Skin Lesion Classification Using Deep Multi-scale Convolutional Neural Networks

Melanoma is a malignant tumour originating from melanocytes cells skin cells responsible for the production of melanin. The American Cancer Society estimates that in the United States alone for 2017, more than 87,000 new melanoma cases will be diagnosed and around 9,300 persons are expected to die[1]. Skin melanoma lesions are very challenging to visually diagnose due to their similarity in visual characteristics with other benign skin lesions such as nevus and seborrhoeic keratosis.