@ARTICLE{Grochowski_Michał_Diagnosis_2019,
 author={Grochowski, Michał and Mikołajczyk, Agnieszka and Kwasigroch, Arkadiusz},
 volume={vol. 26},
 number={No 1},
 journal={Metrology and Measurement Systems},
 pages={65-80},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2019},
 publisher={Polish Academy of Sciences Committee on Metrology and Scientific Instrumentation},
 abstract={Malignant melanomas are the most deadly type of skin cancer, yet detected early have high chances of successful treatment. In the last twenty years, the interest in automatic recognition and classification of melanoma dynamically increased, partly because of appearing public datasets with dermatoscopic images of skin lesions. Automated computer-aided skin cancer detection in dermatoscopic images is a very challenging task due to uneven sizes of datasets, huge intra-class variation with small interclass variation, and the existence of many artifacts in the images. One of the most recognized methods of melanoma diagnosis is the ABCD method. In the paper, we propose an extended version of this method and an intelligent decision support system based on neural networks that uses its results in the form of hand-crafted features. Automatic determination of the skin features with the ABCD method is difficult due to the large diversity of images of various quality, the existence of hair, different markers and other obstacles. Therefore, it was necessary to apply advanced methods of pre-processing the images. The proposed system is an ensemble of ten neural networks working in parallel, and one network using their results to generate a final decision. This system structure enables to increase the efficiency of its operation by several percentage points compared with a single neural network. The proposed system is trained on over 5000 and tested afterwards on 200 skin moles. The presented system can be used as a decision support system for primary care physicians, as a system capable of self-examination of the skin with a dermatoscope and also as an important tool to improve biopsy decision making.},
 type={Artykuły / Articles},
 title={Diagnosis of malignant melanoma by neural network ensemble-based system utilising hand-crafted skin lesion features},
 URL={http://ochroma.man.poznan.pl/Content/110240/PDF/art_07.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/mms.2019.126327},
 keywords={decision support, diagnostics, image processing, artificial neural networks, ensemble of neural networks, melanoma malignant},
}