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like other cancers. Malignant melanoma is the third type or stage of skin cancer
which leads to death. It can be prevented only when it is detected at a very
early stage but thats the challenging
task in melanoma diagnosis. Most of the clinicians are familiar with Asymmetry,
Border, Color and Diameter (ABCD) analysis to predict and diagnose the melanoma.
Asymmetry plays a major role and it will be one of the best indicators to confirm
the presence of cancerous melanocytes. When the images of melanoma skin lesions
are subjected to preprocessing and it is investigated with the help of emerging
techniques such as Evolutionary Programming, Fuzzy Logic, Artificial Neural
Networks and Genetic Programming and Algorithms, it will provide better assistance
for the clinicians to predict the melanoma at a very early stage. The study
presents a review on various soft computing techniques that exist in the literature
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