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The determination of precise skin lesion boundaries in dermoscopic images using automated methods faces many challenges, most importantly, the presence of hair, inconspicuous lesion edges and low contrast in dermoscopic images, and…

Early detection and segmentation of skin lesions is crucial for timely diagnosis and treatment, necessary to improve the survival rate of patients. However, manual delineation is time consuming and subject to intra- and inter-observer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Sulaiman Vesal , Shreyas Malakarjun Patil , Nishant Ravikumar , Andreas Maier

Automatic segmentation of anatomical structures is critical in medical image analysis, aiding diagnostics and treatment planning. Skin segmentation plays a key role in registering and visualising multimodal imaging data. 3D skin…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Martina Paccini , Giuseppe Patanè

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 is a frequently occurring cancer in the human population, and it is very important to be able to diagnose malignant tumors in the body early. Lesion segmentation is crucial for monitoring the morphological changes of skin…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Changlu Guo , Jiangyan Dai , Marton Szemenyei , Yugen Yi

Histopathological image analysis is a reliable method for prostate cancer identification. In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of two approaches for segmenting glandular structures in prostate images to automate Gleason grading.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Feda Bolus Al Baqain , Omar Sultan Al-Kadi

Skin cancer, particularly melanoma, remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality, making early detection critical. AI-driven dermatology systems often rely on skin lesion segmentation as a preprocessing step to delineate the lesion from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Kuniko Paxton , Medina Kapo , Amila Akagić , Koorosh Aslansefat , Dhavalkumar Thakker , Yiannis Papadopoulos

The segmentation of satellite images is a necessary step to perform object-oriented image classification, which has become relevant due to its applicability on images with a high spatial resolution. To perform object-oriented image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-18 Wuilan Torres , Antonio Rueda-Toicen

This paper addresses the problem of automatically detecting human skin in images without reliance on color information. A primary motivation of the work has been to achieve results that are consistent across the full range of skin tones,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Han Xu , Abhijit Sarkar , A. Lynn Abbott

Skin lesion segmentation can be rather a challenging task owing to the presence of artifacts, low contrast between lesion and boundary, color variegation, fuzzy skin lesion borders and heterogeneous background in dermoscopy images. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-09 Zanobya N. Khan

Automated lesion segmentation of medical images has made tremendous improvements in recent years due to deep learning advancements. However, accurately capturing fine-grained global and regional feature representations remains a challenge.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Chuhan Wang , Zhenghao Chen , Jean Y. H. Yang , Jinman Kim

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Md Ashraful Alam Milton

Skin cancer, the most common human malignancy, is primarily diagnosed visually by physicians [1]. Classification with an automated method like CNN [2, 3] shows potential for challenging tasks [1]. By now, the deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Wenhao Zhang , Liangcai Gao , Runtao Liu

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Jin Qi , Miao Le , Chunming Li , Ping Zhou

Early detection of melanoma is difficult for the human eye but a crucial step towards reducing its death rate. Computerized detection of these melanoma and other skin lesions is necessary. The central research question in this paper is "How…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Beril Sirmacek , Max Kivits

Skin lesion segmentation is a critical task in computer-aided diagnosis systems for dermatological diseases. Accurate segmentation of skin lesions from medical images is essential for early detection, diagnosis, and treatment planning. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Viet-Thanh Nguyen , Van-Truong Pham , Thi-Thao Tran

Skin lesion segmentation is a vital task in skin cancer diagnosis and further treatment. Although deep learning based approaches have significantly improved the segmentation accuracy, these algorithms are still reliant on having a large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Kumar Abhishek , Ghassan Hamarneh

Skin Segmentation is widely used in biometric applications such as face detection, face recognition, face tracking, and hand gesture recognition. However, several challenges such as nonlinear illumination, equipment effects, personal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-23 Mohammad Reza Mahmoodi

Malignant melanoma has one of the most rapidly increasing incidences in the world and has a considerable mortality rate. Early diagnosis is particularly important since melanoma can be cured with prompt excision. Dermoscopy images play an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Lei Bi , Jinman Kim , Euijoon Ahn , Dagan Feng

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