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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Deep Learning-Based Transfer Learning for Classification of Skin Cancer.

Satin Jain, Udit Singhania, Balakrushna Tripathy, Emad Abouel Nasr, Mohamed K Aboudaif, Ali K Kamrani

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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  3. [Synergistic learnable frequency and multi-scale spatial network for lightweight skin cancer classification].Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi · 2026
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6 authors.

Satin JainDepartment of Information Technology and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore 632014, Tamil Nadu, India.ORCID 0000-0002-1316-2004
Udit SinghaniaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore 632014, Tamil Nadu, India.ORCID 0000-0002-4400-2783
Balakrushna TripathyDepartment of Information Technology and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore 632014, Tamil Nadu, India.
Emad Abouel NasrIndustrial Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-6967-7747
Mohamed K AboudaifIndustrial Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-7791-6816
Ali K KamraniIndustrial Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-4008, USA.

Funding

Researcher Support Program, King Saud University RSP-2021/164
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One of the major health concerns for human society is skin cancer. When the pigments producing skin color turn carcinogenic, this disease gets contracted. A skin cancer diagnosis is a challenging process for dermatologists as many skin cancer pigments may appear similar in appearance. Hence, early detection of lesions (which form the base of skin cancer) is definitely critical and useful to completely cure the patients suffering from skin cancer. Significant progress has been made in developing automated tools for the diagnosis of skin cancer to assist dermatologists. The worldwide acceptance of artificial intelligence-supported tools has permitted usage of the enormous collection of images of lesions and benevolent sores approved by histopathology. This paper performs a comparative analysis of six different transfer learning nets for multi-class skin cancer classification by taking the HAM10000 dataset. We used replication of images of classes with low frequencies to counter the imbalance in the dataset. The transfer learning nets that were used in the analysis were VGG19, InceptionV3, InceptionResNetV2, ResNet50, Xception, and MobileNet. Results demonstrate that replication is suitable for this task, achieving high classification accuracies and F-measures with lower false negatives. It is inferred that Xception Net outperforms the rest of the transfer learning nets used for the study, with an accuracy of 90.48. It also has the highest recall, precision, and F-Measure values.

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Deep LearningSkin NeoplasmsArtificial IntelligenceEarly Detection of CancerHumansSkinartificial intelligenceCNNimage classificationskin lesiontransfer learning

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PMID34884146
PMCPMC8662405

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