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Skin cancer is also one of the most common and dangerous types of cancer in the world that requires timely and precise diagnosis. In this paper, a deep-learning architecture of the multi-class skin lesion classification on the HAM10000…

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Automated skin lesion analysis is very crucial in clinical practice, as skin cancer is among the most common human malignancy. Existing approaches with deep learning have achieved remarkable performance on this challenging task, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Xueying Shi , Qi Dou , Cheng Xue , Jing Qin , Hao Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng

Melanoma is a malignant tumor that originates from skin cell lesions. Accurate and efficient segmentation of skin lesions is essential for quantitative analysis but remains a challenge due to blurred lesion boundaries, gradual color…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Saqib Qamar , Syed Furqan Qadri , Roobaea Alroobaea , Goram Mufarah M Alshmrani , Richard Jiang

Recent advances in automated skin cancer diagnosis have yielded performance on par with board-certified dermatologists. However, these approaches formulated skin cancer diagnosis as a simple classification task, dismissing the potential…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-06 Jingye Chen , Jieneng Chen , Zongwei Zhou , Bin Li , Alan Yuille , Yongyi Lu

Automated region of interest detection in histopathological image analysis is a challenging and important topic with tremendous potential impact on clinical practice. The deep-learning methods used in computational pathology may help us to…

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This work seeks to determine how modern machine learning techniques may be applied to the previously unexplored topic of melanoma diagnostics using digital pathology. We curated a new dataset of 50 patient cases of cutaneous melanoma using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Adon Phillips , Iris Teo , Jochen Lang

Over the last decades, the incidence of skin cancer, melanoma and non-melanoma, has increased at a continuous rate. In particular for melanoma, the deadliest type of skin cancer, early detection is important to increase patient prognosis.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-30 Breno Krohling , Pedro B. C. Castro , Andre G. C. Pacheco , Renato A. Krohling

Automatic skin lesion classification from dermoscopy images is important for the early diagnosis of skin diseases such as melanoma. Class imbalance in skin lesion datasets, notably the defects in the representation of malignant(cancerous)…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-19 Ariful Islam Khandaker , Abdullah Al Shafi , Mohiuddin Ahmad

Skin cancer is one of the deadliest diseases and has a high mortality rate if left untreated. The diagnosis generally starts with visual screening and is followed by a biopsy or histopathological examination. Early detection can aid in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Mahapara Khurshid , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

At present, cancer is one of the most important health issues in the world. Because early detection and appropriate treatment in cancer are very effective in the recovery and survival of patients, image processing as a diagnostic tool can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Reza Zare , Arash Pourkazemi

We describe our methods that achieved the 3rd and 4th places in tasks 1 and 2, respectively, at ISIC challenge 2019. The goal of this challenge is to provide the diagnostic for skin cancer using images and meta-data. There are nine classes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Andre G. C. Pacheco , Abder-Rahman Ali , Thomas Trappenberg

Skin diseases affect over a third of the global population, yet their impact is often underestimated. Automating skin disease classification to assist doctors with their prognosis might be difficult. Nevertheless, due to efficient feature…

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In this paper, a novel approach for automatic segmentation and classification of skin lesions is proposed. Initially, skin images are filtered to remove unwanted hairs and noise and then the segmentation process is carried out to extract…

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The aim of this work is to propose an ensemble of descriptors for Melanoma Classification, whose performance has been evaluated on validation and test datasets of the melanoma challenge 2018. The system proposed here achieves a strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Loris Nanni , Alessandra Lumini , Stefano Ghidoni

The incidence rate for skin cancer has been steadily increasing throughout the world, leading to it being a serious issue. Diagnosis at an early stage has the potential to drastically reduce the harm caused by the disease, however, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-27 Soham Bhosale

The potential of deep neural networks in skin lesion classification has already been demonstrated to be on-par if not superior to the dermatologists diagnosis. However, the performance of these models usually deteriorates when the test data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Sireesha Chamarthi , Katharina Fogelberg , Roman C. Maron , Titus J. Brinker , Julia Niebling

Melanoma detection is vital for early diagnosis and effective treatment. While deep learning models on dermoscopic images have shown promise, they require specialized equipment, limiting their use in broader clinical settings. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Volodymyr Sydorskyi , Igor Krashenyi , Oleksii Yakubenko

According to WHO[1], since the 1970s, diagnosis of melanoma skin cancer has been more frequent. However, if detected early, the 5-year survival rate for melanoma can increase to 99 percent. In this regard, skin lesion segmentation can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Pooya Mohammadi Kazaj , MohammadHossein Koosheshi , Ali Shahedi , Alireza Vafaei Sadr

Skin cancer is the most common malignancy in the world. Automated skin cancer detection would significantly improve early detection rates and prevent deaths. To help with this aim, a number of datasets have been released which can be used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Michael Luke Battle , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Andrew Stephen McGough

Skin diseases are among the most prevalent health concerns worldwide, yet conventional diagnostic methods are often costly, complex, and unavailable in low-resource settings. Automated classification using deep learning has emerged as a…

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