Title:
Few-shot learning for dermatological disease diagnosis

dc.contributor.advisor Parikh, Devi
dc.contributor.author Prabhu, Viraj Uday
dc.contributor.committeeMember Batra, Dhruv
dc.contributor.committeeMember Lee, Stefan
dc.contributor.department Computer Science
dc.date.accessioned 2019-05-29T14:04:32Z
dc.date.available 2019-05-29T14:04:32Z
dc.date.created 2019-05
dc.date.issued 2019-04-30
dc.date.submitted May 2019
dc.date.updated 2019-05-29T14:04:32Z
dc.description.abstract In this thesis, we consider the problem of clinical image classification for the purpose of aiding doctors in dermatological disease diagnosis. Diagnosis of dermatological disease conditions from images poses two major challenges for standard off-the-shelf techniques: First, the distribution of real-world dermatological datasets is typically long-tailed. Second, intra-class variability is large. To address the first issue, we formulate the problem as low-shot learning, where once deployed, a base classifier can rapidly generalize to diagnose novel conditions given very few labeled examples. To model intra-class variability effectively, we propose Prototypical Clustering Networks (PCN), an extension to Prototypical Networks that learns a mixture of "prototypes" for each class. Prototypes are initialized for each class via clustering and refined via an online update scheme. Classification is performed by measuring similarity to a weighted combination of prototypes within a class, where the weights are the inferred cluster responsibilities. We demonstrate the strengths of our approach in effective diagnosis on a realistic dataset of dermatological conditions.
dc.description.degree M.S.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/61296
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject Image classification
dc.subject Low shot learning
dc.subject Automated diagnosis
dc.title Few-shot learning for dermatological disease diagnosis
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Thesis
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local.contributor.advisor Parikh, Devi
local.contributor.corporatename College of Computing
local.contributor.corporatename School of Computer Science
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thesis.degree.level Masters
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