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Melanoma is one of the ten most common cancers in the US. Early detection is crucial for survival, but often the cancer is diagnosed in the fatal stage. Deep learning has the potential to improve cancer detection rates, but its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Devansh Bisla , Anna Choromanska , Jennifer A. Stein , David Polsky , Russell Berman

Melanoma is one of the most serious skin cancers that can occur in any part of the human skin. Early diagnosis of melanoma lesions will significantly increase their chances of being cured. Improving melanoma segmentation will help doctors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Mohamad Taghizadeh , Karim Mohammadi

Early and accurate melanoma detection is crucial for improving patient outcomes. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence AI have shown promise in this area, but the technologys effectiveness across diverse skin tones remains a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Laura N Montoya , Jennafer Shae Roberts , Belen Sanchez Hidalgo

Melanoma is a prevalent lethal type of cancer that is treatable if diagnosed at early stages of development. Skin lesions are a typical indicator for diagnosing melanoma but they often led to delayed diagnosis due to high similarities of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Ruitong Sun , Mohammad Rostami

Automatic skin lesion segmentation on dermoscopic images is an essential step in computer-aided diagnosis of melanoma. However, this task is challenging due to significant variations of lesion appearances across different patients. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Yading Yuan , Yeh-Chi Lo

Melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer, and early detection can significantly increase survival rates and prevent cancer spread. However, developing reliable automated detection techniques is difficult due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 SangHyuk Kim , Edward Gaibor , Daniel Haehn

Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. Computer systems can assist in melanoma detection, but are not widespread in clinical practice. In 2016, an open challenge in classification of dermoscopic images of skin lesions was announced.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-06 Kajsa Møllersen , Maciel Zortea , Thomas R. Schopf , Herbert Kirchesch , Fred Godtliebsen

Early detection of melanoma is difficult for the human eye but a crucial step towards reducing its death rate. Computerized detection of these melanoma and other skin lesions is necessary. The central research question in this paper is "How…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Beril Sirmacek , Max Kivits

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

Deep learning implemented with convolutional network architectures can exceed specialists' diagnostic accuracy. However, whole-image deep learning trained on a given dataset may not generalize to other datasets. The problem arises because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Norsang Lama , R. Joe Stanley , Anand Nambisan , Akanksha Maurya , Jason Hagerty , William V. Stoecker

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

As one kind of skin cancer, melanoma is very dangerous. Dermoscopy based early detection and recarbonization strategy is critical for melanoma therapy. However, well-trained dermatologists dominant the diagnostic accuracy. In order to solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Hao Chang

With a large influx of dermoscopy images and a growing shortage of dermatologists, automatic dermoscopic image analysis plays an essential role in skin cancer diagnosis. In this paper, a new deep fully convolutional neural network (FCNN) is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Jin Qi , Miao Le , Chunming Li , Ping Zhou

AI-based dermatology adoption remains limited by biased datasets, variable image quality, and limited validation. We introduce DermAI, a lightweight, smartphone-based application that enables real-time capture, annotation, and…

Malignant melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer and, in recent years, is rapidly growing in terms of the incidence worldwide rate. The most effective approach to targeted treatment is early diagnosis. Deep learning algorithms,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-21 Mario Manzo , Simone Pellino

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, necessitating advancements in early detection and treatment technologies. In this paper, we present a novel and highly efficient melanoma detection framework that synergistically combines the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Peng Zhang , Divya Chaudhary

This report summarises our method and validation results for the ISIC Challenge 2018 - Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection - Task 1: Lesion Segmentation. We present a two-stage method for lesion segmentation with optimised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Chengyao Qian , Ting Liu , Hao Jiang , Zhe Wang , Pengfei Wang , Mingxin Guan , Biao Sun

Skin cancer, a major form of cancer, is a critical public health problem with 123,000 newly diagnosed melanoma cases and between 2 and 3 million non-melanoma cases worldwide each year. The leading cause of skin cancer is high exposure of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-28 Saket S. Chaturvedi , Kajol Gupta , Prakash. S. Prasad

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

Automatic segmentation of skin lesion is considered a crucial step in Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) for melanoma diagnosis. Despite its significance, skin lesion segmentation remains a challenging task due to their diverse color, texture,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-27 Md. Kamrul Hasan , Lavsen Dahal , Prasad N. Samarakoon , Fakrul Islam Tushar , Robert Marti Marly