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Convolutional neural networks for the detection of malignant melanoma in dermoscopy images
Dominika Kwiatkowska1, Piotr Kluska2, Adam Reich1
1Department of Dermatology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszow University, Rzeszow, Poland.
Introduction:
Convolutional neural networks gained popularity due to their ability to detect and classify objects in images and videos. It gives also an opportunity to use them for medical tasks in such specialties like dermatology, radiology or ophthalmology. The aim of this study was to investigate the ability of convolutional neural networks to classify malignant melanoma in dermoscopy images.
Aim:
To examine the usefulness of deep learning models in malignant melanoma detection based on dermoscopy images.
Material And Methods:
Four convolutional neural networks were trained on open source dataset containing dermoscopy images of seven types of skin lesions. To evaluate the performance of artificial neural networks, the precision, sensitivity, F1 score, specificity and area under the receiver operating curve were calculated. In addition, an ensemble of all neural networks' ability of proper malignant melanoma classification was compared with the results achieved by every single network.
Results:
The best convolutional neural network achieved on average 0.88 precision, 0.83 sensitivity, 0.85 F1 score and 0.99 specificity in the classification of all skin lesion types.
Conclusions:
Artificial neural networks might be helpful in malignant melanoma detection in dermoscopy images.
