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A Hybrid AI System for Real-Time Dermatological Condition Recognition and Interpretability Using YOLOv8 and EfficientNet-B0

Author(s) Mr. Harshith . S, Mr. Mirza Ayyan Abbas, Mr. Mohammad shahabuddin ., Mr. Syed Zaid .
Country India
Abstract Skin conditions, ranging from harmless spots to serious skin cancers, are a major global health issue, especially in places with few specialists. In busy clinics, traditional clinical assessments often face problems related to differences in opinions among observers and time limits because they rely heavily on visual and subjective evaluation. This paper presents a hybrid artificial intelligence system that integrates seven-class dermatoscopic image classification using EfficientNet-B0 and real-time lesion detection using YOLOv8m within a combined framework to tackle these challenges. To improve transparency and clinical use, the platform features lesion bounding-box visualization, Grad-CAM-based visual explanations, and risk assessment based on metadata. A meta-classifier refines predictions into low-, medium-, or high-risk categories based on patient factors such as age, sex, and lesion location. Additionally, a Flask-based web interface allows for tracking patient lesions over time, provides interactive visualization, and supports the uploading of images and metadata.
This system ranks among the top dermatology AI methods on the HAM10000 dataset, achieving an overall accuracy of 94.4% and maintaining good precision and recall for both common and rare lesion types. This shows that the proposed hybrid, interpretable, and ready-for-use system offers a practical and dependable solution for AI-assisted dermatological diagnosis in both clinic and teledermatology settings.
Keywords Dermatology AI, YOLOv8, EfficientNet-B0, Ensemble Models, Grad-CAM, Risk Stratification, Real-Time Inference, Flask, HAM10000.
Field Engineering
Published In Volume 16, Issue 4, October-December 2025
Published On 2025-11-30

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