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Mahdi Abbasi

Mahdi Abbasi

Academic rank: Associate Professor
ORCID:
Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 54902628100
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
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Phone: 09183176343

Research

Title
SkinNet: A Hybrid Convolutional Learning Approach and Transformer Module Through Bi-directional Feature Fusion
Type
Presentation
Keywords
Melanoma cancer , Dermoscopy image , Convolutional neural network , Transformer architecture
Year
2022
Researchers Khosro Rezaeei ، Mohammad Reza Khosravi ، Lianyong Qui ، Mahdi Abbasi

Abstract

In light of melanoma's aggressive nature and complex structure, deep learning algorithms are the most effective way to diagnose the disease. Using bi-branch networks and the Transformer Module (TM), this study proposes to diagnose many lesions from dermoscopy images (DIs). Transformer's global input field features allow us to extract global features by selecting network branches rather than modifying the convolution kernel size. The bi-directional feature fusion architecture, Transformer and CNN branches are combined in this paper to extract more detailed features from the network. Further, our architecture proposes a bi-directional, two-branch configuration of features. In order to test the validity of the proposed technique, we examined large number of DIs. Dermoscopy images correctly classified 96.85% of the eight tissue classes in ISIC-2019. As opposed to current methodologies that categorize skin lesions into two categories, we classified all skin lesions in our study, including melanoma, as multi-class lesions. Additionally, it is possible to simplify and expedite melanoma detection by automating and speeding up the identification process.