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The application of machine learning technologies for cancer detection purposes are rising due to their ever-increasing accuracy. Melanoma is one of the most common types of skin cancer. Detection of melanoma in the early stages can significantly prevent illness and fetal death. The application of innovative machine learning technology is highly relevant and valuable due to medical practitioners' difficulty in early-stage diagnoses. This paper provides an open-source tutorial on the performance of an algorithm that helps to diagnose melanoma by extracting features from dermatoscopic images and their classification. First, we used a Dull-Razor preprocessing method to remove extra details such as hair. Next, histogram adjustments and lighting thresholds were used to increase the contrast and select lesion boundaries. After using a threshold, a binary-classified version of image was obtained, and the boundary of the lesion was determined. As a result, the features from skin tissue were extracted. Finally, a comparative study was conducted between three methods which are Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Support Vector Machine (SVM) and K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN). The results show that ANN could achieve better accuracy (83.5%). In order to mitigate the biases in existing studies, the source code of this research is available at hadi-naghavipour.com/ml to serve aspiring researchers for improvement, correction and learning and provide a guideline for technology manager practitioners.

In today’s world, there is a notable focus on incorporating disabled people within the community and the workplace. Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to significantly impact empowering individuals with disabilities to enhance inclusivity and autonomy for this demographic in the era of Society 5.0. This paper aims to offer a bibliometric analysis of the increasing number of publications addressing the potential impact of AI on disabled individuals and their future employment. To conduct this analysis, Scopus served as the bibliographic source, using Disability, Employment, and Future Workforce as the search terms, yielding 203 publications on the subject of study from 1973 to 2024. The analysis was conducted using VOS viewer. The results indicate that as Society 5.0 evolves, advancements in AI have the potential to significantly empower individuals with disabilities, enhancing inclusivity and autonomy for this demographic.