Multi-class Semantic Segmentation of Skin Lesions via Fully Convolutional Networks
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چکیده
Early detection of skin cancer, particularly melanoma, is crucial to enable advanced treatment. Due to the rapid growth of skin cancers, there is a growing need of computerized analysis for skin lesions. These processes including detection, classification, and segmentation. There are three main types of skin lesions in common that are benign nevi, melanoma, and seborrhoeic keratoses which have huge intra-class variations in terms of color, size, place and appearance for each class and high inter-class visual similarities in dermoscopic images. The majority of current research is focusing on melanoma segmentation, but it is also very important to segment the seborrhoeic keratoses and benign nevi lesions as these regions potentially indicate the pre-cancer stage. We propose a multiclass semantic segmentation for these three classes from publicly available ISBI-2017 challenge dataset which consists of 2750 dermoscopic images. We propose an end-to-end solution using fully convolutional networks (FCNs) for multi-class semantic segmentation, which will automatically segment the melanoma, keratoses and benign lesions. To overcome the issue of data deficiency, we propose a transfer learning approach which uses both partial transfer learning and full transfer learning to train FCNs for multi-class semantic segmentation of skin lesions. The results are presented in Dice Similarity Coefficient (Dice) to compare the performance of the deep learning segmentation methods on the dataset with 5-fold cross-validation. The results showed that the two-tier level transfer learning FCN-8s achieved the overall best result with Dice score of 0.785 in a benign category, 0.653 in melanoma segmentation, and 0.557 in seborrhoeic keratoses.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1711.10449 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017