Automated Skin Cancer Classification and Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Dermoscopy Images

Abstract

The uncontrolled growth of skin cells in the epidermis producing the creation of a mass termed a tumor is a dangerous condition known as skin cancer. Current developments in deep learning artificial intelligence have greatly improved image-based diagnosis. In this study, we included a Skin Lesion Cancer feature extractor Convolutional Neural Network (SLC-CNN) model, which is used for both classification with the SVM classifier and segmentation with XGBoost for skin cancer. In our proposed system, a test image of skin cancer is taken and pre-processed for both classification and segmentation purposes. After applying pre-processing, the test image features are extracted using the SLC-CNN feature extractor, which features are used in SVM to classify the types of skin cancer (Benign and Malignant), and based on the classification result, a trained XGBoost model is called to segment the cancer region. We have tested our system using the dermoscopy image collection from the International Skin Imaging Collaboration (ISIC) and built it in Google Colab to best use the GPU. Our suggested approach has gained a segmentation accuracy of 95.25% and a classification accuracy of 99.6%.