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Skin detection is the process of discriminating skin and non-skin regions in a digital image and it is widely used in several applications ranging from hand gesture analysis to track body parts and face detection. Skin detection is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Alessandra Lumini , Loris Nanni

Fully automatic detection of skin lesions in dermatoscopic images can facilitate early diagnosis and repression of malignant melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer. Although convolutional neural networks are a powerful solution, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Anindo Saha , Prem Prasad , Abdullah Thabit

Skin cancer is among the most common cancer types. Dermoscopic image analysis improves the diagnostic accuracy for detection of malignant melanoma and other pigmented skin lesions when compared to unaided visual inspection. Hence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Amirreza Mahbod , Gerald Schaefer , Chunliang Wang , Rupert Ecker , Georg Dorffner , Isabella Ellinger

Deep learning is the current bet for image classification. Its greed for huge amounts of annotated data limits its usage in medical imaging context. In this scenario transfer learning appears as a prominent solution. In this report we aim…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Afonso Menegola , Michel Fornaciali , Ramon Pires , Sandra Avila , Eduardo Valle

Melanoma is the most dangerous form of skin cancer, which is responsible for the majority of skin cancer-related deaths. Early diagnosis of melanoma can significantly reduce mortality rates and treatment costs. Therefore, skin cancer…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Shereen Afifi , Hamid GholamHosseini , Roopak Sinha

We examine progress in the use of AI for detecting skin lesions, with particular emphasis on the erythema migrans rash of acute Lyme disease, and other lesions, such as those from conditions like herpes zoster (shingles), tinea corporis,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 Philippe M. Burlina , William Paul , Phil A. Mathew , Neil J. Joshi , Alison W. Rebman , John N. Aucott

Skin cancer poses a significant public health challenge, necessitating efficient diagnostic tools. We introduce UCM-Net, a novel skin lesion segmentation model combining Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN).…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Chunyu Yuan , Dongfang Zhao , Sos S. Agaian

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a robust machine learning model that shows high accuracy with different classification problems, and is widely used for various embedded applications. However , implementation of embedded SVM classifiers is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Shereen Afifi , Hamid GholamHosseini , Roopak Sinha

Longitudinal tracking of skin lesions - finding correspondence, changes in morphology, and texture - is beneficial to the early detection of melanoma. However, it has not been well investigated in the context of full-body imaging. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Wei-Lun Huang , Davood Tashayyod , Jun Kang , Amir Gandjbakhche , Michael Kazhdan , Mehran Armand

Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. Automated skin lesion analysis plays an important role for early detection. Nowadays, the ISIC Archive and the Atlas of Dermoscopy dataset are the most employed skin lesion sources to benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Alceu Bissoto , Michel Fornaciali , Eduardo Valle , Sandra Avila

Rapid growth in the development of medical imaging analysis technology has been propelled by the great interest in improving computer-aided diagnosis and detection (CAD) systems for three popular image visualization tasks: classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Manu Goyal , Moi Hoon Yap , Saeed Hassanpour

Today, skin cancer is considered as one of the most dangerous and common cancers in the world which demands special attention. Skin cancer may be developed in different types; including melanoma, actinic keratosis, basal cell carcinoma,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Amir Faghihi , Mohammadreza Fathollahi , Roozbeh Rajabi

This abstract describes the segmentation system used to participate in the challenge ISIC 2017: Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection. Several preprocessing techniques have been tested for three color representations (RGB, YCbCr…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Juana M. Gutiérrez-Arriola , Marta Gómez-Álvarez , Victor Osma-Ruiz , Nicolás Sáenz-Lechón , Rubén Fraile

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

Malignant melanoma (MM) is one of the deadliest types of skin cancer. Analysing dermatoscopic images plays an important role in the early detection of MM and other pigmented skin lesions. Among different computer-based methods, deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Amirreza Mahbod , Philipp Tschandl , Georg Langs , Rupert Ecker , Isabella Ellinger

We introduce SLIMP (Skin Lesion Image-Metadata Pre-training) for learning rich representations of skin lesions through a novel nested contrastive learning approach that captures complex relationships between images and metadata. Melanoma…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Dionysis Christopoulos , Sotiris Spanos , Eirini Baltzi , Valsamis Ntouskos , Konstantinos Karantzalos

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

This study addresses critical gaps in automated lymphoma segmentation from PET/CT images, focusing on issues often overlooked in existing literature. While deep learning has been applied for lymphoma lesion segmentation, few studies…

Melanoma is the most lethal form of skin cancer, and early detection is critical for improving patient outcomes. Although dermoscopy combined with deep learning has advanced automated skin-lesion analysis, progress is hindered by limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Pei-Yu Lin , Yidan Shen , Neville Mathew , Renjie Hu , Siyu Huang , Courtney M. Queen , Cameron E. West , Ana Ciurea , George Zouridakis

Early detection of malignant skin lesions is critical for improving patient outcomes in aggressive, metastatic skin cancers. This study evaluates a comprehensive system for preliminary skin lesion assessment that combines the clinically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Ali Khreis , Ro'Yah Radaideh , Quinn McGill