Deep learning in melanoma screening
Afonso Menegola · 2018
I would like to thank my supervisor, Eduardo Valle, who is an outlier.He has conĄdence of achieving greatness, and he is not afraid of get his hands dirty on experiments to do it.Because of this, we made partnership in the experiments that led our group to the top score on the melanoma classiĄcation competition.I Ąnd it really valuable someone who not only open up our eyes for the paths of science, but who also proactively follow this path together.I would also like to thank him for strongly emphasizing us to NOT contaminate train and test sets.Lin Tzy Li, my co-supervisor, is an example to follow.She has all the professionalism traits I want to have when I grow up.Always writing down what is happening in our group meetings (which made me bought my own notebook to start writing my own notes), proactivly participating in text reviews, suggestions, wanting the world to be changed and seeing our group as a way to do it.Michel Fornaciali played one of the most important roles on this work: the facilitator.As I was running the experiments, there he was in the battleŠs front line, documenting the articles, performing reviews, helping with random problems that ALWAYS appears.And all of this with a lot of fun, trading memes on our SlackŠs private chat, laughing about our situation.It was really a pleasure to work with you, Michel.From micro to macro, I would like to thank all Titans (research group led be Eduardo) and RECOD (lab from which I belong, offering all computational resources) team members, specially Sandra Avila, who is one of the the best professors UNICAMP could possibly have: creative, professional, student oriented, a true researcher.Never lose your touch, Sandra.I also thank Ramon Pires, for all the help in the Ąrst semester, explaining and sharing his code that I used to run the experiments on the conference paper.It is really difficult for me to decide who from my family I would thank Ąrst.On one hand, I have my parents, João Menegola Sobrinho e Laurinda Menegola, who I donŠt even have words to describe, they are the people I love the most, who made me who I am, who always invested on me, believed on me.They are my safe haven.And their food, oh my god, their food.If you want to feel their love, you need to eat their food, itŠs like a direct streamline from your stomach to your heart.On the other hand, I have my partner Priscila Bassani, my point of