YOLOv8-Based Deep Learning Approach for Real-Time Skin Lesion Classification Using the HAM10000 Dataset
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Abstract
Skin cancer is a prevalent and potentially fatal disease that requires early detection for effective treatment. We trained and evaluated five YOLOv8 classification model variants (YOLOv8n-cls, YOLOv8s-cls, YOLOv8m-cls, YOLOv8l-cls, and YOLOv8x-cls) on the HAM10000 dataset, which contains 10,015 dermatoscopic images of common pigmented skin lesions. The models were trained for 30 epochs using data augmentation techniques to enhance generalization. Performance was assessed using metrics including accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, and inference time. The YOLOv8x-cls model achieved the highest accuracy of 86.2% and precision of 82.1%, while the YOLOv81-cIs model demonstrated the best balance with the highest F1-score of 77.0%. Compared to previous ensemble approaches, our single YOLOv8 models achieved superior performance with lower computational overhead. The YOLOv8n-cls variant showed the fastest inference time of 0.5 ms, making it suitable for real-time applications. Our results demonstrate the potential of YOLOv8-based models for accurate and efficient skin lesion classification, which could aid in early skin cancer detection and improve patient outcomes.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".