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ArticleCancers2023

SBXception: A Shallower and Broader Xception Architecture for Efficient Classification of Skin Lesions.

Abid Mehmood, Yonis Gulzar, Qazi Mudassar Ilyas, Abdoh Jabbari, Muneer Ahmad, Sajid Iqbal

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Article in Cancers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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Abid MehmoodDepartment of Management Information Systems, College of Business Administration, King Faisal University, Al Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-9974-9537
Yonis GulzarDepartment of Management Information Systems, College of Business Administration, King Faisal University, Al Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-6515-1569
Qazi Mudassar IlyasDepartment of Information Systems, College of Computer Sciences and Information Technology, King Faisal University, Al Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-4238-8093
Abdoh JabbariCollege of Computer Science and Information Technology, Jazan University, Jazan 45142, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-9628-675X
Muneer AhmadDepartment of Human and Digital Interface, Woosong University, Daejeon 34606, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-5047-1108
Sajid IqbalDepartment of Information Systems, College of Computer Sciences and Information Technology, King Faisal University, Al Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia.

Funding

King Faisal University Deanship of Scientific Research, Vice Presidency for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia, under the Project GRANT3,498.
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Abstract

Skin cancer is a major public health concern around the world. Skin cancer identification is critical for effective treatment and improved results. Deep learning models have shown considerable promise in assisting dermatologists in skin cancer diagnosis. This study proposes SBXception: a shallower and broader variant of the Xception network. It uses Xception as the base model for skin cancer classification and increases its performance by reducing the depth and expanding the breadth of the architecture. We used the HAM10000 dataset, which contains 10,015 dermatoscopic images of skin lesions classified into seven categories, for training and testing the proposed model. Using the HAM10000 dataset, we fine-tuned the new model and reached an accuracy of 96.97% on a holdout test set. SBXception also achieved significant performance enhancement with 54.27% fewer training parameters and reduced training time compared to the base model. Our findings show that reducing and expanding the Xception model architecture can greatly improve its performance in skin cancer categorization.

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cancersdeep learningmachine learningskin cancerskin lesions

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PMCPMC10377736

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