Iris nevus diagnosis: convolutional neural network and deep belief network

Authors

OYEBADE OYEDOTUN
ADNAN KHASHMAN

DOI

10.3906/elk-1507-190

Abstract

This work presents the diagnosis of iris nevus using a convolutional neural network (CNN) and deep belief network (DBN). Iris nevus is a pigmented growth (tumor) found in the front of the eye or around the pupil. It is seen that racial and environmental factors affect the iris color (e.g., blue, hazel, brown) of patients; hence, pigmented growths may be masked in the eye background or iris. In this work, some image processing techniques are applied to images to reinforce areas of interests in them, after which the considered classifiers are trained. We describe the automated diagnosis of iris nevus using neural network-based systems for the classification of eye images as ''nevus affected'' and ''unaffected''. Recognition rates of 93.35% and 93.67% were achieved for the CNN and DBN, respectively. Hence, the systems described in this work can be used satisfactorily for diagnosis or to reinforce the confidence in manual-visual diagnosis by medical experts.

Keywords

Iris nevus, diagnosis, convolutional neural networks, deep belief networks

First Page

1106

Last Page

1115

Recommended Citation

OYEDOTUN, OYEBADE and KHASHMAN, ADNAN (2017) "Iris nevus diagnosis: convolutional neural network and deep belief network," Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences: Vol. 25: No. 2, Article 35. https://doi.org/10.3906/elk-1507-190
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/elektrik/vol25/iss2/35