Deep Learning for Diagnostic Binary Classification of Multiple-Lesion Skin Diseases
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- Deep Learning for Diagnostic Binary Classification of Multiple-Lesion Skin Diseases
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Background:Diagnosis of skin diseases is often challenging and computer-aided diagnostic tools are urgently needed to underpin decision making. Objective:To develop a convolutional neural network model to classify clinically relevant selected multiple-lesion skin diseases, this in accordance to the STARD guidelines. Methods:This was an image-based retrospective study using multi-task learning for binary classification. A VGG-16 model was trained on 16,543 non-standardized images. Image data was distributed in training set (80%), validation set (10%), and test set (10%). All images were collected from a clinical database of a Danish population attending one dermatological department. Included was patients categorized with ICD-10 codes related to acne, rosacea, psoriasis, eczema, and cutaneous t-cell lymphoma. Results:Acne was distinguished from rosacea with a sensitivity of 85.42% CI 72.24-93.93% and a specificity of 89.53% CI 83.97-93.68%, cutaneous t-cell lymphoma was distinguished from eczema with a sensitivity of 74.29% CI 67.82-80.05% and a specificity of 84.09% CI 80.83-86.99%, and psoriasis from eczema with a sensitivity of 81.79% CI 78.51-84.76% and a specificity of 73.57% CI 69.76-77.13%. All results were based on the test set. Conclusion:The performance rates reported were equal or superior to those reported for general practitioners with dermatological training, indicating that computer-aided diagnostic models based on convolutional neural network may potentially be employed for diagnosing multiple-lesion skin diseases.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 574329 |
Journal | Frontiers in Medicine |
Volume | 7 |
Number of pages | 7 |
ISSN | 2296-858X |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
- deep neural network (DNN), dermatology, skin disease, acne, rosacea, psoriasis, cutaneous T cell lymphoma (CTCL), ezcema, DERMATOLOGISTS, PREVALENCE, MEDICINE, CANCER, CARE
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