ADVANCED SKIN CANCER DETECTION USING CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS AND TRANSFER LEARNING

This study investigates the effectiveness of MobileNetV2 transfer learning method and a deep learning based Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model in the categorization of malignant and benign skin lesions in skin cancer diagnosis. Since skin cancer is a disease that can be cured with early detection but can be fatal if delayed, accurate diagnosis is of great importance. The model was trained with MobileNetV2 architecture and performed the classification task with high accuracy on images of skin lesions. Metrics such as accuracy, recall, precision and F1 score obtained during the training and validation processes support the high performance of the model. The accuracy of the model was 92.97%, Recall 92.71%, Precision 94.70% and F1 score 93.47%. The results show that the CNN-based MobileNetV2 model is a reliable and effective tool for skin cancer diagnosis, but small fluctuations in the validation phase require further data and hyperparameter optimization to further improve the generalization ability of the model. This study demonstrates that CNN-based models enhanced with MobileNetV2 transfer learning offer a powerful solution to medical image classification problems and have the potential to contribute to the development of early detection systems in the healthcare field.