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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Modified U-NET Architecture for Segmentation of Skin Lesion.

Vatsala Anand, Sheifali Gupta, Deepika Koundal, Soumya Ranjan Nayak, Paolo Barsocchi, Akash Kumar Bhoi

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Vatsala AnandChitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Punjab 140401, India.
Sheifali GuptaChitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Punjab 140401, India.
Deepika KoundalDepartment of Systemics, School of Computer Science, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun 248007, India.
Soumya Ranjan NayakAmity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida 201301, India.ORCID 0000-0002-4155-884X
Paolo BarsocchiInstitute of Information Science and Technologies, National Research Council, 56124 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6862-7593
Akash Kumar BhoiInstitute of Information Science and Technologies, National Research Council, 56124 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2759-3224

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Abstract

Dermoscopy images can be classified more accurately if skin lesions or nodules are segmented. Because of their fuzzy borders, irregular boundaries, inter- and intra-class variances, and so on, nodule segmentation is a difficult task. For the segmentation of skin lesions from dermoscopic pictures, several algorithms have been developed. However, their accuracy lags well behind the industry standard. In this paper, a modified U-Net architecture is proposed by modifying the feature map's dimension for an accurate and automatic segmentation of dermoscopic images. Apart from this, more kernels to the feature map allowed for a more precise extraction of the nodule. We evaluated the effectiveness of the proposed model by considering several hyper parameters such as epochs, batch size, and the types of optimizers, testing it with augmentation techniques implemented to enhance the amount of photos available in the PH2 dataset. The best performance achieved by the proposed model is with an Adam optimizer using a batch size of 8 and 75 epochs.

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MelanomaSkin DiseasesSkin NeoplasmsAlgorithmsDermoscopyHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedNeural Networks, Computerconvolutional neural networkdeep learningimage analysissegmentationskin diseaseU-Net

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PMID35161613
PMCPMC8838042

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