Improved Wild Horse Optimizer with Deep Learning Model for Skin Lesion Detection and Classification on Dermoscopic Images

Melanoma is a deadly kind of skin cancer which can spread to other parts of the body. Therefore, it is necessary to identify melanoma at the beginning level. Visual examinationat the time of medical examination of skin lesion is a challenging process as there exist high resemblance among the lesions. Besides, dermoscopy is a non-invasive imaging tool which enables visualizationof the skin surface by light magnifying device and immersion fluid. Traditional image processing models such as histogram thresholding, clustering, or active contours are employed to segment skin lesions. This motivates the study of how to best employ AI, and deep learning (DL) algorithms in particular, to identify skin lesions in dermoscopic pictures. By using these images, current research refines the existing wild horse optimizer (IWHO) by using a deep learning driven skin lesion detection and classification (IWHODL-SLDC) method.The proposed model utilizes optimal Tsallis entropy based image segmentation. Besides, Squeeze Netapproach can be employed to derive feature vectors. Also, IWHO with deep wavelet neural network (DWNN) technique is used to classify the dermoscopic images. Numerous tests are carried out to guarantee the enhancement of the IWHODL-SLDC method on the reference dataset. It was found via experimentation that the IWHODL-SLDC model outperformed the other approaches in a wide range of ways.