Melanoma detection through AI models

This project explores the use of AI models to detect skin cancer from images of skin lesions, achieving 80-90% accuracy in predicting malignancy and revealing key physical attributes that could aid early detection.

Skin cancer is one of the most prominent forms of cancer, and early detection can significantly improve the recovery process for those affected. Through this project, I aimed to understand the ability to detect cancer from images of skin lesions using artificial intelligence (AI) models. I attempted to build software which would allow users to predict the possibility of cancerous lesions by processing images through these models. The approach involved the use of different AI algorithms which were trained on a dataset of thousands of individual images, and identifying which models yielded the best results. Just from graphing the data, it was shown that the malignant images were darker on average, with lower average color values for each pixel. The test accuracy of most models ranged between 80 - 90%, proving that the AI models were able to correctly predict malignant v/s non-malignant 80 - 90% of the time. Through my research, I discovered that AI models have the ability to correctly predict melanoma by processing images using a variety of algorithms through which the data is trained. Additionally, I learned of the numerous physical attributes of an image which could help people predict the malignancy of skin lesions before using an AI model for prediction.

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