Alex Varghese1, Achin Jain2, Mohammed Inamur Rahman3, Mudassir Khan4,*, Arun Kumar Dubey2, Iqrar Ahmad5, Yash Prakash Narayan1, Arvind Panwar6, Anurag Choubey7, Saurav Mallik8,9,*
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.144, No.2, pp. 1767-1791, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2025.067999
- 31 August 2025
Abstract Skin cancer remains a significant global health challenge, and early detection is crucial to improving patient outcomes. This study presents a novel deep learning framework that combines Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Transformers, and Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs) for robust skin cancer classification. To address data set imbalance, we employ StyleGAN3-based synthetic data augmentation alongside traditional techniques. The hybrid architecture effectively captures both local and global dependencies in dermoscopic images, while the GRU component models sequential patterns. Evaluated on the HAM10000 dataset, the proposed model achieves an accuracy of 90.61%, outperforming baseline architectures such as VGG16 More >