Facial skin disease prediction using StarGAN v2 and transfer learning

Abstract

Deep learning algorithms have become the most prominent methods for medical image analysis over the past years, leading to enhanced performances in various medical applications. In this paper, we focus on applying intelligent skin disease detection to face images, where the crucial challenge is the low availability of training data. To achieve high disease detection and classification success rates, we adapt the state-of-the-art StarGAN v2 network to augment images of faces and combine it with a transfer learning approach. The experimental results show that the classification accuracies of transfer learning models are in the range of 77.46–99.80% when trained on datasets that are extended with StarGAN v2 augmented data.