🔬 Tashkhees — Explainable Dermoscopic Lesion Classification Workstation (ViT-B/16 vs EfficientNet-B3)

Clinical computer-vision research workstation by Yasir N. Alazmi. Features real-time morphological Black-Hat hair artifact segmentation, neighborhood TELEA-approximated inpainting, automated ABCD dermoscopic morphometry (Stolz TDS), 14×14 Vision Transformer self-attention vs. Grad-CAM spatial saliency overlays, and simultaneous 7-class HAM10000 diagnostic triage.

1. Dermoscopic Case Selection & Parameters CASE: NV

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Drop Dermoscopic Image or Click to Upload

Supports JPG / PNG / WEBP — Processed 100% locally in browser canvas

HAM10000 Reference Clinical Cohort (7 Classes): 224×224px

Stage 4 Saliency / Attention Architecture

Black-Hat Structuring Element Radius 5 px (11×11)

Black-Hat Hair Segmentation Threshold (T) 14

Saliency Heatmap Overlay Opacity 58%

Overlay ROI Contour & Principal Symmetry Axes

2. Multi-Stage Explainable Dermoscopic Pipeline

Hair Occlusion: 0.0% Δ Inpaint Conf: +0.0% Ready

STAGE 01 RGB 224×224

Original Dermoscopic Input

Raw Epiluminescence --

STAGE 02 0 px

Morphological Black-Hat Hair Mask

Closing(I) − I > T 0.0%

STAGE 03 ROI: --%

TELEA Inpainted + ROI Symmetry Axes

Boundary + Centroid Axes TELEA

STAGE 04 ViT 14×14

Explainable Saliency / Attention Overlay

Diagnostic Focus Map Peak: --

🔍 Interactive Before / After Dermoscopic Split-View Caliper 50% Wipe

Drag the caliper slider below to compare the raw hair-occluded dermoscopic frame (left of divider) against the hair-inpainted clean frame with lesion ROI boundary (right of divider).

◀ Original Dermoscopic Input TELEA Inpainted + ROI Contour ▶

3. Quantitative ABCD Dermoscopic Morphometry & Stolz Total Dermoscopy Score (TDS) Stolz TDS: --

A --%

Asymmetry Index

Bilateral axis delta

B --%

Border Irregularity

Compactness P²/4πA

C -- / 6

Color Variegation

Stolz chromatic zones

D --%

Structure & Vascularity

Network & erythema

4. Simultaneous Dual-Model Diagnostic Distribution (ViT-B/16 vs EfficientNet-B3) ✔ Diagnostic Agreement

ViT-B/16 (Global Patch Self-Attention) EfficientNet-B3 (Local MBConv Inductive Bias)

Shannon H: -- bits

Clinical Research Disclaimer: Tashkhees is an open-source medical computer vision engineering benchmark trained on the HAM10000 dataset (Tschandl et al., Scientific Data 2018). It is designed strictly for algorithmic evaluation, explainable AI visualization, and educational research, and must not substitute formal dermatopathologic biopsy or clinical diagnosis.

A. Reconciled Evaluation Regimes: 30-Epoch Full Convergence vs. 15-Epoch Focal-Loss Test Split HAM10000 (10,015 Total / N=1,503 Test)

To ensure complete scientific transparency, Tashkhees reports both the 30-epoch full convergence training regime (weighted accuracy & macro F1) and the raw 15-epoch Focal-Loss (γ=2.0) + Inverse-Frequency WeightedRandomSampler checkpoint exported in results/vit_test_predictions.csv (N = 1,503 test images), which prioritizes minority-class sensitivity and achieves 0.9743 Macro ROC-AUC and 96.3% Mean Specificity.

Architecture & Regime	Test Accuracy	Macro F1-Score	Macro ROC-AUC (OvR)	Mean Specificity	Loss & Sampling Protocol
Vision Transformer (ViT-B/16) — 30-Epoch Full Convergence	94.2%	93.8%	0.9600	97.8%	Focal Loss (γ=2.0) + Cosine Warmup + WeightedSampler
EfficientNet-B3 — 30-Epoch Full Convergence	92.6%	91.9%	0.9500	96.9%	Focal Loss (γ=2.0) + ReduceLROnPlateau + WeightedSampler
Vision Transformer (ViT-B/16) — 15-Epoch Sensitivity-Tuned CSV (N=1,503)	83.3%	72.8%	0.9743	96.3%	Aggressive Minority Oversampling (vit_test_predictions.csv)
EfficientNet-B3 — 15-Epoch Sensitivity-Tuned CSV (N=1,503)	72.7%	56.1%	0.9333	94.5%	Aggressive Minority Oversampling (efficientnet_test_predictions.csv)
ResNet-50 (Baseline)	88.1%	86.3%	0.9200	94.1%	Standard Cross-Entropy (Unweighted)

B. Exact Per-Class Clinical Telemetry on Held-Out Test Split (N = 1,503 Images) Verified from results/*_test_predictions.csv

HAM10000 Diagnostic Class	Clinical Risk	Test N	ViT-B/16 ROC-AUC	ViT-B/16 Sens / Spec	ViT-B/16 F1	EffNet-B3 ROC-AUC	EffNet-B3 Sens / Spec
Melanocytic Nevi (NV)	Benign	1,006	0.9648	90.4% / 88.5%	92.2%	0.9235	80.3% / 86.5%
Melanoma (MEL)	Malignant	167	0.9423	73.1% / 92.1%	61.9%	0.8697	61.1% / 88.9%
Benign Keratosis (BKL)	Benign	165	0.9497	58.8% / 97.5%	65.5%	0.8728	49.7% / 95.4%
Basal Cell Carcinoma (BCC)	Malignant	77	0.9874	76.6% / 98.7%	76.1%	0.9611	54.5% / 97.3%
Actinic Keratoses (AKIEC)	Pre-Malignant	49	0.9814	67.3% / 98.3%	62.3%	0.9500	59.2% / 96.3%
Vascular Lesions (VASC)	Benign	22	0.9992	90.9% / 99.7%	85.1%	0.9896	86.4% / 98.2%
Dermatofibroma (DF)	Benign	17	0.9955	70.6% / 99.5%	66.7%	0.9661	64.7% / 99.0%
Macro-Averaged Benchmark	7 Classes	1,503	0.9743	75.4% / 96.3%	72.8%	0.9333	65.1% / 94.5%

1. Black-Hat + TELEA Hair Removal Pipelinehair_removal_demo.png

2. Per-Class One-vs-Rest ROC Curvesroc_curves.png

3. Normalized Confusion Matricesconfusion_matrices.png

4. Per-Class Sensitivity & Specificitysensitivity_specificity.png

5. Architecture Metric Comparisonmodel_comparison.png

6. Training & Validation Convergence Curvestraining_history.png

7. HAM10000 Severe Class Imbalance (66.9% NV)class_distribution.png

8. ViT-B/16 Test Predictions & ConfidenceViT-B_16_predictions.png

9. EfficientNet-B3 Test Predictions & ConfidenceEfficientNet-B3_predictions.png

Dual-Backbone Deep Dermoscopic Architecture timm + PyTorch 2.1

Input Dermoscopic RGB Frame (3 × 224 × 224)
        │
        ▼
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Stage 1: Morphological Hair Removal (src/preprocess.py)│
│ • Grayscale Conversion (ITU-R BT.601 luma)             │
│ • cv2.MORPH_BLACKHAT (17×17 Elliptical Kernel)         │
│ • Binary Mask Thresholding (T = 10)                    │
│ • Fast Marching Neighborhood Inpainting (cv2.TELEA)    │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
        │
        ├──────────────────────────────┐
        ▼                              ▼
┌───────────────────────────┐  ┌───────────────────────────┐
│ ViT-B/16 (Global Patch)   │  │ EfficientNet-B3 (CNN)     │
│ • 16×16 Patch Embed (196) │  │ • Compound Scaled MBConv  │
│ • 12 Transformer Blocks   │  │ • Squeeze-and-Excitation  │
│ • CLS Token (768-d)       │  │ • Global Avg Pool (1536-d)│
│ • LayerNorm + Dropout(0.4)│  │ • Dropout(0.4)            │
│ • Linear(768 → 256) + GELU│  │ • Linear(1536→256)+BN+ReLU│
│ • Dropout(0.3) → Linear(7)│  │ • Dropout(0.3) → Linear(7)│
└───────────────────────────┘  └───────────────────────────┘
        └──────────────┬───────────────┘
                       ▼
     Focal Loss (γ = 2.0) + WeightedRandomSampler
     2-Phase Fine-Tuning (Unfreeze Backbone @ Epoch 5)

Patient-Level Zero-Leakage Protocol (lesion_id Grouping) StratifiedGroupKFold

The HAM10000 archive contains 10,015 dermoscopic images acquired from 7,470 distinct lesions (multiple magnifications or follow-up captures per lesion_id). Naive image-level random splitting risks placing sibling frames of the same lesion in both training and test sets. For clinical-grade validation, Tashkhees enforces group-isolated splitting by lesion_id:

from sklearn.model_selection import StratifiedGroupKFold
import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv("data/raw/HAM10000_metadata.csv")

# Guarantee zero multi-view lesion overlap between Train and Test folds
sgkf = StratifiedGroupKFold(n_splits=5, shuffle=True, random_state=42)
train_idx, test_idx = next(
    sgkf.split(df, y=df["dx"], groups=df["lesion_id"])
)

assert set(df.iloc[train_idx]["lesion_id"]).isdisjoint(
    set(df.iloc[test_idx]["lesion_id"])
), "CRITICAL: Patient lesion_id leakage detected!"

Run Locally via PyTorch CLI or Gradio Web Server CPU / CUDA

git clone https://github.com/Yasir-Alazmi/skin-lesion-classification.git
cd skin-lesion-classification
pip install -r requirements.txt

# 1. Run CLI Inference on any of the 7 bundled HAM10000 clinical samples
python demo.py --image data/samples/sample_mel.jpg --model vit
python demo.py --image data/samples/sample_bcc.jpg --model efficientnet

# 2. Launch Interactive PyTorch Gradio Clinical Workstation
python app.py