Deep Learning Ensembles for Melanoma Recognition in Dermoscopy Images

Understand

Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer.

• While curable with early detection, only highly trained specialists are capable of accurately recognizing the disease.
• As expertise is in limited supply, automated systems capable of identifying disease could save lives, reduce unnecessary biopsies, and reduce costs.
• Toward this goal, we propose a system that combines recent developments in deep learning with established machine learning approaches, creating ensembles of methods that are capable of segmenting skin lesions, as well as analyzing the detected area and surrounding tissue for melanoma detection.