Meta-Transfer Derm-Diagnosis: Exploring Few-Shot Learning and Transfer Learning for Skin Disease Classification in Long-Tail Distribution

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Main Authors: Özdemir, Zeynep, Keles, Hacer Yalim, Tanrıöver, Ömer Özgür
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author Özdemir, Zeynep
Keles, Hacer Yalim
Tanrıöver, Ömer Özgür
author_facet Özdemir, Zeynep
Keles, Hacer Yalim
Tanrıöver, Ömer Özgür
contents Building accurate models for rare skin diseases remains challenging due to the lack of sufficient labeled data and the inherently long-tailed distribution of available samples. These issues are further complicated by inconsistencies in how datasets are collected and their varying objectives. To address these challenges, we compare three learning strategies: episodic learning, supervised transfer learning, and contrastive self-supervised pretraining, within a few-shot learning framework. We evaluate five training setups on three benchmark datasets: ISIC2018, Derm7pt, and SD-198. Our findings show that traditional transfer learning approaches, particularly those based on MobileNetV2 and Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures, consistently outperform episodic and self-supervised methods as the number of training examples increases. When combined with batch-level data augmentation techniques such as MixUp, CutMix, and ResizeMix, these models achieve state-of-the-art performance on the SD-198 and Derm7pt datasets, and deliver highly competitive results on ISIC2018. All the source codes related to this work will be made publicly available soon at the provided URL.
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spellingShingle Meta-Transfer Derm-Diagnosis: Exploring Few-Shot Learning and Transfer Learning for Skin Disease Classification in Long-Tail Distribution
Özdemir, Zeynep
Keles, Hacer Yalim
Tanrıöver, Ömer Özgür
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Building accurate models for rare skin diseases remains challenging due to the lack of sufficient labeled data and the inherently long-tailed distribution of available samples. These issues are further complicated by inconsistencies in how datasets are collected and their varying objectives. To address these challenges, we compare three learning strategies: episodic learning, supervised transfer learning, and contrastive self-supervised pretraining, within a few-shot learning framework. We evaluate five training setups on three benchmark datasets: ISIC2018, Derm7pt, and SD-198. Our findings show that traditional transfer learning approaches, particularly those based on MobileNetV2 and Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures, consistently outperform episodic and self-supervised methods as the number of training examples increases. When combined with batch-level data augmentation techniques such as MixUp, CutMix, and ResizeMix, these models achieve state-of-the-art performance on the SD-198 and Derm7pt datasets, and deliver highly competitive results on ISIC2018. All the source codes related to this work will be made publicly available soon at the provided URL.
title Meta-Transfer Derm-Diagnosis: Exploring Few-Shot Learning and Transfer Learning for Skin Disease Classification in Long-Tail Distribution
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16814