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Skin Lesions Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks in Clinical Images

2018-12-06Code Available0· sign in to hype

Danilo Barros Mendes, Nilton Correia da Silva

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Skin lesions are conditions that appear on a patient due to many different reasons. One of these can be because of an abnormal growth in skin tissue, defined as cancer. This disease plagues more than 14.1 million patients and had been the cause of more than 8.2 million deaths, worldwide. Therefore, the construction of a classification model for 12 lesions, including Malignant Melanoma and Basal Cell Carcinoma, is proposed. Furthermore, in this work, it is used a ResNet-152 architecture, which was trained over 3,797 images, later augmented by a factor of 29 times, using positional, scale, and lighting transformations. Finally, the network was tested with 956 images and achieve an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.96 for Melanoma and 0.91 for Basal Cell Carcinoma.

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