Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui1,2,*, Saheed Ademola Bello2, Muhammad Liman Gambo2, Abdul Khader Jilani Saudagar3,*, Mohamad A. Alawad4, Amir Hussain5
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.146, No.2, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2026.074283
- 26 February 2026
Abstract Visual diagnosis of skin cancer is challenging due to subtle inter-class similarities, variations in skin texture, the presence of hair, and inconsistent illumination. Deep learning models have shown promise in assisting early detection, yet their performance is often limited by the severe class imbalance present in dermoscopic datasets. This paper proposes CANNSkin, a skin cancer classification framework that integrates a convolutional autoencoder with latent-space oversampling to address this imbalance. The autoencoder is trained to reconstruct lesion images, and its latent embeddings are used as features for classification. To enhance minority-class representation, the Synthetic Minority Oversampling… More >