Abstract

Convolutional Neural Networks have gained popularity in the recent years due to their performance regarding image analysis, both in classification and segmentation. Especially in the medical field, it is increasingly common to use automatic techniques to help specialists with the diagnosis.

In this thesis, the problem of skin lesion classification is studied. The study is based on the ISIC Challenges, given the collaboration with Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, and we help in the development of the database for the ISIC Challenge 2019.

One of the key points of the development is obtaining a model that manages to classify with accuracy a database provided. To do so, we study residual neural networks and an ensemble of them to further improve the results.

The purpose of this project, therefore is the study, analysis and evaluation of the variants and modifications of residual neural networks so that it adapts to our problem using an ensemble of them. In the process, the neural network will have to tackle the problem of class imbalance