Internship at Clemson University

This internship took place during the summer of 2022 at the ICAR labs at Clemson University.

• My advisor was Prof. Venkat Krovi, Michelin Endowed Chair of Vehicle Automation in the Departments of Automotive Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University.

​In this internship, we researched, designed, and developed a technique to automatically analyze images of skin lesions to distinguish between malignant lesions (melanoma - skin cancer) and benign lesions.

• Early detection of malignant skin lesions can save lives; around 2 people die from skin cancer every hour in the US.

We used a convolutional neural network to achieve our goal. We employed a pre-trained deep neural network, RESNET-18, and fine-tuned using MatLab's Deep Network Designer for malignancy diagnosis.

Results from our research indicate that it is a promising solution that could be applied for early warning of skin cancer in a non-invasive manner.