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This study addresses critical gaps in automated lymphoma segmentation from PET/CT images, focusing on issues often overlooked in existing literature. While deep learning has been applied for lymphoma lesion segmentation, few studies…

Recently, a growing interest has been seen in deep learning-based semantic segmentation. UNet, which is one of deep learning networks with an encoder-decoder architecture, is widely used in medical image segmentation. Combining multi-scale…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Huimin Huang , Lanfen Lin , Ruofeng Tong , Hongjie Hu , Qiaowei Zhang , Yutaro Iwamoto , Xianhua Han , Yen-Wei Chen , Jian Wu

The rising global prevalence of skin conditions, some of which can escalate to life-threatening stages if not timely diagnosed and treated, presents a significant healthcare challenge. This issue is particularly acute in remote areas where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Mahapara Khurshid , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

Accurate skin-lesion segmentation remains a key technical challenge for computer-aided diagnosis of skin cancer. Convolutional neural networks, while effective, are constrained by limited receptive fields and thus struggle to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Pengyang Yu , Haoquan Wang , Gerard Marks , Tahar Kechadi , Laurence T. Yang , Sahraoui Dhelim , Nyothiri Aung

Image segmentation and classification are the two main fundamental steps in pattern recognition. To perform medical image segmentation or classification with deep learning models, it requires training on large image dataset with annotation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Anandhanarayanan Kamalakannan , Shiva Shankar Ganesan , Govindaraj Rajamanickam

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

In this study, we implemented a two-stage deep learning-based approach to segment lesions in PET/CT images for the AutoPET III challenge. The first stage utilized a DynUNet model for coarse segmentation, identifying broad regions of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Reza Safdari , Mohammad Koohi-Moghaddam , Kyongtae Tyler Bae

Despite recent progress on semantic segmentation, there still exist huge challenges in medical ultra-resolution image segmentation. The methods based on multi-branch structure can make a good balance between computational burdens and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Tong Wu , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu , Bicheng Dai , Shuxin Chen

Skin lesions are an increasingly significant medical concern, varying widely in severity from benign to cancerous. Accurate diagnosis is essential for ensuring timely and appropriate treatment. This study examines the implementation of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Xiaoyi Liu , Zhou Yu , Lianghao Tan , Yafeng Yan , Ge Shi

In this paper, we proposed using a hybrid method that utilises deep convolutional and recurrent neural networks for accurate delineation of skin lesion of images supplied with ISBI 2017 lesion segmentation challenge. The proposed method was…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-02 M. Attia , M. Hossny , S. Nahavandi , A. Yazdabadi

In this paper we present the methods of our submission to the ISIC 2018 challenge for skin lesion diagnosis (Task 3). The dataset consists of 10000 images with seven image-level classes to be distinguished by an automated algorithm. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Nils Gessert , Thilo Sentker , Frederic Madesta , Rüdiger Schmitz , Helge Kniep , Ivo Baltruschat , René Werner , Alexander Schlaefer

Melanoma is caused by the abnormal growth of melanocytes in human skin. Like other cancers, this life-threatening skin cancer can be treated with early diagnosis. To support a diagnosis by automatic skin lesion segmentation, several Fully…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Reza Azad , Maral Zarvani , Dorit Merhof

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

Skin lesion segmentation plays a crucial role in the computer-aided diagnosis of melanoma. Deep Learning models have shown promise in accurately segmenting skin lesions, but their widespread adoption in real-life clinical settings is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-01 Shankara Narayanan , Sikha OK , Raul Benitez

Automatic lesion segmentation in dermoscopy images is an essential step for computer-aided diagnosis of melanoma. The dermoscopy images exhibits rotational and reflectional symmetry, however, this geometric property has not been encoded in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Xiaomeng Li , Lequan Yu , Chi-Wing Fu , Pheng-Ann Heng

Segmenting skin lesions from dermoscopic images is essential for diagnosing skin cancer. But the automatic segmentation of these lesions is complicated due to the poor contrast between the background and the lesion, image artifacts, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-08 G Jignesh Chowdary , G V S N Durga Yathisha , Suganya G , Premalatha M

According to WHO[1], since the 1970s, diagnosis of melanoma skin cancer has been more frequent. However, if detected early, the 5-year survival rate for melanoma can increase to 99 percent. In this regard, skin lesion segmentation can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Pooya Mohammadi Kazaj , MohammadHossein Koosheshi , Ali Shahedi , Alireza Vafaei Sadr

Incorporating modern computer vision techniques into clinical protocols shows promise in improving skin lesion segmentation. The U-Net architecture has been a key model in this area, iteratively improved to address challenges arising from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Tariq M Khan , Dawn Lin , Shahzaib Iqbal , Erik Meijering

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

Skin cancer is among the most common cancer types. Dermoscopic image analysis improves the diagnostic accuracy for detection of malignant melanoma and other pigmented skin lesions when compared to unaided visual inspection. Hence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Amirreza Mahbod , Gerald Schaefer , Chunliang Wang , Rupert Ecker , Georg Dorffner , Isabella Ellinger