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A Methodological Approach to the Classification of Dermoscopy Images

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A methodological approach to the classification of pigmented skin lesions in dermoscopy images is presented and the issue of class imbalance is addressed using various sampling strategies and the classifier generalization error is estimated using Monte Carlo cross validation.
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This article is published in Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics.The article was published on 2007-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 583 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Feature selection & Support vector machine.

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A Review on Ensembles for the Class Imbalance Problem: Bagging-, Boosting-, and Hybrid-Based Approaches

TL;DR: A taxonomy for ensemble-based methods to address the class imbalance where each proposal can be categorized depending on the inner ensemble methodology in which it is based is proposed and a thorough empirical comparison is developed by the consideration of the most significant published approaches to show whether any of them makes a difference.
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Automated Melanoma Recognition in Dermoscopy Images via Very Deep Residual Networks

TL;DR: This study corroborates that very deep CNNs with effective training mechanisms can be employed to solve complicated medical image analysis tasks, even with limited training data.
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PH 2 - A dermoscopic image database for research and benchmarking

TL;DR: The PH2 database includes the manual segmentation, the clinical diagnosis, and the identification of several dermoscopic structures, performed by expert dermatologists, in a set of 200 dermosCopic images.
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Automatic Skin Lesion Segmentation Using Deep Fully Convolutional Networks With Jaccard Distance

TL;DR: A fully automatic method for skin lesion segmentation by leveraging 19-layer deep convolutional neural networks that is trained end-to-end and does not rely on prior knowledge of the data to ensure effective and efficient learning with limited training data is presented.
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Deep learning ensembles for melanoma recognition in dermoscopy images

TL;DR: A system that combines recent developments in deep learning with established machine learning approaches, creating ensembles of methods that are capable of segmenting skin lesions, as well as analyzing the detected area and surrounding tissue for melanoma detection is proposed.
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Statistical learning theory

TL;DR: Presenting a method for determining the necessary and sufficient conditions for consistency of learning process, the author covers function estimates from small data pools, applying these estimations to real-life problems, and much more.
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C4.5: Programs for Machine Learning

TL;DR: A complete guide to the C4.5 system as implemented in C for the UNIX environment, which starts from simple core learning methods and shows how they can be elaborated and extended to deal with typical problems such as missing data and over hitting.
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Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques

TL;DR: This highly anticipated third edition of the most acclaimed work on data mining and machine learning will teach you everything you need to know about preparing inputs, interpreting outputs, evaluating results, and the algorithmic methods at the heart of successful data mining.
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SMOTE: synthetic minority over-sampling technique

TL;DR: In this article, a method of over-sampling the minority class involves creating synthetic minority class examples, which is evaluated using the area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve (AUC) and the ROC convex hull strategy.
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A Tutorial on Support Vector Machines for Pattern Recognition

TL;DR: There are several arguments which support the observed high accuracy of SVMs, which are reviewed and numerous examples and proofs of most of the key theorems are given.
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