Optimized Deep CNN with Deviation Relevance-based LBP for Skin Cancer Detection: Hybrid Metaheuristic Enabled Feature Selection

Segmentation of skin lesions is a significant and demanding task in dermoscopy images. This paper proposes a new skin cancer recognition scheme, with: “Pre-processing, Segmentation, Feature extraction, Optimal Feature Selection and Classification”. Here, pre-processing is done with certain processes. The pre-processed images are segmented via the “Otsu Thresholding model”. The third phase is feature extraction, where Deviation Relevance-based “Local Binary Pattern (DRLBP), Gray-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix (GLCM) features and Gray Level Run-Length Matrix (GLRM) features” are extracted. From these extracted features, the optimal features are chosen via Particle Updated WOA (PU-WOA) model. Subsequently, classification occurs via Optimized DCNN and NN to classify the skin lesion. To make the classification more precise, the DCNN is optimized by the introduced algorithm. The result has shown a higher accuracy of 0.998737, when compared with other extant models like IPSO, IWOA, PSO+CNN, WOA+CNN and CNN schemes.