The lesion was a cutaneous horn, or cornu cutaneum, a cohesive, keratotic, protuberant mass arising from the strateum corneum, or “horny layer.” Cutaneous horns are composed of compacted keratin, ...
Regular skin exams can identify suspicious lesions, but an accurate diagnosis requires a biopsy. During the biopsy, a doctor will inject a local anesthetic in the area of the lesion and then remove a ...
A typical image preprocessing workflow. The facial image is corrected for white balance with Python's OpenCV. A square region of interest (ROI) containing the main lesion is cropped. ROIs from five ...