Skin lesion segmentation has a critical role in the early and accurate diagnosis of skin cancer by computerized systems. However, automatic segmentation of skin lesions in dermoscopic images is a challenging task owing to difficulties including artifacts (hairs, gel bubbles, ruler markers), indistinct boundaries, low contrast and varying sizes and shapes of the lesion images. This paper proposes a novel and effective pipeline for skin lesion segmentation in dermoscopic images combining a deep convolutional neural network named as You Only Look Once (YOLO) and the GrabCut algorithm. This method performs lesion segmentation using a dermoscopic image in four steps: 1. Removal of hairs on the lesion, 2. Detection of the lesion location, 3. Segmentation of the lesion area from the background, 4. Post-processing with morphological operators. The method was evaluated on two publicly well-known datasets, that is the PH2 and the ISBI 2017 (Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection Challenge Dataset). The proposed pipeline model has achieved a 90% sensitivity rate on the ISBI 2017 dataset, outperforming other deep learning-based methods. The method also obtained close results according to the results obtained from other methods in the literature in terms of metrics of accuracy, specificity, Dice coefficient, and Jaccard index.
Pneumonia is a fatal disease that appears in the lungs and is caused by viral or bacterial infection. Diagnosis of pneumonia in chest X-ray images can be difficult and error-prone because of its similarity with other infections in the lungs. The aim of this study is to develop a computer-aided pneumonia detection system to facilitate the diagnosis decision process. Therefore, a convolutional neural network (CNN) ensemble method was proposed for the automatic diagnosis of pneumonia which is seen in children. In this context, seven well-known CNN models (VGG-16, VGG-19, ResNet-50, Inception-V3, Xception, MobileNet, and SqueezeNet) pre-trained on the ImageNet dataset were trained with the appropriate transfer learning and fine-tuning strategies on the chest X-ray dataset. Among the seven different models, the three most successful ones were selected for the ensemble method. The final results were obtained by combining the predictions of CNN models with the ensemble method during the test. In addition, a CNN model was trained from scratch, and the results of this model were compared with the proposed ensemble method. The proposed ensemble method achieved remarkable results with an AUC of 95.21 and a sensitivity of 97.76 on the test data. Also, the proposed ensemble method achieved classification accuracy of 90.71 in chest X-ray images as normal, viral pneumonia, and bacterial pneumonia.
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