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ArticleScientific reports2025

A fuzzy rank-based deep ensemble methodology for multi-class skin cancer classification.

Arindam Halder, Anogh Dalal, Sanghita Gharami, Marcin Wozniak, Muhammad Fazal Ijaz, Pawan Kumar Singh

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Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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Arindam HalderDepartment of Information Technology, Jadavpur University, Jadavpur University Salt Lake Campus, Plot No. 8, Salt Lake Bypass, LB Block, Sector III, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, 700106, West Bengal, India.
Anogh DalalDepartment of Information Technology, Jadavpur University, Jadavpur University Salt Lake Campus, Plot No. 8, Salt Lake Bypass, LB Block, Sector III, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, 700106, West Bengal, India.
Sanghita GharamiDepartment of Information Technology, Jadavpur University, Jadavpur University Salt Lake Campus, Plot No. 8, Salt Lake Bypass, LB Block, Sector III, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, 700106, West Bengal, India.
Marcin WozniakFaculty of Applied Mathematics, Silesian University of Technology, Kaszubska 23, Gliwice, 44100, Poland. marcin.wozniak@polsl.pl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9073-5347
Muhammad Fazal IjazSchool of IT and Engineering, Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, 3000, Australia. mfazal@mit.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5206-272X
Pawan Kumar SinghDepartment of Information Technology, Jadavpur University, Jadavpur University Salt Lake Campus, Plot No. 8, Salt Lake Bypass, LB Block, Sector III, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, 700106, West Bengal, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9598-7981

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Silesian University of Technology 09/010/RGJ24/0031
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Skin cancer is widespread and can be potentially fatal. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), it has been identified as a leading cause of mortality. It is essential to detect skin cancer early so that effective treatment can be provided at an initial stage. In this study, the widely-used HAM10000 dataset, containing high-resolution images of various skin lesions, is employed to train and evaluate. Our methodology for the HAM10000 dataset involves balancing the imbalanced dataset by augmenting images followed by splitting the dataset into train, test and validation set, preprocessing the images, training the individual models Xception, InceptionResNetV2 and MobileNetV2, and then combining their outputs using fuzzy logic to generate a final prediction. We examined the performance of the ensemble using standard metrics like classification accuracy, confusion matrix, etc. and achieved an impressive accuracy of 95.14% and the result demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach in accurately identifying skin cancer lesions. To further assess the efficiency of the model, additional tests have been performed on the DermaMNIST dataset from the MedMNISTv2 collection. The model performs well on the dataset and transcends the benchmark accuracy of 76.8%, achieving 78.25%. Thus the model is efficient for skin cancer classification, showcasing its potential for clinical applications.

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Fuzzy LogicSkin NeoplasmsAlgorithmsDatabases, FactualHumansDeep learningDermaMNISTFuzzy ensembleHAM10000InceptionResNetV2MobileNetV2Skin Cancer image classificationXception

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