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In this paper, we studied extensively on different deep learning based methods to detect melanoma and skin lesion cancers. Melanoma, a form of malignant skin cancer is very threatening to health. Proper diagnosis of melanoma at an earlier…

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Melanoma is a dangerous form of skin cancer caused by the abnormal growth of skin cells. Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) approaches, including the U-Net architecture, can automatically segment skin lesions to aid diagnosis. The…

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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…

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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…

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Accurate segmentation of skin lesions in dermatoscopic images is crucial for the early diagnosis of skin cancer and improving the survival rate of patients. However, it is still a challenging task due to the irregularity of lesion areas,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Qisen Ma , Keming Mao , Gao Wang , Lisheng Xu , Yuhai Zhao

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

Skin lesions segmentation is an important step in the process of automated diagnosis of the skin melanoma. However, the accuracy of segmenting melanomas skin lesions is quite a challenging task due to less data for training, irregular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Sabari Nathan , Priya Kansal

Skin lesion segmentation is key for early skin cancer detection. Challenges in automatic segmentation from dermoscopic images include variations in color, texture, and artifacts of indistinct lesion boundaries. Deep learning methods like…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Chunyu Yuan , Dongfang Zhao , Sos S. Agaian

Accurate segmentation of skin lesions within dermoscopic images plays a crucial role in the timely identification of skin cancer for computer-aided diagnosis on mobile platforms. However, varying shapes of the lesions, lack of defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Hamza Farooq , Zuhair Zafar , Ahsan Saadat , Tariq M Khan , Shahzaib Iqbal , Imran Razzak

Melanoma is amongst most aggressive types of cancer. However, it is highly curable if detected in its early stages. Prescreening of suspicious moles and lesions for malignancy is of great importance. Detection can be done by images captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Mohammad H. Jafari , Ebrahim Nasr-Esfahani , Nader Karimi , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian

The computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems can highly improve the reliability and efficiency of melanoma recognition. As a crucial step of CAD, skin lesion segmentation has the unsatisfactory accuracy in existing methods due to large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Yujiao Tang , Feng Yang , Shaofeng Yuan , Chang'an Zhan

In this study, a multi-task deep neural network is proposed for skin lesion analysis. The proposed multi-task learning model solves different tasks (e.g., lesion segmentation and two independent binary lesion classifications) at the same…

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Tumor segmentation in PET-CT images is challenging due to the dual nature of the acquired information: low metabolic information in CT and low spatial resolution in PET. U-Net architecture is the most common and widely recognized approach…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Simone Bendazzoli , Mehdi Astaraki

Incorporating modern computer vision techniques into clinical protocols shows promise in improving skin lesion segmentation. The U-Net architecture has been a key model in this area, iteratively improved to address challenges arising from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Tariq M Khan , Dawn Lin , Shahzaib Iqbal , Erik Meijering

White matter hyperintensity (WMH) is commonly found in elder individuals and appears to be associated with brain diseases. U-net is a convolutional network that has been widely used for biomedical image segmentation. Recently, U-net has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Yue Zhang , Wanli Chen , Yifan Chen , Xiaoying Tang

This work is about the semantic segmentation of skin lesion boundary and their attributes using Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Nets. Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that can be cured if detected in time.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Cristian Lazo

Skin cancer is a life-threatening disease where early detection significantly improves patient outcomes. Automated diagnosis from dermoscopic images is challenging due to high intra-class variability and subtle inter-class differences. Many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Md. Enamul Atiq , Shaikh Anowarul Fattah

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

Melanoma, a malignant form of skin cancer is very threatening to life. Diagnosis of melanoma at an earlier stage is highly needed as it has a very high cure rate. Benign and malignant forms of skin cancer can be detected by analyzing the…

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