An approach to the dermatological classification of histopathological skin images using a hybridized CNNDenseNet model

A De, Nilamadhab Mishra, HT Chang

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Abstract

This research addresses the challenge of automating skin disease diagnosis using dermatoscopic images. The primary issue lies in accurately classifying pigmented skin lesions, which traditionally rely on manual assessment by dermatologists and are prone to subjectivity and time consumption. By integrating a hybrid CNN-DenseNet model, this study aimed to overcome the complexities of differentiating various skin diseases and automating the diagnostic process effectively. Our methodology involved rigorous data preprocessing, exploratory data analysis, normalization, and label encoding. Techniques such as model hybridization, batch normalization and data fitting were employed to optimize the model architecture and data fitting. Initial iterations of our convolutional neural network (CNN) model achieved an accuracy of 76.22% on the test data and 75.69% on the validation data. Recognizing the need for improvement, the model was hybridized with DenseNet architecture and ResNet architecture was implemented for feature extraction and then further trained on the HAM10000 and PAD-UFES-20 datasets. Overall, our efforts resulted in a hybrid model that demonstrated an impressive accuracy of 95.7% on the HAM10000 dataset and 91.07% on the PAD-UFES-20 dataset. In comparison to recently published works, our model stands out because of its potential to effectively diagnose skin diseases such as melanocytic nevi, melanoma, benign keratosis-like lesions, basal cell carcinoma, actinic keratoses, vascular lesions, and dermatofibroma, all of which rival the diagnostic accuracy of real-world clinical specialists but also offer customization potential for more nuanced clinical uses.

Original languageEnglish
Pagese1884
Number of pages33
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 02 2024

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Keywords

  • Confocal microscopy analysis
  • Convolutional neural networks
  • Hybridized densenet model
  • Multiclass classification
  • Skin disease classification
  • Skin histopathological image analysis

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