A Novel Perspective for Multi-modal Multi-label Skin Lesion Classification
<|reference_start|>A Novel Perspective for Multi-modal Multi-label Skin Lesion Classification: 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.<|reference_end|>
@article{zhang2024a,
    title={A Novel Perspective for Multi-modal Multi-label Skin Lesion
  Classification},
    author={Yuan Zhang, Yutong Xie, Hu Wang, Jodie C Avery, M Louise Hull and
  Gustavo Carneiro},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.12390},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2409.12390},
    primaryClass={cs.CV}
}