CHAPTER 05

CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK

5.1 OVERVIEW

This chapter concludes the thesis and summarizes the findings of the presented work. It will first
give a summary of what has been done in this thesis. After that, and outlook will be given, in which
further developments or improvements are possible is in the present work.

5.2 CONCLUSIONS

In this work, we have applied supervised machine learning classification model with changing the
parameter and testing it on skin cancer images dataset using machine learning framework Sckit
learn (Simple and efficient tools for predictive data analysis). With the help of Machine learning
supervised models, we have extracted the features of an image using HOG feature descriptor and
have classified the image into benign and malignant. It is observed that the classification accuracy
mainly depends on how HOG extract features.

Machine learning represents powerful, efficient, highly accurate tool that reduces pathologist and
Farmers workload. It is expected to use machine learning approaches in various medical situations
such as image classification, object detection, and segmentation etc. We must have basic
knowledge of machine learning, anticipate the problems that will occur when it is introduced, and
prepare to address these various problems.

5.3 FUTURE WORK

Machine learning methods have succeeded in state-of-the-art achievement over different medical
applications like medical image analysis, monitoring disease progression in human being.
However, there are some gaps that need to be addressed in skin cancer medical image analysis.
Building big dataset of skin screening images and making it available to researchers so that there
will be different available models trained on skin cancer images. Basically, we have used a
Machine learning models with the variation in parameter to classify the image. Though the
efficiency is pretty good, still there is a room for improvement.

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we only classify type of disease into benign and malignant. In the future, we will monitor
progression of these diseases. Hence, another future direction from this study will be extending
the model implementation on conventional smartphone processor to do fast and cheap on-device
inference

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