Journal of Cybersecurity and Information Management JCIM 2690-6775 2769-7851 10.54216/JCIM https://www.americaspg.com/journals/show/3272 2019 2019 Informatics Institute for Postgraduate Studies, University of Information Technology & Communications, Iraq Belal Belal College of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Anbar, Iraq Belal Al Al-Khateeb Skin cancer detection through deep learning is an evolving field, where convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven to be very effective in feature extraction. However, this approach still faces some limitations due to the use of data augmentation, It is the generation of artificial images. Which significantly increase the computational load without generate new clinically meaningful data and may introduce shadowed features. Therefore, this study aims to propose a new approach that use CNNs to extract important features from skin cancer medical images using the HAM 10000 dataset. The proposed approach involves training two different CNN architectures, extracting features from convolutional layers, and then use PCA to make the retrieved features less dimensional. In order to categorize skin cancer into seven different categories of skin lesions, the remaining features are then merged and fed into a classifier that uses neural networks. In comparison to earlier studies that employed CNN architectures on the same dataset, the results demonstrated that this method preserves significant information while improving computational efficiency and achieving superior classification performance. The suggested approach achieved 95.66% accuracy for multi-class classification. 2025 2025 35 42 10.54216/JCIM.150204 https://www.americaspg.com/articleinfo/2/show/3272