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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

This article presents a Deep CNN, based on the DenseNet architecture jointly with a highly discriminating learning methodology, in order to classify seven kinds of skin lesions: Melanoma, Melanocytic nevus, Basal cell carcinoma, Actinic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Pierluigi Carcagnì , Andrea Cuna , Cosimo Distante

Skin lesion datasets consist predominantly of normal samples with only a small percentage of abnormal ones, giving rise to the class imbalance problem. Also, skin lesion images are largely similar in overall appearance owing to the low…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-29 Hasib Zunair , A. Ben Hamza

State-of-the-art deep learning approaches for skin lesion recognition often require pretraining on larger and more varied datasets, to overcome the generalization limitations derived from the reduced size of the skin lesion imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Kirill Sirotkin , Marcos Escudero-Viñolo , Pablo Carballeira , Juan Carlos SanMiguel

Automatic skin lesion classification from dermoscopy images is important for the early diagnosis of skin diseases such as melanoma. Class imbalance in skin lesion datasets, notably the defects in the representation of malignant(cancerous)…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-19 Ariful Islam Khandaker , Abdullah Al Shafi , Mohiuddin Ahmad

The presence of certain clinical dermoscopic features within a skin lesion may indicate melanoma, and automatically detecting these features may lead to more quantitative and reproducible diagnoses. We reformulate the task of classifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Jeremy Kawahara , Ghassan Hamarneh

We consider machine-learning-based malignancy prediction and lesion identification from clinical dermatological images, which can be indistinctly acquired via smartphone or dermoscopy capture. Additionally, we do not assume that images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Meng Xia , Meenal K. Kheterpal , Samantha C. Wong , Christine Park , William Ratliff , Lawrence Carin , Ricardo Henao

As skin cancer is one of the most frequent cancers globally, accurate, non-invasive dermoscopy-based diagnosis becomes essential and promising. A task of the Part 3 of the ISIC Skin Image Analysis Challenge at MICCAI 2018 is to predict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Yeong Chan Lee , Sang-Hyuk Jung , Hong-Hee Won

The surge in developing deep learning models for diagnosing skin lesions through image analysis is notable, yet their clinical black faces challenges. Current dermatology AI models have limitations: limited number of possible diagnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Deval Mehta , Brigid Betz-Stablein , Toan D Nguyen , Yaniv Gal , Adrian Bowling , Martin Haskett , Maithili Sashindranath , Paul Bonnington , Victoria Mar , H Peter Soyer , Zongyuan Ge

This short paper reports the algorithms we used and the evaluation performances for ISIC Challenge 2018. Our team participates in all the tasks in this challenge. In lesion segmentation task, the pyramid scene parsing network (PSPNet) is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Jinyi Zou , Xiao Ma , Cheng Zhong , Yao Zhang

Wound classification is an essential step of wound diagnosis. An efficient classifier can assist wound specialists in classifying wound types with less financial and time costs and help them decide an optimal treatment procedure. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 D. M. Anisuzzaman , Yash Patel , Behrouz Rostami , Jeffrey Niezgoda , Sandeep Gopalakrishnan , Zeyun Yu

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

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

Objective: This work addresses two key problems of skin lesion classification. The first problem is the effective use of high-resolution images with pretrained standard architectures for image classification. The second problem is the high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Nils Gessert , Thilo Sentker , Frederic Madesta , Rüdiger Schmitz , Helge Kniep , Ivo Baltruschat , René Werner , Alexander Schlaefer

The skin, as the largest organ of the human body, is vulnerable to a diverse array of conditions collectively known as skin lesions, which encompass various dermatoses. Diagnosing these lesions presents significant challenges for medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Sauda Adiv Hanum , Ashim Dey , Muhammad Ashad Kabir

Skin conditions are reported the 4th leading cause of nonfatal disease burden worldwide. However, given the colossal spectrum of skin disorders defined clinically and shortage in dermatology expertise, diagnosing skin conditions in a timely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Junyan Wu , Hao Jiang , Xiaowei Ding , Anudeep Konda , Jin Han , Yang Zhang , Qian Li

Recent advancements in skin lesion classification models have significantly improved accuracy, with some models even surpassing dermatologists' diagnostic performance. However, in medical practice, distrust in AI models remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Kuniko Paxton , Koorosh Aslansefat , Amila Akagić , Dhavalkumar Thakker , Yiannis Papadopoulos

Automatic detection of liver lesions in CT images poses a great challenge for researchers. In this work we present a deep learning approach that models explicitly the variability within the non-lesion class, based on prior knowledge of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Maayan Frid-Adar , Idit Diamant , Eyal Klang , Michal Amitai , Jacob Goldberger , Hayit Greenspan

We present a method for skin lesion segmentation for the ISIC 2017 Skin Lesion Segmentation Challenge. Our approach is based on a Fully Convolutional Network architecture which is trained end to end, from scratch, on a limited dataset. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Dhanesh Ramachandram , Terrance DeVries

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