Skin Lesions Detection and Classification Using Deep Learning

Abstract

The skin lesion is considered the most widespread malignant disease in individuals, and melanoma is the deadliest form of the disease. Early detection affects the prognosis of the disease and improves the chances of survival. Dermatologists use scientific calculation tools such as ABCD to diagnose melanoma through visual inspection of the mole. However, computer vision tools have been presented to support the quantitative scrutiny of skin lesions. Significant improvements to deep learning algorithms in image recognition tasks should be very successful in medical image examination, particularly in the classification of skin lesions used to diagnose melanoma. In this research, a deep learning simulation with 38 layers to detect and classify skin lesions was proposed. Two datasets were used for training and testing i.e., the HAM10000 dataset & the ISIC2019 dataset. Experimental results show that the model outperforms on both the datasets hence making it nondependent of the dataset. 94.45% of validation top 3 accuracies are achieved on the HAM10000 dataset & 93.06% of validation top 3 accuracies are achieved on the ISIC2019 dataset.