Skin Cancer Disease Detection Using Transfer Learning Technique

Applied Sciences

Javed Rashid¹  Maryam Ishfaq²  Muhammad R. Saeed²  Ghulam Ali²  Noor Samand²  Fahad Alturise³  Tamim Alkhalifah³  Mubasher Hussain⁴ 

[1] Department of CS&SE, Islamic International University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan;Department of CS, University of Okara, Renala Khurd 56130, Pakistan;Department of Computer, College of Science and Arts in Ar Rass, Qassim University, Ar Rass 52571, Qassim, Saudi Arabia;MLC Lab, University of Okara, Renala Khurd 56130, Pakistan;

关键词: malignant melanoma;    deep learning;    skin cancer;    ISIC-2020 dataset;    MobileNetV2;   

DOI  :  10.3390/app12115714

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Melanoma is a fatal type of skin cancer; the fury spread results in a high fatality rate when the malignancy is not treated at an initial stage. The patients’ lives can be saved by accurately detecting skin cancer at an initial stage. A quick and precise diagnosis might help increase the patient’s survival rate. It necessitates the development of a computer-assisted diagnostic support system. This research proposes a novel deep transfer learning model for melanoma classification using MobileNetV2. The MobileNetV2 is a deep convolutional neural network that classifies the sample skin lesions as malignant or benign. The performance of the proposed deep learning model is evaluated using the ISIC 2020 dataset. The dataset contains less than 2% malignant samples, raising the class imbalance. Various data augmentation techniques were applied to tackle the class imbalance issue and add diversity to the dataset. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed deep learning technique outperforms state-of-the-art deep learning techniques in terms of accuracy and computational cost.

【 授权许可】

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