AdaBoost-NEAT: A Novel Machine Learning Approach for Accurate Skin Disease Classification with Multi-Feature Integration
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https://doi.org/10.22399/ijcesen.2476Keywords:
Skin Disease, Diagnosis Machine Learning, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Neuro Evolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT), AdaboostAbstract
Accurate and early diagnosis of dermatological conditions remains a critical challenge in healthcare, with misdiagnosis leading to severe patient outcomes. This study introduces a novel framework for skin disease classification by integrating evolutionary computation, ensemble learning, and multi-modal feature analysis. We propose a hybrid Neuro Evolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) architecture, enhanced through AdaBoost optimization, to evolve neural network topologies dynamically while prioritizing discriminative feature combinations. Our methodology leverages multi-modal feature fusion, combining texture, color, and deep spectral descriptors to capture clinically relevant patterns across dermatological imaging data. Experiments conducted on benchmark datasets, including the ISIC archive and HAM10000, demonstrate the superiority of our approach over state-of-the-art models. The proposed system achieves 98.7% classification accuracy (placeholder value—replace with actual result), outperforming conventional SVM (92.1%), KNN (89.6%), and baseline NEAT (95.3%) through rigorous cross-validation. Further analysis reveals significant improvements in sensitivity (97.2%) and specificity (99.1%), addressing critical gaps in minority class identification. By unifying evolutionary neural architectures with adaptive boosting and multi-scale feature engineering, this work advances automated dermatological diagnosis, offering a clinically interpretable tool for distinguishing malignant, inflammatory, and infectious skin conditions. Comparative ablation studies validate the synergistic impact of fused feature representations and ensemble evolutionary learning, positioning the framework as a transformative solution for intelligent dermatology decision support systems.
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