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Melanoma is considered to be the deadliest variant of skin cancer causing around 75\% of total skin cancer deaths. To diagnose Melanoma, clinicians assess and compare multiple skin lesions of the same patient concurrently to gather…

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Medical image segmentation, particularly in multi-domain scenarios, requires precise preservation of anatomical structures across diverse representations. While deep learning has advanced this field, existing models often struggle with…

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Skin cancer is a widespread, global, and potentially deadly disease, which over the last three decades has afflicted more lives in the USA than all other forms of cancer combined. There have been a lot of promising recent works utilizing…

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Skin lesion segmentation is of great significance for skin lesion analysis and subsequent treatment. It is still a challenging task due to the irregular and fuzzy lesion borders, and diversity of skin lesions. In this paper, we propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Guoqing Liu , Yu Guo , Caiying Wu , Guoqing Chen , Barintag Saheya , Qiyu Jin

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

Deep learning techniques have shown their superior performance in dermatologist clinical inspection. Nevertheless, melanoma diagnosis is still a challenging task due to the difficulty of incorporating the useful dermatologist clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-03 Xiaohong Wang , Xudong Jiang , Henghui Ding , Yuqian Zhao , Jun Liu

Automatic skin lesion segmentation methods based on fully convolutional networks (FCNs) are regarded as the state-of-the-art for accuracy. When there are, however, insufficient training data to cover all the variations in skin lesions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Lei Bi , Michael Fulham , Jinman Kim

Automated segmentation of multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions using multicontrast magnetic resonance (MR) images improves efficiency and reproducibility compared to manual delineation, with deep learning (DL) methods achieving state-of-the-art…

Automatic lesion analysis is critical in skin cancer diagnosis and ensures effective treatment. The computer aided diagnosis of such skin cancer in dermoscopic images can significantly reduce the clinicians workload and help improve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Shubham Innani , Prasad Dutande , Bhakti Baheti , Ujjwal Baid , Sanjay Talbar

Computer-aided diagnosis systems for classification of different type of skin lesions have been an active field of research in recent decades. It has been shown that introducing lesions and their attributes masks into lesion classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Mostafa Jahanifar , Neda Zamani Tajeddin , Navid Alemi Koohbanani , Ali Gooya , Nasir Rajpoot

Recently, some pioneering works have preferred applying more complex modules to improve segmentation performances. However, it is not friendly for actual clinical environments due to limited computing resources. To address this challenge,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Jiacheng Ruan , Suncheng Xiang , Mingye Xie , Ting Liu , Yuzhuo Fu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance in skin lesion analysis. Compared with single CNN classifier, combining the results of multiple classifiers via fusion approaches shows to be more effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Di Zhuang , Keyu Chen , J. Morris Chang

Accurate segmentation of skin lesion from dermoscopic images is a crucial part of computer-aided diagnosis of melanoma. It is challenging due to the fact that dermoscopic images from different patients have non-negligible lesion variation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Xiaohong Wang , Xudong Jiang , Henghui Ding , Jun Liu

Automated segmentation of the vertebral column in Computed Tomography (CT) scans is a prerequisite for pathological assessment and surgical planning. However, state-of-the-art methods, particularly those based on Transformers or large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 K S Nithurshen , Saurabh J. Shigwan

Skin lesion segmentation is a crucial step in dermatology for guiding clinical decision-making. However, existing methods for accurate, robust, and resource-efficient lesion analysis have limitations, including low performance and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Linxuan Fan , Juntao Jiang , Weixuan Liu , Zhucun Xue , Jiajun Lv , Jiangning Zhang , Yong Liu

Accurate and automated lesion segmentation in Positron Emission Tomography / Computed Tomography (PET/CT) imaging is essential for cancer diagnosis and therapy planning. This paper presents a Swin Transformer UNet 3D (SwinUNet3D) framework…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Shovini Guha , Dwaipayan Nandi

Skin lesion segmentation is a critical challenge in computer vision, and it is essential to separate pathological features from healthy skin for diagnostics accurately. Traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are limited by narrow…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Muyi Bao , Shuchang Lyu , Zhaoyang Xu , Qi Zhao , Changyu Zeng , Wenpei Bai , Guangliang Cheng

Automatic multiple sclerosis (MS) lesion segmentation using multi-contrast magnetic resonance (MR) images provides improved efficiency and reproducibility compared to manual delineation. Current state-of-the-art automatic MS lesion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Jinwei Zhang , Lianrui Zuo , Blake E. Dewey , Samuel W. Remedios , Dzung L. Pham , Aaron Carass , Jerry L. Prince

Segmentation of white matter lesions and deep grey matter structures is an important task in the quantification of magnetic resonance imaging in multiple sclerosis. In this paper we explore segmentation solutions based on convolutional…

The UNet model consists of fully convolutional network (FCN) layers arranged as contracting encoder and upsampling decoder maps. Nested arrangements of these encoder and decoder maps give rise to extensions of the UNet model, such as UNete…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-11 Yilong Yang , Srinandan Dasmahapatra , Sasan Mahmoodi