Detection of malignant melanomas in dermoscopic images using convolutional neural network with transfer learning

Abstract

In this work, we report the use of convolutional neural networks for the detection of malignant melanomas against nevus skin lesions in a dataset of dermoscopic images of the same magnification. The technique of transfer learning is utilized to compensate for the limited size of the available image dataset. Results show that including transfer learning in training CNN architectures improves significantly the achieved classification results. © Springer International Publishing AG 2017.