Journal Article
Under ReviewQ1From Heatmaps to Language: Explainable Skin Cancer Diagnosis Using CNN–VLM Integration with an Expert-Annotated Dataset
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Journal / Venue
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Paper Link
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Metrics Updated: May 2026Elsevier
Cite Score
12.2
Impact Factor
6.2
Quartile
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Keywords
Skin CancerExplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)Vision–Language Model (VLM)Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)Grad-CAM++Dermatology ImagingMedical Image Interpretation
Authors
Faysal Ahmmed
faysalahmmed4200@gmail.comAjmy Alaly
alalyajmy@gmail.comSamanta Mehnaj
samantamehnaj2001@gmail.comAsef Rahman Antik
asefrahman2001@gmail.comM. F. Mridha
firoz.mridha@aiub.eduOverview
Developed an explainable skin cancer diagnosis framework combining Xception, CBAM, and Grad-CAM++ with a fine-tuned vision-language model for accurate and interpretable predictions.
Abstract
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