# Self-Supervised Multi-Modality Learning for Multi-Label Skin Lesion Classification

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18583 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.18583/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 28 of its 56 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 28 Oct 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 28 of 28)

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## Abstract (arXiv)

The clinical diagnosis of skin lesion involves the analysis of dermoscopic and clinical modalities. Dermoscopic images provide a detailed view of the surface structures whereas clinical images offer a complementary macroscopic information. The visual diagnosis of melanoma is also based on seven-point checklist which involves identifying different visual attributes. Recently, supervised learning approaches such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great performances using both dermoscopic and clinical modalities (Multi-modality). The seven different visual attributes in the checklist are also used to further improve the the diagnosis. The performances of these approaches, however, are still reliant on the availability of large-scaled labeled data. The acquisition of annotated dataset is an expensive and time-consuming task, more so with annotating multi-attributes. To overcome this limitation, we propose a self-supervised learning (SSL) algorithm for multi-modality skin lesion classification. Our algorithm enables the multi-modality learning by maximizing the similarities between paired dermoscopic and clinical images from different views. In addition, we generate surrogate pseudo-multi-labels that represent seven attributes via clustering analysis. We also propose a label-relation-aware module to refine each pseudo-label embedding and capture the interrelationships between pseudo-multi-labels. We validated the effectiveness of our algorithm using well-benchmarked seven-point skin lesion dataset. Our results show that our algorithm achieved better performances than other state-of-the-art SSL counterparts.