Segmenting skin ulcers based on thresholding and watershed segmentation

Skin ulcers can be the outcome of a cancerous tumor, or it could be due to an infection, or may be due to a pressure sore, or by vein problems. It can also be caused due to prolonged pressure on tissues or as an result of the increase of the UV Radiation due to the ozone depletion. In the modern ascensions of the electronic field, segmentation of skin ulcers using camera images has turned out to be an emergent area in the medical image processing discipline. Skin ulcer segmentation helps the user to determine the precise size of the ulcers. We have suggested a synergistic and an effective algorithm for the detection of skin ulcers based on watershed, and threshold segmentation and morphological operators. In this proposed approach we enhance the quality of the ulcer images acquired by the camera and then to detect the size of the skin ulcers, the morphological operators are applied.