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The Scientific community has been developing computer-aided detection systems (CADs) for automatic diagnosis of pigmented skin lesions (PSLs) for nearly 30 years. Several works have addressed this issue and obtained encouraging results, however, there has not been much focus on the pre-processing step, determining the relevance of the features considered and how they may be important indicators of a lesion’s malignancy. To differentiate between nevus and melanoma skin lesions, the development of CAD system is a challenging task due to the use of inaccurate image processing techniques. In this paper, a new classification system is developed for PSLs known as DermoDeep through a fusion of multiple visual features and deep-neural-network approach. A new aggregation of visual features along with descriptors are extracted in a perceptual-oriented color space. Moreover, a new five-layer architecture based DermoDeep system is proposed. This DermoDeep system applied on 2800 region-of-interest (ROI) PSLs including 1400 nevus and 1400 malignant lesions. The classification accuracy of DermoDeep system is compared with the state-of-the-art methods and evaluated by the sensitivity (SE), specificity (SP) and area under the receiver operating characteristics (AUC) curve. The difference between AUC of DermoDeep is statistically significant compared to other techniques with AUC: 0.96 (p < 0.001), SE of 93% and SP of 95%. The obtained results demonstrate that the DermatDeep can be used to assist dermatologists during a screening process.
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Abbas, Q., Celebi, M.E. DermoDeep-A classification of melanoma-nevus skin lesions using multi-feature fusion of visual features and deep neural network. Multimed Tools Appl 78, 23559–23580 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-7652-y
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