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Skin cancer detection is challenging since different types of skin lesions share high similarities. This paper proposes a computer-based deep learning approach that will accurately identify different kinds of skin lesions. Deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Mst Shapna Akter , Hossain Shahriar , Sweta Sneha , Alfredo Cuzzocrea

We consider machine-learning-based malignancy prediction and lesion identification from clinical dermatological images, which can be indistinctly acquired via smartphone or dermoscopy capture. Additionally, we do not assume that images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Meng Xia , Meenal K. Kheterpal , Samantha C. Wong , Christine Park , William Ratliff , Lawrence Carin , Ricardo Henao

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

Multi-phase computed tomography (CT) scans use contrast agents to highlight different anatomical structures within the body to improve the probability of identifying and detecting anatomical structures of interest and abnormalities such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Abdullah F. Al-Battal , Soan T. M. Duong , Van Ha Tang , Quang Duc Tran , Steven Q. H. Truong , Chien Phan , Truong Q. Nguyen , Cheolhong An

In this report, we are presenting our automated prediction system for disease classification within dermoscopic images. The proposed solution is based on deep learning, where we employed transfer learning strategy on VGG16 and GoogLeNet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Tomáš Majtner , Buda Bajić , Sule Yildirim , Jon Yngve Hardeberg , Joakim Lindblad , Nataša Sladoje

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer with the most rapidly increasing incidence. Early detection of melanoma using dermoscopy images significantly increases patients' survival rate. However, accurately classifying skin lesions by eye,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Xiaoxiao Li , Junyan Wu , Eric Z. Chen , Hongda Jiang

Image segmentation and classification are the two main fundamental steps in pattern recognition. To perform medical image segmentation or classification with deep learning models, it requires training on large image dataset with annotation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Anandhanarayanan Kamalakannan , Shiva Shankar Ganesan , Govindaraj Rajamanickam

Lesion segmentation is the first step in most automatic melanoma recognition systems. Deficiencies and difficulties in dermoscopic images such as color inconstancy, hair occlusion, dark corners and color charts make lesion segmentation an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Mostafa Jahanifar , Neda Zamani Tajeddin , Babak Mohammadzadeh Asl , Ali Gooya

This paper provides the required description of the methods used to obtain submitted results for Task1 and Task 3 of ISIC 2018: Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection. The results have been created by a team of researchers at the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-19 Russell C. Hardie , Redha Ali , Manawaduge Supun De Silva , Temesguen Messay Kebede

We proposed a two stage framework with only one network to analyze skin lesion images, we firstly trained a convolutional network to classify these images, and cropped the import regions which the network has the maximum activation value.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Xi Jia , Linlin Shen

This manuscript describes our participation in the International Skin Imaging Collaboration's 2017 Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection competition. We participated in Part 3: Lesion Classification. The two stated goals of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Dennis H. Murphree , Che Ngufor

Skin cancer is a major public health problem, with over 5 million newly diagnosed cases in the United States each year. Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer, responsible for over 9,000 deaths each year. In this paper, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Balazs Harangi

In this work we discuss the known algorithms for linear colour segmentation based on a physical approach and propose a new modification of segmentation algorithm. This algorithm is based on a region adjacency graph framework without a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Anna Smagina , Valentina Bozhkova , Sergey Gladilin , Dmitry Nikolaev

Skin lesions are classified in benign or malignant. Among the malignant, melanoma is a very aggressive cancer and the major cause of deaths. So, early diagnosis of skin cancer is very desired. In the last few years, there is a growing…

Today Bayesian networks are more used in many areas of decision support and image processing. In this way, our proposed approach uses Bayesian Network to modelize the segmented image quality. This quality is calculated on a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-23 Mohamed Ali Mahjoub , Mohamed Mhiri

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

Accurate skin disease classification is a critical yet challenging task due to high inter-class similarity, intra-class variability, and complex lesion textures. While deep learning-based computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Enam Ahmed Taufik , Abdullah Khondoker , Antara Firoz Parsa , Seraj Al Mahmud Mostafa

In this paper, we present a novel automated method for White Matter (WM) lesion segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patient images. Our approach is based on a cascade of two 3D patch-wise convolutional neural networks (CNN). The first…

Ultrasound (US) is one of the most commonly used imaging modalities in both diagnosis and surgical interventions due to its low-cost, safety, and non-invasive characteristic. US image segmentation is currently a unique challenge because of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Bahareh Behboodi , Mina Amiri , Rupert Brooks , Hassan Rivaz

Technology aided platforms provide reliable tools in almost every field these days. These tools being supported by computational power are significant for applications that need sensitive and precise data analysis. One such important…

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