Apply lightweight deep learning on internet of things for low-cost and easy-to-access skin cancer detection

Pranjal Sahu; Dantong Yu; Hong Qin

doi:10.1117/12.2293350

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6 March 2018 Apply lightweight deep learning on internet of things for low-cost and easy-to-access skin cancer detection

Pranjal Sahu, Dantong Yu, Hong Qin

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Proceedings Volume 10579, Medical Imaging 2018: Imaging Informatics for Healthcare, Research, and Applications; 1057912 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293350
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2018, Houston, Texas, United States

Abstract

Melanoma is the most dangerous form of skin cancer that often resembles moles. Dermatologists often recommend regular skin examination to identify and eliminate Melanoma in its early stages. To facilitate this process, we propose a hand-held computer (smart-phone, Raspberry Pi) based assistant that classifies with the dermatologist-level accuracy skin lesion images into malignant and benign and works in a standalone mobile device without requiring network connectivity. In this paper, we propose and implement a hybrid approach based on advanced deep learning model and domain-specific knowledge and features that dermatologists use for the inspection purpose to improve the accuracy of classification between benign and malignant skin lesions. Here, domain-specific features include the texture of the lesion boundary, the symmetry of the mole, and the boundary characteristics of the region of interest. We also obtain standard deep features from a pre-trained network optimized for mobile devices called Google's MobileNet. The experiments conducted on ISIC 2017 skin cancer classification challenge demonstrate the effectiveness and complementary nature of these hybrid features over the standard deep features. We performed experiments with the training, testing and validation data splits provided in the competition. Our method achieved area of 0.805 under the receiver operating characteristic curve. Our ultimate goal is to extend the trained model in a commercial hand-held mobile and sensor device such as Raspberry Pi and democratize the access to preventive health care.

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Pranjal Sahu, Dantong Yu, and Hong Qin "Apply lightweight deep learning on internet of things for low-cost and easy-to-access skin cancer detection", Proc. SPIE 10579, Medical Imaging 2018: Imaging Informatics for Healthcare, Research, and Applications, 1057912 (6 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293350

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