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It can be diagnosed by expert dermatologists, using dermoscopic imaging. It is challenging for dermatologists to diagnose melanoma because of the very minor differences between melanoma and non-melanoma cancers. Most of the research on skin cancer diagnosis is related to the binary classification of lesions into melanoma and non-melanoma. However, to date, limited research has been conducted on the classification of melanoma subtypes. The current study investigated the effectiveness of dermoscopy and deep learning in classifying melanoma subtypes, such as, AM. In this study, we present a novel deep learning model, developed to classify skin cancer. We utilized a dermoscopic image dataset from the Yonsei University Health System South Korea for the classification of skin lesions. Various image processing and data augmentation techniques have been applied to develop a robust automated system for AM detection. 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