Blue-White Veil Classification in Dermoscopy Images of the Skin Lesions Using Convolutional Neural Networks

摘要

In the dermatology, Three-Point Checklist of Dermatology is defined and it is proved to be a sufficient screening method in the skin lesions assessments during the checking by dermatology expert. In the method there is a criterion of blue-whitish veil appearance within the lesion defined and it can be classified using a binary classifier. In the paper, we show the results of CNN application to the problem of the assessment of whether the blue-white veil is present or absent within the lesion using the pre-trained VGG19 CNN network, trained and tested on the prepared images taken from the PH2 dataset.