2024/09/19 by Yuan Zhang, Zhang, Yuan, Yutong Xie +9
Medicine · #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management #FOS: Computer and information sciences
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2409.12390
openalex publication_date 2024/09/19 · openalex created_date 2024/10/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The efficacy of deep learning-based Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) methods for skin diseases relies on analyzing multiple data modalities (i.e., clinical+dermoscopic images, and patient metadata) and addressing the challenges of multi-label classification. Current approaches tend to rely on limited multi-modal techniques and treat the multi-label problem as a multiple multi-class problem, overlooking issues related to imbalanced learning and multi-label correlation. This paper introduces the innovative Skin Lesion Classifier, utilizing a Multi-modal Multi-label TransFormer-based model (SkinM2Former). For multi-modal analysis, we introduce the Tri-Modal Cross-attention Transformer (TMCT) that fuses the three image and metadata modalities at various feature levels of a transformer encoder. For multi-label classification, we introduce a multi-head attention (MHA) module to learn multi-label correlations, complemented by an optimisation that handles multi-label and imbalanced learning problems. SkinM2Former achieves a mean average accuracy of 77.27% and a mean diagnostic accuracy of 77.85% on the public Derm7pt dataset, outperforming state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods.