A novel and efficient approach for the classification of skin melanoma

Melanoma is a very common type of skin cancer that is an out-of-control growth of the cell. The detection of melanoma is very crucial in clinical practice due to irregularity in the shape of border and difference of tissue. Even though there are several methods proposed in literature, the identification of melanoma is still a complex process. This work proposes a novel Color Local Directional Pattern-based feature extraction technique for the...