Enhanced Deep Learning Model for Superior Multi-Class Classification Performance

Skin cancer is a highly prevalent form of cancer worldwide. The clinical assessment of skin lesions is crucial for evaluating the disease's characteristics. However, this assessment is often hindered by the variability in interpretations and lengthy timelines, resulting in delayed diagnoses. An advanced computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system is needed to improve patient survival rates. This paper presents a Multi-class Skin Cancer Classification system using an enhanced VGG-16 model to improve the diagnosis of skin cancer. Our approach focuses on classifying multiple skin lesions types, specifically Melanocytic Nevus $(NV)$, Basal Cell Carcinoma $(BCC)$, Melanoma $(MEL)$, and Vascular Lesions $(VASC)$. The system was trained and evaluated on the Human Against Machine with 10,000 training images (HAM10000) dataset. We have conducted a comparative study between our method and several previously introduced techniques on the International Skin Image Collaboration (ISIC) dataset, and the results show that the proposed model outperforms previously proposed techniques.