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Malignant melanoma (MM) is one of the deadliest types of skin cancer. Analysing dermatoscopic images plays an important role in the early detection of MM and other pigmented skin lesions. Among different computer-based methods, deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Amirreza Mahbod , Philipp Tschandl , Georg Langs , Rupert Ecker , Isabella Ellinger

Skin cancer, particularly melanoma, remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality, making early detection critical. AI-driven dermatology systems often rely on skin lesion segmentation as a preprocessing step to delineate the lesion from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Kuniko Paxton , Medina Kapo , Amila Akagić , Koorosh Aslansefat , Dhavalkumar Thakker , Yiannis Papadopoulos

Automatic diagnosis of malignant melanoma highly depends on the segmentation methods used for the suspicious lesion. We suggest the parameter selection method (PSM) and maximum area method (MAM) for the segmentation of the lesion to be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Seungmin Park , Hyunju Lee , Kiwoon Kwon

Melanoma is the most lethal subtype of skin cancer, and early and accurate detection of this disease can greatly improve patients' outcomes. Although machine learning models, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have shown great…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Tanay Donde

This work summarizes the results of the largest skin image analysis challenge in the world, hosted by the International Skin Imaging Collaboration (ISIC), a global partnership that has organized the world's largest public repository of…

Automated skin lesion classification using deep learning has shown remarkable accuracy, yet clinical adoption remains limited due to the "black box" nature of these models. We present MelanomaNet, an explainable deep learning system for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Sukhrobbek Ilyosbekov

Skin diseases are among the most prevalent health issues, and accurate computer-aided diagnosis methods are of importance for both dermatologists and patients. However, most of the existing methods overlook the essential domain knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Yan-Jie Zhou , Wei Liu , Yuan Gao , Jing Xu , Le Lu , Yuping Duan , Hao Cheng , Na Jin , Xiaoyong Man , Shuang Zhao , Yu Wang

This study focuses on analyzing dermoscopy images to determine the depth of melanomas, which is a critical factor in diagnosing and treating skin cancer. The Breslow depth, measured from the top of the granular layer to the deepest point of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Miguel Nogales , Begoña Acha , Fernando Alarcón , José Pereyra , Carmen Serrano

The prevalence of skin melanoma is rapidly increasing as well as the recorded death cases of its patients. Automatic image segmentation tools play an important role in providing standardized computer-assisted analysis for skin melanoma…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Ahmed H. Shahin , Karim Amer , Mustafa A. Elattar

Glaucoma is one of the primary causes of vision loss around the world, necessitating accurate and efficient detection methods. Traditional manual detection approaches have limitations in terms of cost, time, and subjectivity. Recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-03 Aized Amin Soofi , Fazal-e-Amin

One of the more significant obstacles in classification of skin cancer is the presence of artifacts. This paper investigates the effect of dark corner artifacts, which result from the use of dermoscopes, on the performance of a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Samuel William Pewton , Bill Cassidy , Connah Kendrick , Moi Hoon Yap

In this paper we present the methods of our submission to the ISIC 2018 challenge for skin lesion diagnosis (Task 3). The dataset consists of 10000 images with seven image-level classes to be distinguished by an automated algorithm. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Nils Gessert , Thilo Sentker , Frederic Madesta , Rüdiger Schmitz , Helge Kniep , Ivo Baltruschat , René Werner , Alexander Schlaefer

Rapid growth in the development of medical imaging analysis technology has been propelled by the great interest in improving computer-aided diagnosis and detection (CAD) systems for three popular image visualization tasks: classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Manu Goyal , Moi Hoon Yap , Saeed Hassanpour

Current AI-assisted skin image diagnosis has achieved dermatologist-level performance in classifying skin cancer, driven by rapid advancements in deep learning architectures. However, unlike traditional vision tasks, skin images in general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Xin Hu , Janet Wang , Jihun Hamm , Rie R Yotsu , Zhengming Ding

The diagnosis of primary bone tumors is challenging, as the initial complaints are often non-specific. Early detection of bone cancer is crucial for a favorable prognosis. Incidentally, lesions may be found on radiographs obtained for other…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Tal Zimbalist , Ronnie Rosen , Keren Peri-Hanania , Yaron Caspi , Bar Rinott , Carmel Zeltser-Dekel , Eyal Bercovich , Yonina C. Eldar , Shai Bagon

Image segmentation is a crucial step in a wide range of method image processing systems. It is useful in visualization of the different objects present in the image. In spite of the several methods available in the literature, image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-07-18 I. Laurence Aroquiaraj , K. Thangavel

Skin cancer detection still represents a major challenge in healthcare. Common detection methods can be lengthy and require human assistance which falls short in many countries. Previous research demonstrates how convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Carolin Flosdorf , Justin Engelker , Igor Keller , Nicolas Mohr

Many automatic skin lesion diagnosis systems use segmentation as a preprocessing step to diagnose skin conditions because skin lesion shape, border irregularity, and size can influence the likelihood of malignancy. This paper presents,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Bill S. Lin , Kevin Michael , Shivam Kalra , H. R. Tizhoosh

Early detection of melanoma, a potentially lethal type of skin cancer with high prevalence worldwide, improves patient prognosis. In retrospective studies, artificial intelligence (AI) has proven to be helpful for enhancing melanoma…

The utilization of computational photography becomes increasingly essential in the medical field. Today, imaging techniques for dermatology range from two-dimensional (2D) color imagery with a mobile device to professional clinical imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-06 Merlin A. Nau , Florian Schiffers , Yunhao Li , Bingjie Xu , Andreas Maier , Jack Tumblin , Marc Walton , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos , Florian Willomitzer , Oliver Cossairt