Pigmented Skin Lesions Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks

Abstract

In this paper we present an architecture for classification of pigmented skin lesions from dermatoscopic images. The architecture is using image pre-processing for natural hair removal and image segmentation for extraction of the skin lesion area. The segmented images were processed by a convolutional neural network classifier. The training process was done by using the Keras and TensorFlow python packets with CUDA supported. The best performance was achieved by a convolutional neural network architecture with three convolution layers and the classification accuracy was equal to 76.83%.