Title
The Application of Deep Learning in the Risk Grading of Skin Tumors for Patients Using Clinical Images.
Abstract
According to diagnostic criteria, skin tumors can be divided into three categories: benign, low degree and high degree malignancy. For high degree malignant skin tumors, if not detected in time, they can do serious harm to patients’ health. However, in clinical practice, identifying malignant degree requires biopsy and pathological examination which is time costly. Furthermore, in many areas, due to the severe shortage of dermatologists, it’s inconvenient for patients to go to hospital for examination. Therefore, an easy to access screening method of malignant skin tumors is needed urgently. Firstly, we spend 5 years to build a dataset which includes 4,500 images of 10 kinds of skin tumors. All instances are verified pathologically thus trustworthy; Secondly, we label each instance to be either low-risk, high-risk or dangerous in which Junctional nevus, Intradermal nevus, Dermatofibroma, Lipoma and Seborrheic keratosis are low-risk, Basal cell carcinoma, Bowen’s disease and Actinic keratosis are high-risk, Squamous cell carcinoma and Malignant melanoma are dangerous; Thirdly, we apply the Xception architecture to build the risk degree classifier. The area under the curve (AUC) for three risk degrees reach 0.959, 0.919 and 0.947 respectively. To further evaluate the validity of the proposed risk degree classifier, we conduct a competition with 20 professional dermatologists. The results showed the proposed classifier outperforms dermatologists. Our system is helpful to patients in preliminary screening. It can identify the patients who are at risk and alert them to go to hospital for further examination.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s10916-019-1414-2
Journal of Medical Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Convolutional neural network, Skin tumor, Risk grade, Preliminary screening
Junctional nevus,Data mining,Basal cell carcinoma,Intradermal Nevus,Lipoma,Seborrheic keratosis,Malignancy,Actinic keratosis,Dermatology,Medicine,Carcinoma
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
43
8
0148-5598
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.35
0
Authors
15
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xinyu Zhao131.04
Xian Wu249536.50
Fangfang Li3112.56
Yi Li431.38
Weihong Huang532.06
Kai Huang630.71
Xiaoyu He731.72
Wei Fan820.35
Zhe Wu9107.04
Mingliang Chen10907.06
J.X. Li11403113.63
Zhong-Ling Luo1220.35
Juan Su1321.37
Bin Xie1462.80
Shuang Zhao153012.77