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Dual Stream Network with Selective Optimization for Skin Disease Recognition in Consumer Grade Images


Abstract:

Skin disease localisation and classification on consumer-grade images is more challenging compared to that on dermoscopic imaging. Consumer grade images refer to the imag...Show More

Abstract:

Skin disease localisation and classification on consumer-grade images is more challenging compared to that on dermoscopic imaging. Consumer grade images refer to the images taken using commonly available imaging devices such as a mobile camera or a hand held digital camera. Such images, in addition to having the skin condition of interest in a very small area of the image, has other noisy non-clinical details introduced due to the lighting conditions and the distance of the hand held device from the anatomy at the time of acquisition. We propose a novel deep network architecture & a new optimization strategy for classification with implicit localisation of skin diseases from clinical/consumer grade images. A weakly supervised segmentation algorithm is first employed to extract Region of Interests (RoI) from the image, the RoI and the original image form the two input streams of the proposed architecture. Each stream of the architecture learns high level and low level features from the original image and the RoI, respectively. The two streams are independently optimised until the loss stops decreasing after which both the streams are optimised collectively with the help of a third combiner sub-network. Such a strategy resulted in a 5% increase of accuracy over the current state-of-the-art methods on SD-198 dataset, which is publicly available. The proposed algorithm is also validated on a new dataset containing over 12,000 images across 75 different skin conditions. We intend to release this dataset as SkiD-75 to aid in the advancement of research on skin condition classification on consumer grade images.
Date of Conference: 10-15 January 2021
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 05 May 2021
ISBN Information:
Print on Demand(PoD) ISSN: 1051-4651
Conference Location: Milan, Italy

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