Table 3.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria for paper selection.

Inclusion Criteria (ICs)	Exclusion Criteria (ECs)
IC1: The papers should focus on skin disease or cancer detection or segmentation or classification	EC1: Publications that are not focused on skin disease and cancer detection or classification or segmentation.
IC2: The papers should include different types of diseases, mainly skin cancer or melanoma.	EC2: Publications not peer-reviewed, abstracts, editorial letters, book reviews, and scientific reports.
IC3: The papers should be published in reputable journals with an impact factor and indexed in the Web of Science or Scopus or recognized conference proceedings.	EC3: M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses, posters, and seminars.
IC4: The studies should be written in English.	EC4: Studies that are published prior to 2020 except for Section 1 and Section 4.
IC5: Publication year for Section 1 and Section 4 can be any year of publication.	EC5: Skin disease detection and classification based on case studies.
IC6: The publication year for study paper to be included in the systematic review must be between 2020 and 2023	EC6: Study papers that are not peer-reviewed and journals that are not indexed in the Web of Science or Scopus.