English
Related papers

Related papers: A Dense CNN approach for skin lesion classificatio…

200 papers

Melanoma is a life-threatening form of skin cancer when left undiagnosed at the early stages. Although there are more cases of non-melanoma cancer than melanoma cancer, melanoma cancer is more deadly. Early detection of melanoma is crucial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Shreshth Saini , Divij Gupta , Anil Kumar Tiwari

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

Pigmented skin lesions represent localized areas of increased melanin and can indicate serious conditions like melanoma, a major contributor to skin cancer mortality. The MedMNIST v2 dataset, inspired by MNIST, was recently introduced to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Nerma Kadric , Amila Akagic , Medina Kapo

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Xulei Yang , Zeng Zeng , Si Yong Yeo , Colin Tan , Hong Liang Tey , Yi Su

Skin cancer can be life-threatening if not diagnosed early, a prevalent yet preventable disease. Globally, skin cancer is perceived among the finest prevailing cancers and millions of people are diagnosed each year. For the allotment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Mohammad Tahmid Noor , B. M. Shahria Alam , Tasmiah Rahman Orpa , Shaila Afroz Anika , Mahjabin Tasnim Samiha , Fahad Ahammed

This short report describes our submission to the ISIC 2018 Challenge in Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection for Task1 and Task 3. This work has been accomplished by a team of researchers at the University of Dayton Signal and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-19 Redha Ali , Russell C. Hardie , Manawaduge Supun De Silva , Temesguen Messay Kebede

The color of skin lesions is an important diagnostic feature for identifying malignant melanoma and other skin diseases. Typical colors associated with melanocytic lesions include tan, brown, black, red, white, and blue gray. This study…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-30 M. A. Rasel , Sameem Abdul Kareem , Unaizah Obaidellah

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

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved great success in skin lesion classification. A balanced dataset is required to train a good model. However, due to the appearance of different skin lesions in practice, severe or even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Keyu Chen , Di Zhuang , J. Morris Chang

In this study, we investigate what a practically useful approach is in order to achieve robust skin disease diagnosis. A direct approach is to target the ground truth diagnosis labels, while an alternative approach instead focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Haofu Liao , Yuncheng Li , Jiebo Luo

This short paper reports the method and the evaluation results of Casio and Shinshu University joint team for the ISBI Challenge 2017 - Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection - Part 3: Lesion Classification hosted by ISIC. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Kazuhisa Matsunaga , Akira Hamada , Akane Minagawa , Hiroshi Koga

Lesion diagnosis of skin lesions is a very challenging task due to high inter-class similarities and intra-class variations in terms of color, size, site and appearance among different skin lesions. With the emergence of computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Manu Goyal , Jiahua Ng , Moi Hoon Yap

Melanoma skin cancer is one of the most dangerous and life-threatening cancer. Exposure to ultraviolet rays may damage the skin cell's DNA, which causes melanoma skin cancer. However, it is difficult to detect and classify melanoma and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 N. I. Md. Ashafuddula , Rafiqul Islam

Early detection of skin cancer relies on precise segmentation of dermoscopic images of skin lesions. However, this task is challenging due to the irregular shape of the lesion, the lack of sharp borders, and the presence of artefacts such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Shahzaib Iqbal , Muhammad Zeeshan , Mehwish Mehmood , Tariq M. Khan , Imran Razzak

This paper summarizes our method and validation results for the ISIC Challenge 2018 - Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection - Task 1: Lesion Segmentation

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Hongming Xu , Tae Hyun Hwang

This work summarizes our submission for the Task 3: Disease Classification of ISIC 2018 challenge in Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection. We use a novel deep neural network (DNN) ensemble architecture introduced by us that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Manik Goyal , Jagath C. Rajapakse

Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer. Specifically, melanoma is the cause of 75% of skin cancer deaths, although it is the least common skin cancer. Better detection of melanoma could have a positive impact on millions of people.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Chengdong Yao

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 cancer detection still represents a major challenge in healthcare. Common detection methods can be lengthy and require human assistance which falls short in many countries. Previous research demonstrates how convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Carolin Flosdorf , Justin Engelker , Igor Keller , Nicolas Mohr

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