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D’OraCa: deep learning-based classification of oral lesions with mouth landmark guidance for early detection of oral cancer

  • Jian Han Lim
  • , Chun Shui Tan
  • , Chee Seng Chan
  • , Roshan Alex Welikala
  • , Paolo Remagnino
  • , Senthilmani Rajendran
  • , Thomas George Kallarakkal
  • , Rosnah Binti Zain
  • , Ruwan Duminda Jayasinghe
  • , Jyotsna Rimal
  • , Alexander Ross Kerr
  • , Rahmi Amtha
  • , Karthikeya Patil
  • , Wanninayake Mudiyanselage Tilakaratne
  • , John Gibson
  • , Sok Ching Cheong
  • , Sarah Ann Barman
  • University of Malaya
  • Cancer Research Malaysia
  • MAHSA University
  • University of Peradeniya
  • B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences
  • New York University
  • Trisakti University
  • JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research
  • University of Aberdeen

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Abstract

Oral cancer is a major health issue among low- and middle-income countries due to the late diagnosis. Automated algorithms and tools have the potential to identify oral lesions for early detection of oral cancer. In this paper, we aim to develop a novel deep learning framework named D’OraCa to classify oral lesions using photographic images. We are the first to develop a mouth landmark detection model for the oral images and incorporate it into the oral lesion classification model as a guidance to improve the classification accuracy. We evaluate the performance of five different deep convolutional neural networks and MobileNetV2 was chosen as the feature extractor for our proposed mouth landmark detection model. Quantitative and qualitative results demonstrate the effectiveness of the mouth landmark detection model in guiding the classification model to classify the oral lesions into four different referral decision classes. We train our proposed mouth landmark model on a combination of five datasets, containing 221,565 images. Then, we train and evaluate our proposed classification model with mouth landmark guidance using 2,455 oral images. The results are consistent with clinicians and the
score of the classification model is improved to 61.68%.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Understanding and Analysis
Subtitle of host publication25th Annual Conference, MIUA 2021, Oxford, United Kingdom, July 12–14, 2021, proceedings
EditorsBartłomiej W. Papież, Mohammad Yaqub, Jianbo Jiao, Ana I. L. Namburete, J. Alison Noble
Place of PublicationCham, Switzerland
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages408–422
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9783030804329
ISBN (Print)9783030804312
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 Jul 2021
Event25th UK Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA2021) - Oxford, U.K. (held online)
Duration: 12 Jul 2021 → 14 Jul 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume12722
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference25th UK Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA2021)
Period12/07/21 → 14/07/21

Bibliographical note

Organising Body: MIUA

Keywords

  • Cancer studies

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