Computer Aided Diagnosis of Atopic Dermatitis

•The novel, fully automatic method for the characteristic hypoechoic band segmentation in atopic dermatitis assessment•The first described usage of 75MHz US probe in computer aided diagnosis of AD•The accuracy verified on 45 clinical images and the statistically proven benefits of using the developed framework•he method outperforms other approaches resulting in Dice index 0,874 and 0,883 estimated for 2 expert delineations, whereas the inter expert Dice index is equal to 0,87.