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Thus, early detection and diagnosis are closely related to survival rates. Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems carry out a pre-diagnosis of a skin lesion based on clinical criteria or global patterns associated with its structure. A CAD system is essentially composed by three modules: (i) lesion segmentation, (ii) feature extraction, and (iii) classification. In this work, a methodology is proposed for a CAD system development that detects global patterns using texture descriptors based on statistical measurements that allow melanoma detection from dermoscopic images. Image analysis was carried out using spatial domain methods, statistical measurements were used for feature extraction, and a classifier based on cellular automata (ACA) was used for classification. The proposed model was applied to dermoscopic images obtained from the PH2 database, and it was compared with other models using accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity as metrics. With the proposed model, values of 0.978, 0.944, and 0.987 of accuracy, sensitivity and specificity, respectively, were obtained. The results of the evaluated metrics show that the proposed method is more effective than other state-of-the-art methods for melanoma detection in dermoscopic images.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/computers11010008","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,5]],"date-time":"2022-01-05T20:42:16Z","timestamp":1641415336000},"page":"8","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Melanoma Detection in Dermoscopic Images Using a Cellular Automata Classifier"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3519-6328","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Benjam\u00edn","family":"Luna-Benoso","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Escuela Superior de C\u00f3mputo, Instituto Polit\u00e9cnico Nacional, Mexico City 07738, Mexico"}]},{"given":"Jos\u00e9 Cruz","family":"Mart\u00ednez-Perales","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Escuela Superior de C\u00f3mputo, Instituto Polit\u00e9cnico Nacional, Mexico City 07738, Mexico"}]},{"given":"Jorge","family":"Cort\u00e9s-Galicia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Escuela Superior de C\u00f3mputo, Instituto Polit\u00e9cnico Nacional, Mexico City 07738, Mexico"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8557-9941","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rolando","family":"Flores-Carapia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centro de Innovaci\u00f3n y Desarrollo Tecnol\u00f3gico en C\u00f3mputo, Instituto Polit\u00e9cnico Nacional, Mexico City 07738, Mexico"}]},{"given":"V\u00edctor Manuel","family":"Silva-Garc\u00eda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centro de Innovaci\u00f3n y Desarrollo Tecnol\u00f3gico en C\u00f3mputo, Instituto Polit\u00e9cnico Nacional, Mexico City 07738, Mexico"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"92","DOI":"10.1016\/j.eswa.2017.05.003","article-title":"Effective features to classify skin lesions in dermoscopic images","volume":"84","author":"Zhen","year":"2017","journal-title":"Expert Syst. 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