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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Towards Accurate Diagnosis of Skin Lesions Using Feedforward Back Propagation Neural Networks.

Simona Moldovanu, Cristian-Dragos Obreja, Keka C Biswas, Luminita Moraru

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Simona MoldovanuFaculty of Automation, Computers, Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, 47 Domneasca Str., 800008 Galati, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-5934-329X
Cristian-Dragos ObrejaThe Modelling & Simulation Laboratory, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, 47 Domneasca Str., 800008 Galati, Romania.
Keka C BiswasDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA.
Luminita MoraruThe Modelling & Simulation Laboratory, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, 47 Domneasca Str., 800008 Galati, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-9121-5714
"Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati · ROUniversity of Alabama in Huntsville · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the automatic detection framework, there have been many attempts to develop models for real-time melanoma detection. To effectively discriminate benign and malign skin lesions, this work investigates sixty different architectures of the Feedforward Back Propagation Network (FFBPN), based on shape asymmetry for an optimal structural design that includes both the hidden neuron number and the input data selection. The reason for the choice of shape asymmetry was based on the 5-10% disagreement between dermatologists regarding the efficacy of asymmetry in the diagnosis of malignant melanoma. Asymmetry is quantified based on lesion shape (contour), moment of inertia of the lesion shape and histograms. The FFBPN has a high architecture flexibility, which indicates it as a favorable tool to avoid the over-parameterization of the ANN and, equally, to discard those redundant input datasets that usually result in poor test performance. The FFBPN was tested on four public image datasets containing melanoma, dysplastic nevus and nevus images. Experimental results on multiple benchmark data sets demonstrate that asymmetry

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architecture optimizationasymmetryclassificationfeedforward neural networksmelanomanon-melanoma

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PMCPMC8224667
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