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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

SCDNet: A Deep Learning-Based Framework for the Multiclassification of Skin Cancer Using Dermoscopy Images.

Ahmad Naeem, Tayyaba Anees, Makhmoor Fiza, Rizwan Ali Naqvi, Seung-Won Lee

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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Ahmad NaeemDepartment of Computer Science, University of Management and Technology, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0001-9705-386X
Tayyaba AneesDepartment of Software Engineering, University of Management and Technology, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0003-2266-9322
Makhmoor FizaDepartment of Management Sciences and Technology, Begum Nusrat Bhutto Women University, Sukkur 65200, Pakistan.
Rizwan Ali NaqviDepartment of Unmanned Vehicle Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-7473-8441
Seung-Won LeeDepartment of Data Science, College of Software Convergence, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-5632-5208

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea NRF2022R1G1A101022611
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Skin cancer is a deadly disease, and its early diagnosis enhances the chances of survival. Deep learning algorithms for skin cancer detection have become popular in recent years. A novel framework based on deep learning is proposed in this study for the multiclassification of skin cancer types such as Melanoma, Melanocytic Nevi, Basal Cell Carcinoma and Benign Keratosis. The proposed model is named as SCDNet which combines Vgg16 with convolutional neural networks (CNN) for the classification of different types of skin cancer. Moreover, the accuracy of the proposed method is also compared with the four state-of-the-art pre-trained classifiers in the medical domain named Resnet 50, Inception v3, AlexNet and Vgg19. The performance of the proposed SCDNet classifier, as well as the four state-of-the-art classifiers, is evaluated using the ISIC 2019 dataset. The accuracy rate of the proposed SDCNet is 96.91% for the multiclassification of skin cancer whereas, the accuracy rates for Resnet 50, Alexnet, Vgg19 and Inception-v3 are 95.21%, 93.14%, 94.25% and 92.54%, respectively. The results showed that the proposed SCDNet performed better than the competing classifiers.

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Deep LearningMelanomaSkin NeoplasmsDermoscopyHumansNeural Networks, Computerautomated/computer aided diagnosisbiomedical imagemelanomaskin cancertransfer learning

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PMID35957209
PMCPMC9371071

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