Melanoma is considered the most serious type of skin cancer. All over the world, the mortality rate is much high for melanoma in contrast with other cancer. There are various computer-aided solutions proposed to correctly identify melanoma cancer. However, the difficult visual appearance of the nevus makes it very difficult to design a reliable Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system for accurate melanoma detection. Existing systems either uses traditional machine learning models and focus on handpicked suitable features or uses deep learning-based methods that use complete images for feature learning. The automatic and most discriminative feature extraction for skin cancer remains an important research problem that can further be used to better deep learning training. Furthermore, the availability of the limited available images also creates a problem for deep learning models. From this line of research, we propose an intelligent Region of Interest (ROI) based system to identify and discriminate melanoma with nevus cancer by using the transfer learning approach. An improved k-mean algorithm is used to extract ROIs from the images. These ROI based approach helps to identify discriminative features as the images containing only melanoma cells are used to train system. We further use a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based transfer learning model with data augmentation for ROI images of DermIS and DermQuest datasets. The proposed system gives 97.9% and 97.4% accuracy for DermIS and DermQuest respectively. The proposed ROI based transfer learning approach outperforms existing methods that use complete images for classification.
Students' feedback is crucial for academic institutions in order to evaluate faculty performance. Handling the qualitative opinions of students efficiently while automatic report generation is a challenging task. Indeed, most organizations deal with quantitative feedback effectively, whereas qualitative feedback is either processed manually or ignored altogether. This study proposes a supervised aspect based opinion mining system based on two-layered LSTM model. The first layer predicts the aspects described within the feedback and later specifies the orientation (positive, negative, and neutral) of those predicted aspects. The model was tested on a manually tagged data set constructed from the last five years students' comments from Sukkur IBA University as well as on a standard SemEval-2014 data set. Unlike many other LSTM models proposed for other domains, the proposed model is quite simple in terms of architecture which results in less complexity. The system attains a good accuracy using the domain embedding layer in both tasks: aspect extraction (91%) and sentiment polarity detection (93%). To the best of our knowledge, this study is a first attempt that uses deep learning approach for performing aspect based sentiment analysis on students' feedback for evaluating faculty teaching performance.
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