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Skin lesion segmentation is a vital task in skin cancer diagnosis and further treatment. Although deep learning based approaches have significantly improved the segmentation accuracy, these algorithms are still reliant on having a large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Kumar Abhishek , Ghassan Hamarneh

Skin lesion segmentation is an important step for automatic melanoma diagnosis. Due to the non-negligible diversity of lesions from different patients, extracting powerful context for fine-grained semantic segmentation is still challenging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Ruxin Wang , Shuyuan Chen , Chaojie Ji , Ye Li

Background: Dermoscopy is one of the major imaging modalities used in the diagnosis of melanoma and other pigmented skin lesions. Due to the difficulty and subjectivity of human interpretation, automated analysis of dermoscopy images has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-09-08 M. Emre Celebi , Hitoshi Iyatomi , Gerald Schaefer , William V. Stoecker

Advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning have great potential to redefine how skin lesions are detected, mapped, tracked and documented. Here, We propose a 3D whole-body imaging system known as 3DSkin-mapper to enable automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Chuong Nguyen , Lachlan Tychsen-Smith , Ashley Stacey , Shenghong Li , Joseph Pathikulangara , Lars Petersson , Dadong Wang

Recently, there has been great interest in developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled computer-aided diagnostics solutions for the diagnosis of skin cancer. With the increasing incidence of skin cancers, low awareness among a growing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Manu Goyal , Thomas Knackstedt , Shaofeng Yan , Saeed Hassanpour

Weakly supervised medical image segmentation (MIS) using generative models is crucial for clinical diagnosis. However, the accuracy of the segmentation results is often limited by insufficient supervision and the complex nature of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Zhihao Shuai , Yinan Chen , Shunqiang Mao , Yihan Zho , Xiaohong Zhang

The rising incidence of skin cancer, coupled with limited public awareness and a shortfall in clinical expertise, underscores an urgent need for advanced diagnostic aids. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a promising tool in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Hamideh Khaleghpour , Brett McKinney

Skin lesion segmentation is of great significance for skin lesion analysis and subsequent treatment. It is still a challenging task due to the irregular and fuzzy lesion borders, and diversity of skin lesions. In this paper, we propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Guoqing Liu , Yu Guo , Caiying Wu , Guoqing Chen , Barintag Saheya , Qiyu Jin

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

Automatic melanoma segmentation is essential for early skin cancer detection, yet challenges arise from the heterogeneity of melanoma, as well as interfering factors like blurred boundaries, low contrast, and imaging artifacts. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Zhuoyi Fang , Jiajia Liu , Kexuan Shi , Qiang Han

Raster-scan optoacoustic mesoscopy (RSOM) is a powerful, non-invasive optical imaging technique for functional, anatomical, and molecular skin and tissue analysis. However, both the manual and the automated analysis of such images are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Stefan Gerl , Johannes C. Paetzold , Hailong He , Ivan Ezhov , Suprosanna Shit , Florian Kofler , Amirhossein Bayat , Giles Tetteh , Vasilis Ntziachristos , Bjoern Menze

Skin lesion segmentation can be rather a challenging task owing to the presence of artifacts, low contrast between lesion and boundary, color variegation, fuzzy skin lesion borders and heterogeneous background in dermoscopy images. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-09 Zanobya N. Khan

Skin cancer can be identified by dermoscopic examination and ocular inspection, but early detection significantly increases survival chances. Artificial intelligence (AI), using annotated skin images and Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Abdullah Al Shafi , Abdul Muntakim , Pintu Chandra Shill , Rowzatul Zannat , Abdullah Al-Amin

For several skin conditions such as vitiligo, accurate segmentation of lesions from skin images is the primary measure of disease progression and severity. Existing methods for vitiligo lesion segmentation require manual intervention.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-19 Makena Low , Priyanka Raina

Image segmentation plays an essential role in medicine for both diagnostic and interventional tasks. Segmentation approaches are either manual, semi-automated or fully-automated. Manual segmentation offers full control over the quality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Tomas Sakinis , Fausto Milletari , Holger Roth , Panagiotis Korfiatis , Petro Kostandy , Kenneth Philbrick , Zeynettin Akkus , Ziyue Xu , Daguang Xu , Bradley J. Erickson

The main objective of this project is to segment different breast ultrasound images to find out lesion area by discarding the low contrast regions as well as the inherent speckle noise. The proposed method consists of three stages (removing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Ibrahim Sadek , Mohamed Elawady , Viktor Stefanovski

The task of automatically segmenting 3-D surfaces representing boundaries of objects is important for quantitative analysis of volumetric images, and plays a vital role in biomedical image analysis. Recently, graph-based methods with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Abhay Shah , Michael Abramoff , Xiaodong Wu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits a capability to segment a wide array of objects in natural images, serving as a versatile perceptual tool for various downstream image segmentation tasks. In contrast, medical image segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yizhe Zhang , Tao Zhou , Shuo Wang , Ye Wu , Pengfei Gu , Danny Z. Chen

Tissue segmentation is a routine preprocessing step to reduce the computational cost of whole slide image (WSI) analysis by excluding background regions. Traditional image processing techniques are commonly used for tissue segmentation, but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Ruben T. Lucassen , Willeke A. M. Blokx , Mitko Veta