EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF LESION SEGMENTATION ON THE DETECTION OF SKIN CANCER BY PRE-TRAINED CNN MODELS

Bektaş, Jale | Bektaş, Yasin | Kangal, Evrim Ersin

Early diagnosis of melanoma, which is considered to be one of the deadliest skin cancers, via medical imaging can significantly improve the course of the disease. However, expert assessments are subjective and open to errors due to large variations in dermoscopy images. To cope with this problem, a two-stage framework is proposed for the detection of melanoma in dermoscopic images. Firstly, by eliminating the presence of natural structures such as veins or hair and the variations in the pattern region, segmented images are obtained from raw image data with the help of pixel-wise image processing techniques. The second part of this framework is the recognition stage of the skin lesions by Pre-Trained Deep Networks (PTN). By using segmented input images, the PTN classifiers are optimized wit...