MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541122221 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 4, 2025, for 'automated skin cancer detection system using deep learning and ensemble methods.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Adrija Bhattacharya; Mr. Yash Kumar; and Mr. Gaurav Jain.
The application for the patent was published on Jan. 2, under issue no. 01/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides an automated skin cancer detection system comprising a data preprocessing module configured to receive dermoscopic images and perform image standardization including resizing and normalizing pixel values, a deep learning module comprising at least one convolutional neural network with transfer learning using pre-trained weights, wherein the network comprises a feature extraction backbone, global average pooling, dense layers with dropout regularization, and a classification layer with softmax activation for multi-class prediction, a class balancing mechanism configured to compute class weights inversely proportional to class frequencies and apply them during training to address imbalanced distribution between benign and malignant categories, and an output interface configured to classify dermoscopic images into diagnostic categories and provide confidence scores."
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