IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI)
Vol 10, No 3: September 2021

Deep ensemble learning for skin lesions classification with convolutional neural network

Renny Amalia Pratiwi (Universitas Sriwijaya)
Siti Nurmaini (Universitas Sriwijaya)
Dian Palupi Rini (Universitas Sriwijaya)
Muhammad Naufal Rachmatullah (Universitas Sriwijaya)
Annisa Darmawahyuni (Universitas Sriwijaya)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Sep 2021

Abstract

One type of skin cancer that is considered a malignant tumor is melanoma. Such a dangerous disease can cause a lot of death in the world. The early detection of skin lesions becomes an important task in the diagnosis of skin cancer. Recently, a machine learning paradigm emerged known as deep learning (DL) utilized for skin lesions classification. However, in some previous studies by using seven class images diagnostic of skin lesions classification based on a single DL approach with CNNs architecture does not produce a satisfying performance. The DL approach allows the development of a medical image analysis system for improving performance, such as the deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) method. In this study, we propose an ensemble learning approach that combines three DCNNs architectures such as Inception V3, Inception ResNet V2 and DenseNet 201 for improving the performance in terms of accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, precision, and F1-score. Seven classes of dermoscopy image categories of skin lesions are utilized with 10015 dermoscopy images from well-known the HAM10000 dataset. The proposed model produces good classification performance with 97.23% accuracy, 90.12% sensitivity, 97.73% specificity, 82.01% precision, and 85.01% F1-Score. This method gives promising results in classifying skin lesions for cancer diagnosis.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJAI

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Engineering

Description

IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) publishes articles in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The scope covers all artificial intelligence area and its application in the following topics: neural networks; fuzzy logic; simulated biological evolution algorithms (like ...