Multi-features extraction based on deep learning for skin lesion classification.

Journal: Tissue & cell
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Abstract

For various forms of skin lesion, many different feature extraction methods have been investigated so far. Indeed, feature extraction is a crucial step in machine learning processes. In general, we can distinct handcrafted and deep learning features. In this paper, we investigate the efficiency of using 17 commonly pre-trained convolutional neural networks (CNN) architectures as feature extractors and of 24 machine learning classifiers to evaluate the classification of skin lesions from two different datasets: ISIC 2019 and PH2. In this research, we find out that a DenseNet201 combined with Fine KNN or Cubic SVM achieved the best results in accuracy (92.34% and 91.71%) for the ISIC 2019 dataset. The results also show that the suggested method outperforms others approaches with an accuracy of 99% on the PH2 dataset.

Authors

  • Samia Benyahia
    Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Exact Sciences, University of Mascara, Mascara, Algeria.
  • Boudjelal Meftah
    Laboratoire LRSBG, LGeo2E, Université Mustapha Stambouli, Mascara, Algeria.
  • Olivier Lézoray
    UNICAEN, ENSICAEN, GREYC UMR CNRS 6072, Normandie Université, Caen, France.