Bayesian‐Edge system for classification and segmentation of skin lesions in Internet of Medical Things

• Published in: Skin research and technology 2024-08, Vol.30 (8), p.e13878-n/a
• Main Authors: Naseem, Shahid, Anwar, Muhammad, Faheem, Muhammad, Fayyaz, Muhammad, Malik, Muhammad Sheraz Arshad
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Algorithms; Annotations; auto‐immune pathogenic traits; Bayes Theorem; Bayesian analysis; Bayesian inference; Decision making; Deep Learning; Dermoscopy - methods; Edge computing; edge intelligence; Humans; Image contrast; Image processing; Image segmentation; Intelligence; Internet of medical things; Internet of Things; Lesions; malignance; Malignancy; Mathematical models; Medical imaging; Original; Performance evaluation; Psoriasis; Segmentation; Skin - diagnostic imaging; Skin - pathology; Skin diseases; Skin Diseases - diagnostic imaging; Skin Diseases - pathology; Skin lesions; Skin Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Skin Neoplasms - pathology; Statistical inference; Synthetic data; Vibrations
• ISSN: 0909-752X; 1600-0846; 1600-0846
• DOI: 10.1111/srt.13878

Background Skin diseases are severe diseases. Identification of these severe diseases depends upon the ion of atypical skin regions. The segmentation of these skin diseases is essential to rheumatologists in risk impost and for valuable and vital decision‐making. Skin lesion segmentation from images is a crucial step toward achieving this goal—timely exposure of malignancy in psoriasis expressively intensifies the persistence ratio. Defies occur when people presume skin diseases they have without accurately and precisely incepted. However, analyzing malignancy at runtime is a big challenge due to the truncated distinction of the visual similarity between malignance and non‐malignance lesions. However, images' different shapes, contrast, and vibrations make skin lesion segmentation challenging. Recently, various researchers have explored the applicability of deep learning models to skin lesion segmentation. Materials and methods This paper introduces a skin lesions segmentation model that integrates two intelligent methodologies: Bayesian inference and edge intelligence. In the segmentation model, we deal with edge intelligence to utilize the texture features for the segmentation of skin lesions. In contrast, Bayesian inference enhances skin lesion segmentation's accuracy and efficiency. Results We analyze our work along several dimensions, including input data (datasets, preprocessing, and synthetic data generation), model design (architecture, modules), and evaluation aspects (data annotation requirements and segmentation performance). We discuss these dimensions from seminal works and a systematic viewpoint and examine how these dimensions have influenced current trends. Conclusion We summarize our work with previously used techniques in a comprehensive table to facilitate comparisons. Our experimental results show that Bayesian‐Edge networks can boost the diagnostic performance of skin lesions by up to 87.80% without incurring additional parameters of heavy computation.