CS-AF: A Cost-sensitive Multi-classifier Active Fusion Framework for Skin Lesion Classification

04/25/2020
by   Di Zhuang, et al.
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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance in skin lesion analysis. Compared with single CNN classifier, combining the results of multiple classifiers via fusion approaches shows to be more effective and robust. Since the skin lesion datasets are usually limited and statistically biased, while designing an effective fusion approach, it is important to consider not only the performance of each classifier on the training/validation dataset, but also the relative discriminative power (e.g., confidence) of each classifier regarding an individual sample in the testing phase, which calls for an active fusion approach. Furthermore, in skin lesion analysis, the data of certain classes is usually abundant making them an over-represented majority (e.g., benign lesions), while the data of some other classes is deficient, making them an underrepresented minority (e.g., cancerous lesions). It is more crucial to precisely identify the samples from an underrepresented (i.e., in terms of the amount of data) but more important (e.g., the cancerous lesions) minority class. In other words, misclassifying a more severe lesion to a benign or less severe lesion should have relative more cost (e.g., money, time and even lives). To address such challenges, we present CS-AF, a cost-sensitive multi-classifier active fusion framework for skin lesion classification. In the experimental evaluation, we prepared 60 base classifiers (of 10 CNN architectures) on the ISIC research datasets. Our experimental results show that our framework consistently outperforms the static fusion competitors.

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