An Integrated Deep Learning Model with EfficientNet and ResNet for Accurate Multi-Class Skin Disease Classification.

Abstract

Background: Medical diagnosis for skin diseases, including leukemia, early skin cancer, benign neoplasms, and alternative disorders, becomes difficult because of external variations among groups of patients. A research goal is to create a fusion-level deep learning model that improves stability and skin disease classification performance. Methods: The model design merges three convolutional neural networks (CNNs): EfficientNet-B0, EfficientNet-B2, and ResNet50, which operate independently under distinct branches. The neural network model uses its capability to extract detailed features from multiple strong architectures to reach accurate results along with tight classification precision. A fusion mechanism completes its operation by transmitting extracted features to dense and dropout layers for generalization and reduced dimensionality. Analyses for this research utilized the 27,153-image Kaggle Skin Diseases Image Dataset, which distributed testing materials into training (80%), validation (10%), and testing (10%) portions for ten skin disorder classes. Results: Evaluation of the proposed model revealed 99.14% accuracy together with excellent precision, recall, and F1-score metrics. Conclusions: The proposed deep learning approach demonstrates strong potential as a starting point for dermatological diagnosis automation since it shows promise for clinical use in skin disease classification.