Liu S, Chen R, Gu Y, Yu Q, Su G, Ren Y, Huang L, Zhou F. AcneTyper: An automatic diagnosis method of dermoscopic acne image via self-ensemble and stacking.
Technol Health Care 2022:THC220295. [PMID:
36617797 DOI:
10.3233/thc-220295]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
Acne is a skin lesion type widely existing in adolescents, and poses computational challenges for automatic diagnosis. Computer vision algorithms are utilized to detect and determine different subtypes of acne. Most of the existing acne detection algorithms are based on the facial natural images, which carry noisy factors like illuminations.
OBJECTIVE
In order to tackle this issue, this study collected a dataset ACNEDer of dermoscopic acne images with annotations. Deep learning methods have demonstrated powerful capabilities in automatic acne diagnosis, and they usually release the training epoch with the best performance as the delivered model.
METHODS
This study proposes a novel self-ensemble and stacking-based framework AcneTyper for diagnosing the acne subtypes. Instead of delivering the best epoch, AcneTyper consolidates the prediction results of all training epochs as the latent features and stacks the best subset of these latent features for distinguishing different acne subtypes.
RESULTS
The proposed AcneTyper framework achieves a promising detection performance of acne subtypes and even outperforms a clinical dermatologist with two-year experiences by 6.8% in accuracy.
CONCLUSION
The method we proposed is used to determine different subtypes of acne and outperforms inexperienced dermatologists and contributes to reducing the probability of misdiagnosis.
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