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Melanoma represents a critical health risk due to its aggressive progression and high mortality, underscoring the need for early, interpretable diagnostic tools. While deep learning has advanced in skin lesion classification, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Ciro Listone , Aniello Murano

Breast cancer is one of the main causes of cancer death worldwide. Early diagnostics significantly increases the chances of correct treatment and survival, but this process is tedious and often leads to a disagreement between pathologists.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Alexander Rakhlin , Alexey Shvets , Vladimir Iglovikov , Alexandr A. Kalinin

Melanoma is a curable aggressive skin cancer if detected early. Typically, the diagnosis involves initial screening with subsequent biopsy and histopathological examination if necessary. Computer aided diagnosis offers an objective score…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Xin Yi , Ekta Walia , Paul Babyn

Early detection and segmentation of skin lesions is crucial for timely diagnosis and treatment, necessary to improve the survival rate of patients. However, manual delineation is time consuming and subject to intra- and inter-observer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Sulaiman Vesal , Shreyas Malakarjun Patil , Nishant Ravikumar , Andreas Maier

Existing studies for automated melanoma diagnosis are based on single-time point images of lesions. However, melanocytic lesions de facto are progressively evolving and, moreover, benign lesions can progress into malignant melanoma.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Zhen Yu , Jennifer Nguyen , Xiaojun Chang , John Kelly , Catriona Mclean , Lei Zhang , Victoria Mar , Zongyuan Ge

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer developed from melanocytes. It is one of the most lethal types of cancer, accounting for approximately 75% of skin cancer deaths. Late stage melanoma is very difficult to treat, since the cancer cells are…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-28 Xue Teng , Fuad Gwadry , Haley McConkey , Scott Ernst , Femida Gwadry-Sridhar

Dense object detection and temporal tracking are needed across applications domains ranging from people-tracking to analysis of satellite imagery over time. The detection and tracking of malignant skin cancers and benign moles poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Yunzhu Li , Andre Esteva , Brett Kuprel , Rob Novoa , Justin Ko , Sebastian Thrun

Skin cancer is one of the deadly types of cancer and is common in the world. Recently, there has been a huge jump in the rate of people getting skin cancer. For this reason, the number of studies on skin cancer classification with deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Abdurrahim Yilmaz , Mucahit Kalebasi , Yegor Samoylenko , Mehmet Erhan Guvenilir , Huseyin Uvet

Computer-aided diagnosis systems for classification of different type of skin lesions have been an active field of research in recent decades. It has been shown that introducing lesions and their attributes masks into lesion classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Mostafa Jahanifar , Neda Zamani Tajeddin , Navid Alemi Koohbanani , Ali Gooya , Nasir Rajpoot

Melanoma diagnosed and treated in its early stages can increase the survival rate. A projected increase in skin cancer incidents and a dearth of dermatopathologists have emphasized the need for computational pathology (CPATH) systems. CPATH…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-07 Neel Kanwal , Roger Amundsen , Helga Hardardottir , Luca Tomasetti , Erling Sandoy Undersrud , Emiel A. M. Janssen , Kjersti Engan

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…

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…

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

Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OCSCC) is the most common type of head and neck cancer. Due to the subtle nature of its early stages, deep and hidden areas of development, and slow growth, OCSCC often goes undetected, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Vishal Manikanden , Aniketh Bandlamudi , Daniel Haehn

This paper explores the problem of breast tissue classification of microscopy images. Based on the predominant cancer type the goal is to classify images into four categories of normal, benign, in situ carcinoma, and invasive carcinoma.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Kamyar Nazeri , Azad Aminpour , Mehran Ebrahimi

Prostate cancer is a commonly diagnosed cancerous disease among men world-wide. Even with modern technology such as multi-parametric magnetic resonance tomography and guided biopsies, the process for diagnosing prostate cancer remains time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 Malte Rippa , Ruben Schulze , Marian Himstedt , Felice Burn

Recent advances in machine learning are transforming medical image analysis, particularly in cancer detection and classification. Techniques such as deep learning, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Arezoo Borji , Gernot Kronreif , Bernhard Angermayr , Sepideh Hatamikia

Early detection of skin cancer, particularly melanoma, is crucial to enable advanced treatment. Due to the rapid growth in the numbers of skin cancers, there is a growing need of computerized analysis for skin lesions. The state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-31 Manu Goyal , Amanda Oakley , Priyanka Bansal , Darren Dancey , Moi Hoon Yap

Computer assisted diagnosis in digital pathology is becoming ubiquitous as it can provide more efficient and objective healthcare diagnostics. Recent advances have shown that the convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-05 Sruthi Krishna , Suganthi S. S , Shivsubramani Krishnamoorthy , Arnav Bhavsar

Melanoma is a leading cause of deaths due to skin cancer deaths and hence, early and effective diagnosis of melanoma is of interest. Current approaches for automated diagnosis of melanoma either use pattern recognition or analytical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Prathyusha Akundi , Soumyasis Gun , Jayanthi Sivaswamy