Table 4.

The validation results of the compared method for skin cancer diagnosis.

Method	Performance metric
	NPV	PPV	Specificity	Accuracy	Sensitivity
PSO	93.69	89.19	88.29	88.29	90.99
m-Skin Doctor	83.87	65.76	61.26	81.98	83.78
GFAC	88.28	77.48	82.88	86.48	89.19
ANN	82.88	58.56	56.76	67.57	81.98
GA	85.58	74.77	79.28	81.08	79.28
Proposed method	93.69	85.58	89.19	92.79	90.99