A Fusion-Based Approach for Skin Cancer Detection Combining Clinical Images, Dermoscopic Images, and Metadata

A Master of Science thesis in Machine Learning by Ansah Juned Siddiqui entitled, “A Fusion-Based Approach for Skin Cancer Detection Combining Clinical Images, Dermoscopic Images, and Metadata”, submitted in October 2025. Thesis advisor is Dr. Salam Dhou and thesis co-advisor is Dr. Tamer Shanableh....

وصف كامل

محفوظ في:
التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Siddiqui, Ansah Juned (author)
التنسيق: doctoralThesis
منشور في: 2025
الموضوعات:
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://hdl.handle.net/11073/33167
الوسوم: إضافة وسم
لا توجد وسوم, كن أول من يضع وسما على هذه التسجيلة!
_version_ 1864513440266059776
author Siddiqui, Ansah Juned
author_facet Siddiqui, Ansah Juned
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Dhou, Salam
Shanableh, Tamer
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Siddiqui, Ansah Juned
dc.date.none.fl_str_mv 2025-10
2026-02-19T10:16:21Z
2026-02-19T10:16:21Z
dc.format.none.fl_str_mv application/pdf
dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv 35.232-2025.62
https://hdl.handle.net/11073/33167
dc.language.none.fl_str_mv en_US
dc.relation.none.fl_str_mv Master of Science in Machine Learning (MSMLR)
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Multimodal Fusion
Skin Cancer
Deep Learning
Transfer Learning
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A Fusion-Based Approach for Skin Cancer Detection Combining Clinical Images, Dermoscopic Images, and Metadata
dc.type.none.fl_str_mv info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
description A Master of Science thesis in Machine Learning by Ansah Juned Siddiqui entitled, “A Fusion-Based Approach for Skin Cancer Detection Combining Clinical Images, Dermoscopic Images, and Metadata”, submitted in October 2025. Thesis advisor is Dr. Salam Dhou and thesis co-advisor is Dr. Tamer Shanableh. Soft copy is available (Thesis, Completion Certificate, Approval Signatures, and AUS Archives Consent Form).
format doctoralThesis
id aus_c04e01ad39239583f70791e11e924e31
identifier_str_mv 35.232-2025.62
language_invalid_str_mv en_US
network_acronym_str aus
network_name_str aus
oai_identifier_str oai:repository.aus.edu:11073/33167
publishDate 2025
repository.mail.fl_str_mv
repository.name.fl_str_mv
repository_id_str
spelling A Fusion-Based Approach for Skin Cancer Detection Combining Clinical Images, Dermoscopic Images, and MetadataSiddiqui, Ansah JunedMultimodal FusionSkin CancerDeep LearningTransfer LearningA Master of Science thesis in Machine Learning by Ansah Juned Siddiqui entitled, “A Fusion-Based Approach for Skin Cancer Detection Combining Clinical Images, Dermoscopic Images, and Metadata”, submitted in October 2025. Thesis advisor is Dr. Salam Dhou and thesis co-advisor is Dr. Tamer Shanableh. Soft copy is available (Thesis, Completion Certificate, Approval Signatures, and AUS Archives Consent Form).Skin cancer classification is a critical task where artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance diagnostic accuracy for both binary and multi-class classification. This research proposes a multimodal AI- driven framework to classify skin cancer lesions using dermoscopic images, clinical images, and patient metadata. By leveraging the MRA-MIDAS: Multimodal Image Dataset for AI-based Skin Cancer, this thesis aims to build a comprehensive model that is able to classify the patient cases into malignant or benign and further into specific malignant and benign classes. The objective of this thesis is achieved through developing an effective fusion strategy that captures complementary information from multiple modalities to improve both binary and multi-class classification performance. A major challenge in this task is handling varying image resolutions, which can impact feature consistency across modalities. To address this issue, the study introduces a novel region-of- interest (ROI) extraction method using object detection and feature matching techniques for precise spatial alignment. Additionally, various multimodal fusion strategies—early, intermediate, and late fusion are explored to determine the optimal approach for integrating tabular and image data. The experimental setup includes standalone image classification using Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN), metadata-based classification using classical machine learning algorithms, and multiple fusion techniques to assess their impact on overall classification performance. Both binary and multi-class classification tasks are conducted and evaluated. For binary classification, the late- fusion multimodal approach combining images and metadata with EfficientNetB7 and weighted averaging achieved the best performance, reaching an accuracy of 79.19%. For multi-class classification, the multimodal EfficientNet framework demonstrated strong results, with an accuracy of 90.3% for the malignant classifier (five classes), 71.91% for the benign classifier (six classes) and 70.5% for the unified classifier (11 classes). By systematically analyzing the effectiveness of various fusion approaches, this thesis showed that late fusion with weighted averaging was the most promising strategy, with EfficientNet-based models yielding the best overall performance. The malignant classifier achieved the highest accuracy, suggesting that malignant subtypes may possess more consistent visual features making classification easier as compared to the initial binary classification.College of EngineeringDepartment of Computer Science and EngineeringMaster of Science in Machine Learning (MSMLR)Dhou, SalamShanableh, Tamer2026-02-19T10:16:21Z2026-02-19T10:16:21Z2025-10info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesisapplication/pdf35.232-2025.62https://hdl.handle.net/11073/33167en_USMaster of Science in Machine Learning (MSMLR)oai:repository.aus.edu:11073/331672026-02-20T08:20:19Z
spellingShingle A Fusion-Based Approach for Skin Cancer Detection Combining Clinical Images, Dermoscopic Images, and Metadata
Siddiqui, Ansah Juned
Multimodal Fusion
Skin Cancer
Deep Learning
Transfer Learning
status_str publishedVersion
title A Fusion-Based Approach for Skin Cancer Detection Combining Clinical Images, Dermoscopic Images, and Metadata
title_full A Fusion-Based Approach for Skin Cancer Detection Combining Clinical Images, Dermoscopic Images, and Metadata
title_fullStr A Fusion-Based Approach for Skin Cancer Detection Combining Clinical Images, Dermoscopic Images, and Metadata
title_full_unstemmed A Fusion-Based Approach for Skin Cancer Detection Combining Clinical Images, Dermoscopic Images, and Metadata
title_short A Fusion-Based Approach for Skin Cancer Detection Combining Clinical Images, Dermoscopic Images, and Metadata
title_sort A Fusion-Based Approach for Skin Cancer Detection Combining Clinical Images, Dermoscopic Images, and Metadata
topic Multimodal Fusion
Skin Cancer
Deep Learning
Transfer Learning
url https://hdl.handle.net/11073/33167