Binary Classification of Skin Cancer Images Using Pre-trained Networks with I-GWO

Abstract

One of the most prevalent forms of cancer worldwide is skin cancer. Determining disease characteristics necessitates a clinical evaluation of skin lesions, but this process is limited by long time horizons and a multiplicity of interpretations. Deep learning techniques have been created to help dermatologists with these issues as a higher patient survival rate depends on the early and precise detection of skin cancer. This research proposed a new approach for binary classification of dermoscopic images for skin cancer. The Improved Grey Wolf Optimizer (I-GWO) is used in this technique to fine-tune some hyperparameters’ values of various pre-trained deep learning networks to maximize results. SqueezeNet, ShuffleNet, AlexNet, ResNet-18, and DarkNet-19 are the pre-trained networks that were employed. We tested the MED-NODE and DermIS databases in our investigation. Concerning the MED-NODE and DermIS datasets, the proposed method's highest accuracy results are 100% and 97%, respectively.