Title
A Deep Multi-Task Learning Approach to Skin Lesion Classification.
Abstract
Skin lesion identification is a key step toward dermatological diagnosis. When describing a skin lesion, it is very important to note its body site distribution as many skin diseases commonly affect particular parts of the body. To exploit the correlation between skin lesions and their body site distributions, in this study, we investigate the possibility of improving skin lesion classification using the additional context information provided by body location. Specifically, we build a deep multi-task learning (MTL) framework to jointly optimize skin lesion classification and body location classification (the latter is used as an inductive bias). Our MTL framework uses the state-of-the-art ImageNet pretrained model with specialized loss functions for the two related tasks. Our experiments show that the proposed MTL based method performs more robustly than its standalone (single-task) counterpart.
Year
Venue
DocType
2018
AAAI Workshops
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1812.03527
1
0.36
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Haofu Liao1276.97
Jiebo Luo26314374.00