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An Explainable Nature-Inspired Framework for Monkeypox Diagnosis: Xception Features Combined with NGBoost and African Vultures Optimization Algorithm

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Pith's one-line read The monkeypox model hits 97.5% accuracy with optimized deep features.

desk verdict Competent incremental pipeline undone by likely augmentation leakage in the cross-validation, so the SOTA claim doesn't hold as reported. read the letter →

arxiv 2504.17540 v1 pith:7CME4UET submitted 2025-04-24 cs.CV cs.AIcs.LGeess.IV

Ahmadreza Shateri , Negar Nourani , Morteza Dorrigiv , Hamid Nasiri This is my paper · ORCID
classification cs.CVcs.AIcs.LGeess.IV MSC 68T0768T1092C55
keywords monkeypoxdiagnosisskinlesionclassificationtransferlearningXceptionNGBoostAfricanVulturesOptimizationAlgorithmPCAdimensionalityreductionexplainableartificialintelligence
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The pith

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The reading

The paper argues that a low-cost image-classification pipeline can diagnose monkeypox from skin-lesion photos accurately enough to serve as a triage tool. The proposed framework takes frozen Xception deep features, compresses them with PCA, and classifies them with NGBoost whose hyperparameters are tuned by the African Vultures Optimization Algorithm. On the Monkeypox Skin Lesion Dataset, the paper reports 97.53% accuracy, 97.72% F1-score, and 97.47% AUC, beating the thirteen CNN feature extractors and four classifiers it compares against. If those numbers hold for new patients, the framework would give a fast, explainable alternative or complement to PCR testing in resource-constrained settings.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing mechanism is a four-stage pipeline: Xception, a deep CNN built on depthwise separable convolutions, is frozen and used to extract 2048 features per image; PCA cuts those features to 530; NGBoost, a boosting algorithm that fits a probabilistic output by natural gradients, classifies the reduced features; and AVOA, a swarm metaheuristic modeled on vulture foraging, searches the learning-rate and estimator-count space. What carries the argument is the coupling: PCA removes redundancy so the tuned NGBoost sees a low-dimensional, well-separated representation, and the optimizer finds hyperparameters that the paper shows beat other metaheuristics on the same folds.

What would settle it

Re-run the AVOA-NGBoost pipeline with 5-fold cross-validation stratified by the 162 unique patients so all augmented copies of one patient stay in the same fold; if mean accuracy drops materially below 97.53%, the claim that the model generalizes to new patients is not supported.

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Core claim

On the paper's own terms, the discovery is that a transfer-learned Xception network, reduced features, and a probabilistically trained NGBoost classifier with AVOA-tuned hyperparameters outperform both the plain deep feature extractors and several other boosting and SVM classifiers on the Monkeypox Skin Lesion Dataset. The authors report that the proposed AVOA-NGBoost reaches 97.53% accuracy, 97.72% F1, and 97.47% AUC in 5-fold cross-validation, with per-class accuracy of 98.10% for monkeypox and 96.84% for non-monkeypox. They also show that PCA cuts training time by roughly four-fifths and that AVOA beats five other metaheuristics in convergence and final fitness on the same folds.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that random 5-fold splitting of the fourteen-fold augmented image set estimates accuracy on new patients; because augmented versions of the same original lesion can appear in both training and test folds, the folds may leak patient identity and inflate the reported figures.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • If the reported figures hold, a frozen pretrained CNN plus PCA plus an optimized gradient-boosting classifier is enough to separate monkeypox from chickenpox and measles at clinical-grade accuracy on this dataset.
  • PCA removed roughly three-quarters of the features and cut training time from 85.97 seconds to 22.58 seconds for NGBoost, supporting use in settings where computational resources are limited.
  • AVOA tuning improves all four classifiers, and the largest gain appears for NGBoost, so hyperparameter search is a necessary part of the claimed result rather than a cosmetic addition.
  • Grad-CAM and LIME highlight lesion regions in the explanations, giving clinicians a visual reason to trust or question individual predictions.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A fair test of the headline number requires patient-level cross-validation; the paper does not report this, so I would not treat 97.53% as a generalization estimate for new patients.
  • The paper compares AVOA only with other metaheuristics. Comparing it with cheap baselines at equal budget, such as random search or coarse grid search, would isolate how much the optimizer itself contributes.
  • Because NGBoost outputs a probabilistic prediction, the framework could support an uncertainty-aware referral rule that flags low-confidence cases for PCR or clinician review; the paper does not evaluate calibration, so this is a natural next step rather than a demonstrated property.
  • The frozen Xception features are trained on ImageNet; fine-tuning the backbone or using a medical-imaging pretrained backbone is a testable variant that could change the accuracy-versus-speed tradeoff.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes an explainable framework for monkeypox diagnosis from skin lesion images, combining Xception deep features, PCA dimensionality reduction, and an NGBoost classifier whose hyperparameters are tuned with the African Vultures Optimization Algorithm (AVOA). The authors report state-of-the-art performance on the Monkeypox Skin Lesion Dataset (MSLD), with 97.53% accuracy, 97.72% F1-score, and 97.47% AUC under 5-fold cross-validation, and they provide Grad-CAM and LIME visualizations for interpretability. The paper includes extensive comparisons across thirteen feature extractors and four classifiers, as well as comparisons of AVOA with other metaheuristic optimizers.

Significance. If the reported results were valid, the paper would make a useful practical contribution: it offers a complete, coherent pipeline for automated triage of monkeypox versus other rash illnesses, uses a publicly available dataset, and incorporates probabilistic classification and explainability, which are desirable for clinical decision support. The experimental breadth is substantial, with 52 feature-extractor/classifier combinations and multiple optimization baselines. However, the central claim of state-of-the-art performance is not supported by the experiments as reported, because the evaluation protocol is compromised by likely patient leakage and by model selection on the same data used for final metrics. These are not cosmetic issues; they directly affect the headline accuracy, F1-score, and AUC, and they undermine the generalization claims in the abstract and conclusion.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 3.2 and Section 6] The 5-fold cross-validation in Section 6 randomly splits the augmented Train folder into image-level folds, but Section 3.2 and Table 1 show that the MSLD consists of only 162 unique patients and was augmented fourteen-fold, so each original lesion has many augmented siblings. With random image-level splits, augmented copies of the same original image can appear in both training and test folds. Because the Xception features are frozen ImageNet features and PCA/NGBoost operate directly on those features, the classifier can exploit pixel-level near-duplicates shared by augmented siblings rather than learning to recognize new patients' lesions. As a result, the mean accuracy of 97.53% and F1-score of 97.72% in Table 11, and the corresponding state-of-the-art claim in the abstract, are inflated and do not measure generalization to new patients. The authors need to repeat the evaluation with patient-level (or at least original-image-level) grouped cross-validation and, ideally, an external validation set.
  2. [Section 6 (Figure 6, Tables 5 and 10)] The PCA variance ratio is selected as the value yielding the highest classification accuracy on the augmented dataset (Figure 6 and Table 3), and AVOA is used on the same data to select NGBoost hyperparameters (Table 5). The final metrics in Table 10 are then reported from 5-fold cross-validation on that same dataset. This is model selection on the evaluation data: the reported accuracy, F1-score, and AUC are optimistically biased because the same data have been used both to choose the configuration and to estimate performance. A nested cross-validation, or a held-out test set that is completely untouched during PCA variance selection and hyperparameter optimization, is required to obtain unbiased performance estimates.
  3. [Section 7 and Table 11] The conclusion claims that the low standard deviation across folds in Table 11 demonstrates generalizability and supports the model as a 'highly precise diagnostic tool' for new patients. This claim is not supported because the cross-validation folds are drawn from the same patient population and contain overlapping augmented images, as described in the first major comment. The stability of results across folds within this leakage-prone setup says nothing about performance on new patients, who would present lesions not derived from the same original images. The conclusion overreaches the evidence.
minor comments (7)
  1. [Section 5, Eq. (27)] The F1-score formula is misprinted: it is written as TP / (TP + 0.5(FP + FN)), which is not the standard F1-score; the correct form is 2TP / (2TP + FP + FN). The reported numbers appear to have been computed correctly, but the formula should be fixed.
  2. [Section 3.2 and Table 1] The split sizes are inconsistent: the text says the dataset was split in a 70:10:20 proportion, and Table 1 lists 3,192 augmented images, yet the augmented Train folder is stated to contain 2,142 images, which is 67.1% of 3,192 rather than 70%. The relationship among the original images, the 3,192 augmented images, and the 2,142-image Train folder should be clarified.
  3. [Section 4.2.2.2] The sentence 'The core concept of SVM is to identify an optimal decision boundary...' is duplicated verbatim in the SVM description.
  4. [Section 2] In the summary of Saha et al., the architecture name is misspelled as 'Densnet'; it should be 'DenseNet'.
  5. [Section 4.2.3.1, Eq. (22)] The notation 'Γ(1 + β2)' in the Lévy flight expression is ambiguous; it should be written as Γ((1 + β)/2), which is the standard form.
  6. [Figure 11 caption] The caption refers to the class 'Normal', but the dataset labels are 'Monkeypox' and 'Others'; this inconsistency should be corrected.
  7. [Section 6, Figure 7] The t-test applied to t-SNE coordinates is statistically questionable because t-SNE embeddings are stochastic and the coordinates are not independent samples; the interpretation of these t-values should be justified or removed.

Circularity Check

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No circularity: the reported accuracy, F1, and AUC are empirical measurements, not consequences derived by construction from the model's inputs.

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain is: Xception frozen ImageNet features, PCA dimensionality reduction, NGBoost classification, and AVOA hyperparameter search, followed by 5-fold cross-validation metrics. None of these steps defines the output in terms of the target label or vice versa. The accuracy, F1-score, and AUC in Table 10 are measured on held-out folds, not algebraically forced by the hyperparameter search; AVOA selects values by maximizing a fitness function, and the reported test metrics are separate measurements. The self-citations (Abbasniya et al. 2022, Farzipour et al. 2023, Ghaheri et al. 2024) appear in background and method-illustration contexts and are not load-bearing: they do not supply the claimed 97.53% result, do not justify a uniqueness claim, and do not define the model's components. The more serious concern—5-fold CV applied to fourteen-fold augmented images without patient-level grouping—is an evaluation-validity threat that could inflate the headline numbers, but it is not circular reasoning: the reported metric is not equivalent to an input by construction. Therefore no circular step is present.

Assumptions & free parameters 4 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on domain assumptions rather than mathematical axioms. The main free parameters are hyperparameters and a PCA variance ratio chosen on the data being evaluated. No invented entities are introduced.

free parameters (4)
  • NGBoost learning rate = 0.10921481
    AVOA-selected over [1e-7, 0.9] (Table 5); central to final accuracy.
  • NGBoost n_estimators = 5
    AVOA-selected over [3, 20] (Table 5).
  • PCA variance ratio = 0.97 (530 features)
    Chosen from Figure 6 based on classifier accuracy; affects all subsequent results.
  • AVOA control parameters = population=50, iterations=40, gamma=2.5, alpha=0.8, P1=0.6, P2=0.4, P3=0.6
    Manually configured in Table 6; influence the search and the final hyperparameters.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption ImageNet-pretrained Xception features, with layers frozen, are informative for monkeypox lesion classification.
    Section 4.3 uses frozen Xception without fine-tuning.
  • ad hoc to paper Random 5-fold splits of augmented images are a valid proxy for generalization to new patients.
    Section 6 performs CV on the augmented Train folder; Table 1 reports unique patients but no patient-level grouping.
  • domain assumption MSLD web-scraped labels are correct.
    Section 3.1 describes web-scraped images; no label verification is described.
  • domain assumption Accuracy on MSLD implies clinical diagnostic utility.
    The introduction and conclusion frame the model as a diagnostic tool; no prospective or external validation is provided.

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The recent global spread of monkeypox, particularly in regions where it has not historically been prevalent, has raised significant public health concerns. Early and accurate diagnosis is critical for effective disease management and control. In response, this study proposes a novel deep learning-based framework for the automated detection of monkeypox from skin lesion images, leveraging the power of transfer learning, dimensionality reduction, and advanced machine learning techniques. We utilize the newly developed Monkeypox Skin Lesion Dataset (MSLD), which includes images of monkeypox, chickenpox, and measles, to train and evaluate our models. The proposed framework employs the Xception architecture for deep feature extraction, followed by Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for dimensionality reduction, and the Natural Gradient Boosting (NGBoost) algorithm for classification. To optimize the model's performance and generalization, we introduce the African Vultures Optimization Algorithm (AVOA) for hyperparameter tuning, ensuring efficient exploration of the parameter space. Our results demonstrate that the proposed AVOA-NGBoost model achieves state-of-the-art performance, with an accuracy of 97.53%, F1-score of 97.72% and an AUC of 97.47%. Additionally, we enhance model interpretability using Grad-CAM and LIME techniques, providing insights into the decision-making process and highlighting key features influencing classification. This framework offers a highly precise and efficient diagnostic tool, potentially aiding healthcare providers in early detection and diagnosis, particularly in resource-constrained environments.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Illustrative example of the dataset. Images a-g: Class ’MonkeyPox’. Images h–n: Class ’Others’. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Illustrative example of the fourteen-fold augmentation on an image from the ’Monkeypox’ class. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. LightGBM leaf-wise tree growth (Abbasniya et al., 2022). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: NGBoost is modular with respect to choice of base learner, distribution, and scoring rule (Duan [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_4.png]
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Proposed methodological architecture. 28 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Classification performance as a function of PCA variance ratio. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Visualization of feature sets using t-SNE: (a) original data, (b) Xception feature extraction, (c) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Convergence curves of average fitness function for parameter optimization methods. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p040_8.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Visualization of confusion matrices for proposed model. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p042_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: ROC curves of different classifiers. the primary signs of sickness can be discovered [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p045_10.png]
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: (a) and (f) represent the class ’Monkeypox,’ and (k) and (p) represent the class ’Normal.’ (b) and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p046_11.png]

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