Arshad Sannia, Amjad Tehmina, Hussain Ayyaz, Qureshi Imran, Abbas Qaisar
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Basic and Applied Science, International Islamic University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
Department of Computer Science, Quaid e Azam University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
Diagnostics (Basel). 2023 Sep 12;13(18):2924. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics13182924.
Convolutional neural network (CNN) models have been extensively applied to skin lesions segmentation due to their information discrimination capabilities. However, CNNs' struggle to capture the connection between long-range contexts when extracting deep semantic features from lesion images, resulting in a semantic gap that causes segmentation distortion in skin lesions. Therefore, detecting the presence of differential structures such as pigment networks, globules, streaks, negative networks, and milia-like cysts becomes difficult. To resolve these issues, we have proposed an approach based on semantic-based segmentation (Dermo-Seg) to detect differential structures of lesions using a UNet model with a transfer-learning-based ResNet-50 architecture and a hybrid loss function. The Dermo-Seg model uses ResNet-50 backbone architecture as an encoder in the UNet model. We have applied a combination of focal Tversky loss and IOU loss functions to handle the dataset's highly imbalanced class ratio. The obtained results prove that the intended model performs well compared to the existing models. The dataset was acquired from various sources, such as ISIC18, ISBI17, and HAM10000, to evaluate the Dermo-Seg model. We have dealt with the data imbalance present within each class at the pixel level using our hybrid loss function. The proposed model achieves a mean IOU score of 0.53 for streaks, 0.67 for pigment networks, 0.66 for globules, 0.58 for negative networks, and 0.53 for milia-like-cysts. Overall, the Dermo-Seg model is efficient in detecting different skin lesion structures and achieved 96.4% on the IOU index. Our Dermo-Seg system improves the IOU index compared to the most recent network.
卷积神经网络(CNN)模型因其信息辨别能力而被广泛应用于皮肤病变分割。然而,CNN在从病变图像中提取深度语义特征时难以捕捉远距离上下文之间的联系,导致语义鸿沟,进而造成皮肤病变分割失真。因此,检测色素网络、小球、条纹、负网络和粟丘疹样囊肿等差异结构的存在变得困难。为了解决这些问题,我们提出了一种基于语义分割的方法(Dermo-Seg),使用具有基于迁移学习的ResNet-50架构的UNet模型和混合损失函数来检测病变的差异结构。Dermo-Seg模型在UNet模型中使用ResNet-50骨干架构作为编码器。我们应用了焦点Tversky损失和交并比(IOU)损失函数的组合来处理数据集中高度不平衡的类别比例。所得结果证明,与现有模型相比,目标模型表现良好。该数据集从ISIC18、ISBI17和HAM10000等各种来源获取,以评估Dermo-Seg模型。我们使用混合损失函数在像素级别处理每个类别中存在的数据不平衡问题。所提出的模型在条纹方面的平均IOU得分为0.53,色素网络为0.67,小球为0.66,负网络为0.58,粟丘疹样囊肿为0.53。总体而言,Dermo-Seg模型在检测不同皮肤病变结构方面效率很高,在IOU指标上达到了96.4%。与最新网络相比,我们的Dermo-Seg系统提高了IOU指标。
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