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ArticleScientific reports2025

Precision and efficiency in skin cancer segmentation through a dual encoder deep learning model.

Asaad Ahmed, Guangmin Sun, Anas Bilal, Yu Li, Shouki A Ebad

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Asaad AhmedSchool of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China.
Guangmin SunSchool of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China.
Anas BilalCollege of Information Science and Technology, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, 571158, China.
Yu LiSchool of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China.
Shouki A EbadCenter for Scientific Research and Entrepreneurship, Northern Border University, Arar, 73213, Saudi Arabia. shouki.abbad@nbu.edu.sa.

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Deanship of Scientific Research at Northern Border University NBU-FFR-2025-1564-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Skin cancer is a prevalent health concern, and accurate segmentation of skin lesions is crucial for early diagnosis. Existing methods for skin lesion segmentation often face trade-offs between efficiency and feature extraction capabilities. This paper proposes Dual Skin Segmentation (DuaSkinSeg), a deep-learning model, to address this gap by utilizing dual encoders for improved performance. DuaSkinSeg leverages a pre-trained MobileNetV2 for efficient local feature extraction. Subsequently, a Vision Transformer-Convolutional Neural Network (ViT-CNN) encoder-decoder architecture extracts higher-level features focusing on long-range dependencies. This approach aims to combine the efficiency of MobileNetV2 with the feature extraction capabilities of the ViT encoder for improved segmentation performance. To evaluate DuaSkinSeg's effectiveness, we conducted experiments on three publicly available benchmark datasets: ISIC 2016, ISIC 2017, and ISIC 2018. The results demonstrate that DuaSkinSeg achieves competitive performance compared to existing methods, highlighting the potential of the dual encoder architecture for accurate skin lesion segmentation.

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Deep LearningImage Processing, Computer-AssistedSkin NeoplasmsAlgorithmsHumansNeural Networks, ComputerSkinConvolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)Dual EncoderSkin Lesion SegmentationVision Transformer (ViT)ViT-CNN

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PMID39924555
PMCPMC11808120

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