D2LFS2Net: Multi‐class skin lesion diagnosis using deep learning and variance‐controlled Marine Predator optimisation: An application for precision medicine

Abstract In computer vision applications like surveillance and remote sensing, to mention a few, deep learning has had considerable success. Medical imaging still faces a number of difficulties, including intra‐class similarity, a scarcity of training data, and poor contrast skin lesions, notably in...

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Main Authors: Veena Dillshad, Muhammad Attique Khan, Muhammad Nazir, Oumaima Saidani, Nazik Alturki, Seifedine Kadry
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Published: Wiley 2025-02-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1049/cit2.12267
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author Veena Dillshad
Muhammad Attique Khan
Muhammad Nazir
Oumaima Saidani
Nazik Alturki
Seifedine Kadry
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description Abstract In computer vision applications like surveillance and remote sensing, to mention a few, deep learning has had considerable success. Medical imaging still faces a number of difficulties, including intra‐class similarity, a scarcity of training data, and poor contrast skin lesions, notably in the case of skin cancer. An optimisation‐aided deep learning‐based system is proposed for accurate multi‐class skin lesion identification. The sequential procedures of the proposed system start with preprocessing and end with categorisation. The preprocessing step is where a hybrid contrast enhancement technique is initially proposed for lesion identification with healthy regions. Instead of flipping and rotating data, the outputs from the middle phases of the hybrid enhanced technique are employed for data augmentation in the next step. Next, two pre‐trained deep learning models, MobileNetV2 and NasNet Mobile, are trained using deep transfer learning on the upgraded enriched dataset. Later, a dual‐threshold serial approach is employed to obtain and combine the features of both models. The next step was the variance‐controlled Marine Predator methodology, which the authors proposed as a superior optimisation method. The top features from the fused feature vector are classified using machine learning classifiers. The experimental strategy provided enhanced accuracy of 94.4% using the publicly available dataset HAM10000. Additionally, the proposed framework is evaluated compared to current approaches, with remarkable results.
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spelling doaj-art-b0c568f84c234dac991f3bb3d366dbcf2025-08-20T03:48:51ZengWileyCAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology2468-23222025-02-0110120722210.1049/cit2.12267D2LFS2Net: Multi‐class skin lesion diagnosis using deep learning and variance‐controlled Marine Predator optimisation: An application for precision medicineVeena Dillshad0Muhammad Attique Khan1Muhammad Nazir2Oumaima Saidani3Nazik Alturki4Seifedine Kadry5Department of Computer Science HITEC University Taxila PakistanDepartment of Computer Science HITEC University Taxila PakistanDepartment of Computer Science HITEC University Taxila PakistanDepartment of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University P.O. Box 84428 Riyadh 11671 Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University P.O. Box 84428 Riyadh 11671 Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering Lebanese American University Byblos LebanonAbstract In computer vision applications like surveillance and remote sensing, to mention a few, deep learning has had considerable success. Medical imaging still faces a number of difficulties, including intra‐class similarity, a scarcity of training data, and poor contrast skin lesions, notably in the case of skin cancer. An optimisation‐aided deep learning‐based system is proposed for accurate multi‐class skin lesion identification. The sequential procedures of the proposed system start with preprocessing and end with categorisation. The preprocessing step is where a hybrid contrast enhancement technique is initially proposed for lesion identification with healthy regions. Instead of flipping and rotating data, the outputs from the middle phases of the hybrid enhanced technique are employed for data augmentation in the next step. Next, two pre‐trained deep learning models, MobileNetV2 and NasNet Mobile, are trained using deep transfer learning on the upgraded enriched dataset. Later, a dual‐threshold serial approach is employed to obtain and combine the features of both models. The next step was the variance‐controlled Marine Predator methodology, which the authors proposed as a superior optimisation method. The top features from the fused feature vector are classified using machine learning classifiers. The experimental strategy provided enhanced accuracy of 94.4% using the publicly available dataset HAM10000. Additionally, the proposed framework is evaluated compared to current approaches, with remarkable results.https://doi.org/10.1049/cit2.12267contrast enhancementdeep learningdermoscopic imagesfeatures optimizationfusionskin cancer
spellingShingle Veena Dillshad
Muhammad Attique Khan
Muhammad Nazir
Oumaima Saidani
Nazik Alturki
Seifedine Kadry
D2LFS2Net: Multi‐class skin lesion diagnosis using deep learning and variance‐controlled Marine Predator optimisation: An application for precision medicine
CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology
contrast enhancement
deep learning
dermoscopic images
features optimization
fusion
skin cancer
title D2LFS2Net: Multi‐class skin lesion diagnosis using deep learning and variance‐controlled Marine Predator optimisation: An application for precision medicine
title_full D2LFS2Net: Multi‐class skin lesion diagnosis using deep learning and variance‐controlled Marine Predator optimisation: An application for precision medicine
title_fullStr D2LFS2Net: Multi‐class skin lesion diagnosis using deep learning and variance‐controlled Marine Predator optimisation: An application for precision medicine
title_full_unstemmed D2LFS2Net: Multi‐class skin lesion diagnosis using deep learning and variance‐controlled Marine Predator optimisation: An application for precision medicine
title_short D2LFS2Net: Multi‐class skin lesion diagnosis using deep learning and variance‐controlled Marine Predator optimisation: An application for precision medicine
title_sort d2lfs2net multi class skin lesion diagnosis using deep learning and variance controlled marine predator optimisation an application for precision medicine
topic contrast enhancement
deep learning
dermoscopic images
features optimization
fusion
skin cancer
url https://doi.org/10.1049/cit2.12267
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