m-Skin Doctor: A Mobile Enabled System for Early Melanoma Skin Cancer Detection Using Support Vector Machine Muhammad Aleem Taufiq 1 , Nazia Hameed 2(&) , Adeel Anjum 1 , and Fozia Hameed 3 1 COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan {aleem.taufiq,adeel.anjum}@comsats.edu.pk 2 Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, UK nazia.hameed@pgr.anglia.ac.uk 3 King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia fhameed@kku.edu.sa Abstract. Early detection of skin cancer is very important as it is one of the dangerous form of cancer spreading vigorously among humans. With the advancement of mobile technology; mobile enabled skin cancer detection sys- tems are really demanding but currently very few real time skin cancer detection systems are available for general public and mostly available are the paid. In this paper authors proposed a real time mobile enabled health care system for the detection of skin melanoma for general users. Proposed system is developed using computer vision and image processing techniques. Noise is removed by applying the Gaussian filter. For segmentation Grab Cut algorithm is used. Support Vector Machine (SVM) is applied as a classification technique on the texture features like area, perimeter, eccentricity etc. The sensitivity and specificity rate achieved by the m-Skin Doctor is 80% and 75% respectively. The average time consumed by the application for classifying one image is 14938 ms. Keywords: Skin cancer Á Melanoma Á Computer aided systems Á Mobile application Á Health care systems Á Machine learning 1 Introduction Human skin consists of different layers with unique, distinct functions and optical properties. Epidermis being an outermost layer protects the human from harmful sunlight and ultraviolet (UV) radiations. It largely composes of the connecting tissues and also contains melanin producing cells, melanocytes and melanin; product of melanocytes and its producing cells as shown in Fig. 1. Melanin is the pigment which absorbs the light in the ultra violet spectrum and protects the deeper layers of the skin. Then come the dermis layer; which is made up of collagen fibers and it contains sensors, receptors, nerve ends and the blood vessels [1]. Skin cancer is the abnormal growth of tissues in the skin. At present the skin abnormal tissues are mainly classified in two types: benign and malignant. Benign © ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2017 K. Giokas et al. (Eds.): eHealth 2016, LNICST 181, pp. 468–475, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49655-9_57