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Research paper thumbnail of Recognition of skin melanoma through dermoscopic image analysis

Melanoma skin cancer diagnosis can be challenging due to the similarities of the early stage symp... more Melanoma skin cancer diagnosis can be challenging due to the similarities of the early stage symptoms with regular moles. Standardized visual parameters can be determined and characterized to suspect a melanoma cancer type. The automation of this diagnosis could have an impact in the medical field by providing a tool to support the specialists with high accuracy. The objective of this study is to develop an algorithm trained to distinguish a highly probable melanoma from a non-dangerous mole by the segmentation and classification of dermoscopic mole images. We evaluate our approach on the dataset provided by the International Skin Imaging Collaboration used in the International Challenge Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection. For the segmentation task, we apply a preprocessing algorithm and use Otsu's thresholding in the best performing color space; the average Jaccard Index in the test dataset is 70.05%. For the subsequent classification stage, we use joint histograms...

Research paper thumbnail of Classifying image sequences of astronomical transients with deep neural networks

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020

Supervised classification of temporal sequences of astronomical images into meaningful transient ... more Supervised classification of temporal sequences of astronomical images into meaningful transient astrophysical phenomena has been considered a hard problem because it requires the intervention of human experts. The classifier uses the expert’s knowledge to find heuristic features to process the images, for instance, by performing image subtraction or by extracting sparse information such as flux time-series, also known as light curves. We present a successful deep learning approach that learns directly from imaging data. Our method models explicitly the spatiotemporal patterns with deep convolutional neural networks and gated recurrent units. We train these deep neural networks using 1.3 million real astronomical images from the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey to classify the sequences into five different types of astronomical transient classes. The TAO-Net (for Transient Astronomical Objects Network) architecture outperforms the results from random forest classification on ligh...

Research paper thumbnail of Recognition of skin melanoma through dermoscopic image analysis

Melanoma skin cancer diagnosis can be challenging due to the similarities of the early stage symp... more Melanoma skin cancer diagnosis can be challenging due to the similarities of the early stage symptoms with regular moles. Standardized visual parameters can be determined and characterized to suspect a melanoma cancer type. The automation of this diagnosis could have an impact in the medical field by providing a tool to support the specialists with high accuracy. The objective of this study is to develop an algorithm trained to distinguish a highly probable melanoma from a non-dangerous mole by the segmentation and classification of dermoscopic mole images. We evaluate our approach on the dataset provided by the International Skin Imaging Collaboration used in the International Challenge Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection. For the segmentation task, we apply a preprocessing algorithm and use Otsu's thresholding in the best performing color space; the average Jaccard Index in the test dataset is 70.05%. For the subsequent classification stage, we use joint histograms...

Research paper thumbnail of Classifying image sequences of astronomical transients with deep neural networks

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020

Supervised classification of temporal sequences of astronomical images into meaningful transient ... more Supervised classification of temporal sequences of astronomical images into meaningful transient astrophysical phenomena has been considered a hard problem because it requires the intervention of human experts. The classifier uses the expert’s knowledge to find heuristic features to process the images, for instance, by performing image subtraction or by extracting sparse information such as flux time-series, also known as light curves. We present a successful deep learning approach that learns directly from imaging data. Our method models explicitly the spatiotemporal patterns with deep convolutional neural networks and gated recurrent units. We train these deep neural networks using 1.3 million real astronomical images from the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey to classify the sequences into five different types of astronomical transient classes. The TAO-Net (for Transient Astronomical Objects Network) architecture outperforms the results from random forest classification on ligh...

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