Embedded artificial intelligence system using deep learning and raspberrypi for the detection and classification of melanoma

Abstract

Melanoma is a kind of skin cancer that originates in melanocytes responsible for producing melanin, it can be a severe and potentially deadly form of cancer because it can metastasize to other regions of the body if not detected and treated early. To facilitate this process, Recently, various computer-assisted low-cost, reliable, and accurate diagnostic systems have been proposed based on artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, particularly deep learning techniques. This work proposed an innovative and intelligent system that combines the internet of things (IoT) with a Raspberry Pi connected to a camera and a deep learning model based on the deep convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithm for real-time detection and classification of melanoma cancer lesions. The key stages of our model before serializing to the Raspberry Pi: Firstly, the preprocessing part contains data cleaning, data transformation (normalization), and data augmentation to reduce overfitting when training. Then, the deep CNN algorithm is used to extract the features part. Finally, the classification part with applied Sigmoid Activation Function. The experimental results indicate the efficiency of our proposed classification system as we achieved an accuracy rate of 92%, a precision of 91%, a sensitivity of 91%, and an area under the curve- receiver operating characteristics (AUC-ROC) of 0.9133.