | 59.69 | 77.68 | 78.89 | 75.61 | |
| SVM | AUC | 52.45 | 62.38 | 47.65 | 53.1 | 46.06 | 87.95 | 86.54 | 86.66 |
| (Sigmoid) | SN | 70.59 | 50.52 | 68.17 | 57.44 | 69.55 | 95.16 | 92.73 | 95.85 |
| SP | 52.94 | 68.86 | 55.36 | 54.67 | 56.06 | 66.44 | 66.09 | 61.94 | |
| AC | 52.25 | 50.0 | 52.94 | 50.35 | 51.9 | 94.46 | 89.97 | 94.29 | |
| SVM | AUC | 52.45 | 62.38 | 47.65 | 53.1 | 46.06 | 87.95 | 86.54 | 86.66 |
| (Poly) | SN | 11.76 | 1.73 | 15.22 | 17.65 | 8.651 | 96.19 | 96.54 | 95.5 |
| SP | 93.08 | 100.0 | 93.43 | 94.12 | 96.19 | 93.08 | 85.47 | 94.46 | |
| AC | 57.61 | 54.84 | 57.61 | 58.65 | 57.44 | 86.51 | 83.74 | 87.02 | |
| KNN | AUC | 60.49 | 56.66 | 60.48 | 59.14 | 59.62 | 96.55 | 96.62 | 96.29 |
| SN | 46.71 | 52.25 | 50.52 | 53.63 | 50.52 | 98.27 | 99.31 | 99.31 | |
| SP | 75.09 | 61.25 | 71.28 | 65.05 | 72.32 | 74.74 | 69.9 | 77.16 | |
| AC | 57.79 | 60.38 | 59.17 | 52.94 | 59.69 | 90.83 | 89.27 | 89.79 | |
| MLP | AUC | 60.24 | 62.32 | 63.99 | 54.39 | 57.59 | 98.89 | 99.29 | 98.85 |
| SN | 57.44 | 58.82 | 49.13 | 47.4 | 52.6 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | |
| SP | 64.36 | 63.67 | 69.55 | 58.82 | 67.82 | 83.74 | 78.89 | 81.66 | |
| AC | 50.87 | 54.15 | 51.38 | 50.35 | 51.56 | 98.27 | 97.4 | 97.58 | |
| RF | AUC | 61.82 | 60.52 | 64.54 | 55.97 | 63.82 | 99.86 | 99.89 | 99.8 |
| SN | 2.076 | 26.99 | 3.46 | 3.114 | 3.46 | 99.65 | 100.0 | 98.96 | |
| SP | 100.0 | 85.12 | 100.0 | 99.31 | 100.0 | 97.58 | 96.19 | 96.89 |