CVMar 4, 2017

Skin Lesion Classification Using Deep Multi-scale Convolutional Neural Networks

arXiv:1703.01402v17 citations
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This work addresses automated diagnosis of skin lesions for medical imaging, but it appears incremental as it applies an existing method to a specific dataset.

The authors tackled skin lesion classification by fine-tuning a pre-trained Inception-v3 network on multi-scale input images for the ISIC 2017 challenge, but no concrete results or numbers are provided in the abstract.

We present a deep learning approach to the ISIC 2017 Skin Lesion Classification Challenge using a multi-scale convolutional neural network. Our approach utilizes an Inception-v3 network pre-trained on the ImageNet dataset, which is fine-tuned for skin lesion classification using two different scales of input images.

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