Multiclass skin lesion localization and classification using deep learning based features fusion and selection framework for smart healthcare.

Journal: Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The idea of smart healthcare has gradually gained attention as a result of the information technology industry's rapid development. Smart healthcare uses next-generation technologies i.e., artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT), to intelligently transform current medical methods to make them more efficient, dependable and individualized. One of the most prominent uses of telemedicine and e-health in medical image analysis is teledermatology. Telecommunications technologies are used in this industry to send medical information to professionals. Teledermatology is a useful method for the identification of skin lesions, particularly in rural locations, because the skin is visually perceptible. One of the most recent tools for diagnosing skin cancer is dermoscopy. To classify skin malignancies, numerous computational approaches have been proposed in the literature. However, difficulties still exist i.e., lesions with low contrast, imbalanced datasets, high level of memory complexity, and the extraction of redundant features.

Authors

  • Sarmad Maqsood
    Department of Software Engineering, Kaunas University of Technology, 51368 Kaunas, Lithuania.
  • Robertas Damaševičius
    Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland.