Artificial neural network classification-based skin cancer detection

  • Authors

    • M. Shyamala Devi
    • A.N. Sruthi
    • P. Balamurugan
    2017-12-21
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i1.1.10364
  • , Skin Cancer, Artificial Neural Network, Segmentation, Wavelet Transform, Back Propagation.
  • At present, skin cancers are extremely the most severe and life-threatening kind of cancer. The majority of the pores and skin cancers are completely remediable at premature periods. Therefore, a premature recognition of pores and skin cancer can effectively protect the patients. Due to the progress of modern technology, premature recognition is very easy to identify. It is not extremely complicated to discover the affected pores and skin cancers with the exploitation of Artificial Neural Network (ANN). The treatment procedure exploits image processing strategies and Artificial Intelligence. It must be noted that, the dermoscopy photograph of pores and skin cancer is effectively determined and it is processed to several pre-processing for the purpose of noise eradication and enrichment in image quality. Subsequently, the photograph is distributed through image segmentation by means of thresholding. Few components distinctive for skin most cancers regions. These features are mined the practice of function extraction scheme - 2D Wavelet Transform scheme. These outcomes are provides to the Back-Propagation Neural (BPN) Network for effective classification. This completely categorizes the data set into either cancerous or non-cancerous. 

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    Devi, M. S., Sruthi, A., & Balamurugan, P. (2017). Artificial neural network classification-based skin cancer detection. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(1.1), 591-593. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i1.1.10364