A study conducted by researchers at the Nanyang Institute of Technology in Henan, China, proposes a new methodology for the early diagnosis of melanoma skin cancer using dermoscopic images. The method involves scaling and enhancing the quality of the images, extracting features based on the Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM), and using a newly developed version of the Archimedes Optimization Algorithm (DAOA) to select the most relevant features. The selected features are then classified using a Support Vector Machine (SVM) to distinguish between benign and malignant lesions. The proposed method achieved high values for performance indicators and demonstrated an accuracy of 88%, sensitivity of 96%, specificity of 81%, precision of 97%, and F-measure of 97% for the diagnosis of melanoma. [Extracted from the article]