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SkinLesNet: Classification of Skin Lesions and Detection of Melanoma Cancer Using a Novel Multi-Layer Deep Convolutional Neural Network

Azeem, Muhammad; Kiani, Kaveh; Mansouri, Taha; Topping, Nathan

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Authors

Muhammad Azeem

Nathan Topping



Abstract

Skin cancer is a widespread disease that typically develops on the skin due to frequent exposure to sunlight. Although cancer can appear on any part of the human body, skin cancer accounts for a significant proportion of all new cancer diagnoses worldwide. There are substantial obstacles to the precise diagnosis and classification of skin lesions because of morphological variety and indistinguishable characteristics across skin malignancies. Recently, deep learning models have been used in the field of image-based skin-lesion diagnosis and have demonstrated diagnostic efficiency on par with that of dermatologists. To increase classification efficiency and accuracy for skin lesions, a cutting-edge multi-layer deep convolutional neural network termed SkinLesNet was built in this study. The dataset used in this study was extracted from the PAD-UFES-20 dataset and was augmented. The PAD-UFES-20-Modified dataset includes three common forms of skin lesions: seborrheic keratosis, nevus, and melanoma. To comprehensively assess SkinLesNet’s performance, its evaluation was expanded beyond the PAD-UFES-20-Modified dataset. Two additional datasets, HAM10000 and ISIC2017, were included, and SkinLesNet was compared to the widely used ResNet50 and VGG16 models. This broader evaluation confirmed SkinLesNet’s effectiveness, as it consistently outperformed both benchmarks across all datasets.

Citation

Azeem, M., Kiani, K., Mansouri, T., & Topping, N. (2023). SkinLesNet: Classification of Skin Lesions and Detection of Melanoma Cancer Using a Novel Multi-Layer Deep Convolutional Neural Network. Cancers, 16(1), 108. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers16010108

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 22, 2023
Online Publication Date Dec 24, 2023
Publication Date Dec 24, 2023
Deposit Date Dec 29, 2023
Publicly Available Date Jan 3, 2024
Journal Cancers
Publisher MDPI
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 16
Issue 1
Pages 108
DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers16010108
Keywords Cancer Research, Oncology

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