GDN: a stacking network used for skin cancer diagnosis

Jingmin Wei; Haoyang Shen; Ziyi Wang; Ziqian Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.2631455

1 May 2022 GDN: a stacking network used for skin cancer diagnosis

Jingmin Wei, Haoyang Shen, Ziyi Wang, Ziqian Zhang

Proceedings Volume 12171, Thirteenth International Conference on Signal Processing Systems (ICSPS 2021); 121710L (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2631455
Event: Thirteenth International Conference on Signal Processing Systems (ICSPS 2021), 2021, Shanghai, China

Abstract

Skin cancer, the primary type of cancer that can be identified by visual recognition, requires an automatic identification system that can accurately classify different types of lesions. This paper presents GoogLe-Dense Network (GDN), which is an image-classification model to identify two types of skin cancer, Basal Cell Carcinoma, and Melanoma. GDN uses stacking of different networks to enhance the model performance. Specifically, GDN consists of two sequential levels in its structure. The first level performs basic classification tasks accomplished by GoogLeNet and DenseNet, which are trained in parallel to enhance efficiency. To avoid low accuracy and long training time, the second level takes the output of the GoogLeNet and DenseNet as the input for a logistic regression model. We compare our method with four baseline networks including ResNet, VGGNet, DenseNet, and GoogLeNet on the dataset, in which GoogLeNet and DenseNet significantly outperform ResNet and VGGNet. In the second level, different stacking methods such as perceptron, logistic regression, SVM, decision trees and K-neighbor are studied in which Logistic Regression shows the best prediction result among all. The results proves that GDN, compared to a single network structure, has higher accuracy in optimizing skin cancer detection.

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Jingmin Wei, Haoyang Shen, Ziyi Wang, and Ziqian Zhang "GDN: a stacking network used for skin cancer diagnosis", Proc. SPIE 12171, Thirteenth International Conference on Signal Processing Systems (ICSPS 2021), 121710L (1 May 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2631455

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