Infantile Hemangioma Detection using Deep Learning

Infantile hemangiomas are the most common type of benign tumor which appear in the first weeks of life. As currently there is no robust protocol to monitor and assess the hemangioma status, this study proposes a preliminary method to detect the lesion. Therefore, in this paper we describe a hemangiomas classifier based on a linear convolutional neural network architecture. The challenge was to achieve a good classification using a relatively small internal database of 240 images from 40 different patients. The results are promising as the CNN performance evaluation showed a level of accuracy on the test set of 93.84%. Five metrics were calculated to assess the proposed model performances: accuracy, positive predicted value, negative predicted value, sensitivity and specificity.