Use of Radiation Circuits for Diagnosis of Melanoma Skin Cancer in Images of Skin Lesions Using Convolutional Neural Networks

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Melanoma skin cancer is a fatal illness. However, most melanomas can be treated with minimal surgery if found early. In this regard, the addition of image analysis techniques that automate skin cancer diagnosis would support and increase dermatologists’ diagnosis accuracy. As a result, enhanced melanoma detection can benefit patients who are showing indicators of the disease. Convolutional neural networks can learn from features hierarchically. Since the implementation of a neural network requires a large volume of images to achieve high accuracy rates, an insufficient number of skin cancer images represent an additional challenge in the detection of skin lesions; the current work aims to develop an intelligent system that allows, based on the analysis of images of skin lesions and contextual information of the patient, to accurately determine if it represents a case of melanoma‐type skin cancer. The TensorFlow library was used to execute models in the constructed app. The Mobilenet V2 model was used with a collection of 305 pictures retrieved from the Internet. Diagnoses included melanoma, plaque and psoriatic skin conditions, and Kaposi’s sarcoma and atopic dermatitis. There were two separate machines used to conduct the application tests. There was more than 75% acceptable performance in predicting Kaposi’s sarcoma‐like illnesses for melanoma‐like lesions, as well as plaque psoriasis and atopic dermatitis, respectively. Despite the low amount of images used in training, the constructed mobile application performed well.