Venkatesh, Jayaraman
Vijayalakshmi, Rahul Aandha Krishnan
Krishnan, Deepa
Partheeban, Pachaivannan
Article History
Received: 10 September 2025
Accepted: 12 March 2026
First Online: 24 March 2026
Declarations
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: This study was conducted using an open-access dataset ("Skin Diseases Image Dataset") publicly available on Kaggle. No patient-identifiable information was used. All data were fully anonymized prior to analysis, and no direct experiments on humans were performed. Therefore, separate institutional ethical approval was not required.
: Not applicable. The study utilized a publicly available, anonymized image dataset and did not involve human participants, clinical interaction, or data requiring participant consent.
: Not applicable. No individual person’s data (such as images, text, or clinical records) are included in this manuscript.
: Clinical trial number is not applicable for this research, as this study involves computational analysis of an existing, open-access dataset and is not a clinical trial.
: The authors declare no competing interests.