Computer Aided Diagnostic Support System for Skin Cancer: A Review of Techniques and Algorithms

Table 4

Classification methods used in the literature for skin cancer diagnosis.

Classification method	Related references
𝐾-nearest neighbour	[124, 126, 163, 166, 200]
Decision trees	[87, 110, 146, 166] ADWAT [93, 244], Logistic Model tree (LMT) [111, 112, 225], CART [46, 245]
Statistical (discriminant analysis/logistic regression/multifactorial analysis)	[80, 96, 120, 134, 141, 231, 246] DA [117, 121, 247, 248] mathematical classifier [249], logistic regression [38, 166, 236, 237, 239, 250] linear classifier [163]
Rule-based classification	[125, 223, 223, 251, 251–254]
Artificial neural network	[41, 90–92, 94, 126, 135, 140, 141, 157, 166, 177, 196, 209, 230, 246, 248, 254–258]
Support vector machine (SVM)	[40, 46, 61, 77, 91, 94, 118, 166, 196, 200, 230, 259, 260]
Extreme learning machine	[177]
Others (Gaussian maximum likelihood, Bayesian classifier)	[46, 126, 200]