Skin cancer identification utilizing deep learning: A survey

Abstract Melanoma, a highly prevalent and lethal form of skin cancer, has a significant impact globally. The chances of recovery for melanoma patients substantially improve with early detection. Currently, deep learning (DL) methods are gaining popularity in assisting with the early identification o...

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Main Authors: Dulani Meedeniya, Senuri De Silva, Lahiru Gamage, Uditha Isuranga
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Published: Wiley 2024-11-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1049/ipr2.13219
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Senuri De Silva
Lahiru Gamage
Uditha Isuranga
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description Abstract Melanoma, a highly prevalent and lethal form of skin cancer, has a significant impact globally. The chances of recovery for melanoma patients substantially improve with early detection. Currently, deep learning (DL) methods are gaining popularity in assisting with the early identification of melanoma. Despite their high performance, relying solely on an image classifier undermines the credibility of the application and makes it difficult to understand the rationale behind the model's predictions highlighting the need for Explainable AI (XAI). This study provides a survey on skin cancer identification using DL techniques utilized in studies from 2017 to 2024. Compared to existing survey studies, the authors address the latest related studies covering several public skin cancer image datasets and focusing on segmentation, classification based on convolutional neural networks and vision transformers, and explainability. The analysis and the comparisons of the existing studies will be beneficial for the researchers and developers in this area, to identify the suitable techniques to be used for automated skin cancer image classification. Thereby, the survey findings can be used to implement support applications advancing the skin cancer diagnosis process.
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spelling doaj-art-97b3a4f8356f4aa1bd4e18a7cbaac7e02024-11-13T04:42:31ZengWileyIET Image Processing1751-96591751-96672024-11-0118133731374910.1049/ipr2.13219Skin cancer identification utilizing deep learning: A surveyDulani Meedeniya0Senuri De Silva1Lahiru Gamage2Uditha Isuranga3Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Moratuwa Moratuwa Sri LankaDepartment of Anatomy Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine National University of Singapore Singapore SingaporeDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering University of Moratuwa Moratuwa Sri LankaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering University of Moratuwa Moratuwa Sri LankaAbstract Melanoma, a highly prevalent and lethal form of skin cancer, has a significant impact globally. The chances of recovery for melanoma patients substantially improve with early detection. Currently, deep learning (DL) methods are gaining popularity in assisting with the early identification of melanoma. Despite their high performance, relying solely on an image classifier undermines the credibility of the application and makes it difficult to understand the rationale behind the model's predictions highlighting the need for Explainable AI (XAI). This study provides a survey on skin cancer identification using DL techniques utilized in studies from 2017 to 2024. Compared to existing survey studies, the authors address the latest related studies covering several public skin cancer image datasets and focusing on segmentation, classification based on convolutional neural networks and vision transformers, and explainability. The analysis and the comparisons of the existing studies will be beneficial for the researchers and developers in this area, to identify the suitable techniques to be used for automated skin cancer image classification. Thereby, the survey findings can be used to implement support applications advancing the skin cancer diagnosis process.https://doi.org/10.1049/ipr2.13219computer visionimage classificationimage segmentationreviewsskin
spellingShingle Dulani Meedeniya
Senuri De Silva
Lahiru Gamage
Uditha Isuranga
Skin cancer identification utilizing deep learning: A survey
IET Image Processing
computer vision
image classification
image segmentation
reviews
skin
title Skin cancer identification utilizing deep learning: A survey
title_full Skin cancer identification utilizing deep learning: A survey
title_fullStr Skin cancer identification utilizing deep learning: A survey
title_full_unstemmed Skin cancer identification utilizing deep learning: A survey
title_short Skin cancer identification utilizing deep learning: A survey
title_sort skin cancer identification utilizing deep learning a survey
topic computer vision
image classification
image segmentation
reviews
skin
url https://doi.org/10.1049/ipr2.13219
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