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Raman spectroscopy (RS) is a promising tool for the classification of tumor tissues as it allows us to obtain the biochemical maps of the tissues under analysis and to observe their evolution in terms of biomolecules, proteins, lipid structures, DNA, vitamins, and so on. However, its potential could be further improved by providing a classification system which would be able to recognize the sample tumor category by taking as input the raw Raman spectroscopy signal; this could provide more reliable responses in shorter time scales and could reduce or eliminate false-positive or -negative diagnoses. Deep Learning techniques have become ubiquitous in recent years, with models able to perform classification with high accuracy in most diverse fields of research, e.g., natural language processing, computer vision, medical imaging. However, deep models often rely on huge labeled datasets to produce reasonable accuracy, otherwise occurring in overfitting issues when the training data is insufficient. In this paper, we propose a chondrogenic tumor CLAssification through wavelet transform of RAman spectra (CLARA), which is able to classify with high accuracy Raman spectra obtained from bone tissues. CLARA recognizes and grades the tumors in the evaluated dataset with 97% accuracy by exploiting a classification pipeline consisting of the division of the original task in two binary classification steps, where the first is performed on the original RS signals while the latter is accomplished through the use of a hybrid temporal-frequency 2D transform.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22197492","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,10]],"date-time":"2022-10-10T05:12:21Z","timestamp":1665378741000},"page":"7492","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Deep Learning for Chondrogenic Tumor Classification through Wavelet Transform of Raman Spectra"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4873-1369","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pietro","family":"Manganelli Conforti","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"DIAG Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Ariosto 25, 00185 Roma, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4233-1943","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mario","family":"D\u2019Acunto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CNR-IBF, Istituto di Biofisica, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1886-3491","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Paolo","family":"Russo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"DIAG Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Ariosto 25, 00185 Roma, Italy"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"533","DOI":"10.18203\/2320-6012.ijrms20180293","article-title":"Incidence of bone tumors and tumor like lesions at a tertiary centre\u2014A study of 64 cases","volume":"6","author":"Verma","year":"2018","journal-title":"Int. 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