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An Adaptive Federated Machine Learning-Based Intelligent System for Skin Disease Detection: A Step toward an Intelligent Dermoscopy Device

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Hashmani, Manzoor Ahmed, Jameel, Syed Muslim, Rizvi, Syed Sajjad Hussain, Shukla, Saurabh·2021·Applied Sciences

Abstract

The prevalence of skin diseases has increased dramatically in recent decades, and they are now considered major chronic diseases globally. People suffer from a broad spectrum of skin diseases, whereas skin tumors are potentially aggressive and life-threatening. However, the severity of skin tumors can be managed (by treatment) if diagnosed early. Health practitioners usually apply manual or computer vision-based tools for skin tumor diagnosis, which may cause misinterpretation of the disease and lead to a longer analysis time. However, cutting-edge technologies such as deep learning using the federated machine learning approach have enabled health practitioners (dermatologists) in diagnosing the type and severity level of skin diseases. Therefore, this study proposes an adaptive federated machine learning-based skin disease model (using an adaptive ensemble convolutional neural network as the core classifier) in a step toward an intelligent dermoscopy device for dermatologists. The proposed federated machine learning-based architecture consists of intelligent local edges (dermoscopy) and a global point (server). The proposed architecture can diagnose the type of disease and continuously improve its accuracy. Experiments were carried out in a simulated environment using the International Skin Imaging Collaboration (ISIC) 2019 dataset (dermoscopy images) to test and validate the model’s classification accuracy and adaptability. In the future, this study may lead to the development of a federated machine learning-based (hardware) dermoscopy device to assist dermatologists in skin tumor diagnosis.

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  • Hashmani et al. [30] applied FL on dermoscopy images to classify nine different skin diseases.

    “Moreover, Hashmani et al. [30] applied FL on a series of dermoscopy images to classify nine different skin diseases.”
  • Similar data has been used in [30], which was released under ISIC 2019 and contains 25,331 dermoscopy images.

    “Similar data has been used in [30], which was released under a dataset challenge competition called ISIC 2019 and contains 25,331 dermoscopy images.”
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Authors
Hashmani, M. A., Jameel, S. M., Rizvi, S. S. H., & Shukla, S.
Affiliations
  • Universiti Teknologi Petronas (MY)
  • Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (PK)
  • National University of Ireland (IE)
Corresponding author
Jameel, Syed Muslim
Venue
Applied Sciences
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2021-02-28
Volume
11
Issue
5
Pages
2145
ISSN
2076-3417 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3135686383
Cited by
53
References
37
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 2
FWCI
2.91
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Applied Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (matching grant scheme) (Cost Centre: 015ME0-057)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › AI in cancer detection
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Keywords
federated learning, skin disease detection, skin tumor diagnosis, dermoscopy, edge computing

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