Conventional computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) systems play a crucial role
in assisting medical professionals with the detection of skin diseases.
However, these systems often involve manual, time-consuming, and
error-prone processes. Recent studies show that machine learning models
have potential to improve the accuracy of CADx systems. In this work, we
present research findings aimed at improving the performance of CADx
systems for detecting skin diseases by applying ensemble machine
learning models. The investigation encompasses the exploration of three
popular classification methods: linear discriminant analysis (LDA),
support vector machine (SVM), and convolutional neural network (CNN);
and an ensemble model of CNN with SVM. The HAM10000 dataset from Kaggle
is used to train and test all classification models. Resampling is
employed to address class imbalance in the dataset. Through rigorous
experiments, the results highlight the compelling efficacy of the
ensemble CNNSVM model, unveiling heightened accuracy up to 92% (from
CNN accuracy 85% and SVM accuracy 83%). The outcome of this work has
profound implications for artificial intelligence (AI) accelerated
medical domains in advancing the accuracy and efficiency of skin disease
treatment.