Classification of Dermoscopy Images with Feed Forward Neural Network, Decision Trees and Random Forest

Authors : Esra ÖZTÜRK, Semra İÇER

Pages : 129-135

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Publication Date : 2021-11-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Today, cancer diseases are increasing rapidly. Although skin cancer is less common in populations than other types of cancer, it is a cancer type with a high lethality in late diagnosis. Just as harmful rays from the sun can trigger skin cancer, genetic factors are also a major factor in the formation of skin cancer. In skin cancer, the mortality rate is low in early detection, while the survival rate is low in late diagnosis. Classification of malignant insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(malignant); and benign insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(benign); lesions from dermoscopy images by using artificial neural networks is thought to facilitate early diagnosis. In this study, the data were taken from the International Collaboration on Skin Imaging insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(ISIC); data set using the ready data set. After preprocessing was applied to dermoscopy images, entropy, standard deviation, area, homogeneity, contrast, correlation, energy, skewness and kurtosis were extracted in MATLAB. Along with these features, age and gender information, which are demographic information, are also added to the features to be used for classification. These features are classified using MATLAB and WEKA programs. It is classified by feedforward neural network and decision trees algorithm in MATLAB, it is classified using WEKA program for random forest algorithm. The results were obtained by training the networks with these three methods.
Keywords : Skin cancer melanoma, melanocytic nevus, Neural Network, classification, decision trees, random forest

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