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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

Data augmentation can effectively resolve a scarcity of images when training machine-learning algorithms. It can make them more robust to unseen images. We present a lesion conditional Generative Adversarial Network LcGAN to generate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Manohar Karki , Junghwan Cho , Seokhwan Ko

Technology aided platforms provide reliable tools in almost every field these days. These tools being supported by computational power are significant for applications that need sensitive and precise data analysis. One such important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Muhammad Ali Farooq , Muhammad Aatif Mobeen Azhar , Rana Hammad Raza

Automated skin lesion segmentation and classification are two most essential and related tasks in the computer-aided diagnosis of skin cancer. Despite their prevalence, deep learning models are usually designed for only one task, ignoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Yutong Xie , Jianpeng Zhang , Yong Xia , Chunhua Shen

Deep learning-based approaches achieve state-of-the-art performance in the majority of image segmentation benchmarks. However, training of such models requires a sizable amount of manual annotations. In order to reduce this effort, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh , Tassilo Klein , Kayhan Batmanghelich , Moin Nabi

Early detection of melanoma has grown to be essential because it significantly improves survival rates, but automated analysis of skin lesions still remains challenging. ABCDE, which stands for Asymmetry, Border irregularity, Color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Harsha Kotla , Arun Kumar Rajasekaran , Hannah Rana

The rising incidence of skin cancer, coupled with limited public awareness and a shortfall in clinical expertise, underscores an urgent need for advanced diagnostic aids. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a promising tool in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Hamideh Khaleghpour , Brett McKinney

Segmentation of magnetic resonance (MR) images is a fundamental step in many medical imaging-based applications. The recent implementation of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in image processing has been shown to have significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Fang Liu

Skin cancer classification remains a challenging problem due to high inter-class similarity, intra-class variability, and image noise in dermoscopic images. To address these issues, we propose an improved ResNet-50 model enhanced with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Runhao Liu , Ziming Chen , Peng Zhang

Semantic segmentation is an important preliminary step towards automatic medical image interpretation. Recently deep convolutional neural networks have become the first choice for the task of pixel-wise class prediction. While incorporating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Zahra Mirikharaji , Ghassan Hamarneh

Mass segmentation provides effective morphological features which are important for mass diagnosis. In this work, we propose a novel end-to-end network for mammographic mass segmentation which employs a fully convolutional network (FCN) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Wentao Zhu , Xiang Xiang , Trac D. Tran , Gregory D. Hager , Xiaohui Xie

Fundus image segmentation on unseen domains is challenging, especially for the over-parameterized deep models trained on the small medical datasets. To address this challenge, we propose a method named Adaptive Feature-fusion Neural Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Jiyuan Zhong , Hu Ke , Ming Yan

This article describes the design, implementation, and results of the latest installment of the dermoscopic image analysis benchmark challenge. The goal is to support research and development of algorithms for automated diagnosis of…

Current AI-assisted skin image diagnosis has achieved dermatologist-level performance in classifying skin cancer, driven by rapid advancements in deep learning architectures. However, unlike traditional vision tasks, skin images in general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Xin Hu , Janet Wang , Jihun Hamm , Rie R Yotsu , Zhengming Ding

Skin cancer is the most common cancer worldwide, with melanoma being the deadliest form. Dermoscopy is a skin imaging modality that has shown an improvement in the diagnosis of skin cancer compared to visual examination without support. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Josef Steppan , Sten Hanke

Cutaneous malignancies demand early detection for favorable outcomes, yet current diagnostics suffer from inter-observer variability and access disparities. While AI shows promise, existing dermatological systems are limited by homogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Sher Khan , Raz Muhammad , Adil Hussain , Muhammad Sajjad , Muhammad Rashid

While Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have recently found applications in image editing, most previous GAN-based image editing methods require largescale datasets with semantic segmentation annotations for training, only provide high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yuhan Cao , Haoran Jiang , Zhenghong Yu , Qi Li , Xuyang Li

We propose a novel deep learning model for classifying medical images in the setting where there is a large amount of unlabelled medical data available, but labelled data is in limited supply. We consider the specific case of classifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Antonia Creswell , Alison Pouplin , Anil A Bharath

Automated skin lesion classification using deep learning has shown remarkable accuracy, yet clinical adoption remains limited due to the "black box" nature of these models. We present MelanomaNet, an explainable deep learning system for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Sukhrobbek Ilyosbekov

This paper proposes a novel image segmentation approachthat integrates fully convolutional networks (FCNs) with a level setmodel. Compared with a FCN, the integrated method can incorporatesmoothing and prior information to achieve an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Min Tang , Sepehr Valipour , Zichen Vincent Zhang , Dana Cobzas , MartinJagersand