arXiv Machine Learning By Soumyya Kanti Datta, Seyed Mohammad Abuzar Hashemi, Sargur N. Srihari, Mingchen Gao

Soft-Attention Improves Skin Cancer Classification Performance

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arXiv:2105. 03358v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In clinical applications, neural networks must focus on and highlight the most important parts of an input image.

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