using Deep Lens for project on individuals self-monitoring of a skin condition

-- note the data consists of primary images and masks to enable scoring of the segmentation

In addition to Deep Lens, we used MQTT to enable our App to have a stream of information coming from the Deep Lens device. Our lambda function is triggered to return a confidence estimate for the severity of the psoriasis, based on the segmentation and the percent of the image that is potentially seen as at risk. We used MXNet and Tensorflow for model training, along with hyperparamter refinement with Sagemaker. The model was evaluated by training both on-device (see the YouTube video) and by Sagemaker with our images in a S3 bucket.

In addition to AWS console and CLI resources, the project builds on node.js and Python lambda functions, along with Python notebooks using Juypter and AWS resources for learning. We used a combination of two laptops, one desktop computer and AWS resources, along with Deep Lens for the building and testing. Others may also find that mounting the Deep Lens on a tripod (as can be seen in the YouTube video) is helpful for training. We also configured one computer display for training/testing of images by setting up a continuous slideshow of our primary data. This supported our testing of the MQTT stream.

1. Have setup and installed DeepLens as specified by AWS documentation, should have account access and registration of the device, along with at least an initial model installed to verify that the Deep Lens device is working correctly
2. MQTT and IoT needs to be set up with appropriate policy permissions and links to the ARN for Deep Lens
3. Lambda function needs to be modified for each Deep Lens registration and for the MQTT/IoT, the code in the repository can be modified for the appropriate permissions
4. Testing of the output is from a video stream of pictures and the MQTT streaming results; to accomplish that please set up the console monitor (e.g. in our case the http is: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/im-examples/console/index.html?region=us-east-1&host=a3u3tjptc1o2rk.iot.us-east-1.amazonaws.com&id-pool=us-east-1:94124864-7a94-4976-8ec8-02443779e9f8)
5. This same endpoint is used for our App (seen in the YouTube) and enables the streaming video analysis from the DeepLens to be seen on the App
6. Note that video as well as text is enabled in the MQTT
7. We plan to do more Machine Learning training, both MXNet and TensorFlow. The submission is based on the Caltech classifiction work (http://www.vision.caltech.edu/Image_Datasets/Caltech256/)
8. Note that the original data is from a dataset collected in France, two years back: https://github.com/EliseTellier/Medical-Image-Processing/tree/master/data/skinimg
9. We plan to further enlarge this dataset and to look at the use of machine-learning algorithms for dealing with noise (in our case especially changes in lighting, focus, and image sizes). For this later step we will be using ideas from this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06487

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/aws-deeplens-extensions-build-your-own-project/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/customize-and-display-aws-deeplens-project-output-on-your-laptop/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psoriasis_Area_and_Severity_Index https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169260717303875