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The semantic segmentation of skin lesions is an important and common initial task in the computer aided diagnosis of dermoscopic images. Although deep learning-based approaches have considerably improved the segmentation accuracy, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Kumar Abhishek , Ghassan Hamarneh , Mark S. Drew

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

This paper summarizes our method and validation results for the ISIC Challenge 2018 - Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection - Task 1: Lesion Segmentation

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Hongming Xu , Tae Hyun Hwang

In computer-aided diagnosis tools employed for skin cancer treatment and early diagnosis, skin lesion segmentation is important. However, achieving precise segmentation is challenging due to inherent variations in appearance, contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Asim Naveed , Syed S. Naqvi , Tariq M. Khan , Shahzaib Iqbal , M. Yaqoob Wani , Haroon Ahmed Khan

Skin cancer detection is challenging since different types of skin lesions share high similarities. This paper proposes a computer-based deep learning approach that will accurately identify different kinds of skin lesions. Deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Mst Shapna Akter , Hossain Shahriar , Sweta Sneha , Alfredo Cuzzocrea

Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. While curable with early detection, only highly trained specialists are capable of accurately recognizing the disease. As expertise is in limited supply, automated systems capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Noel Codella , Quoc-Bao Nguyen , Sharath Pankanti , David Gutman , Brian Helba , Allan Halpern , John R. Smith

Skin lesion segmentation is an important step for automatic melanoma diagnosis. Due to the non-negligible diversity of lesions from different patients, extracting powerful context for fine-grained semantic segmentation is still challenging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Ruxin Wang , Shuyuan Chen , Chaojie Ji , Ye Li

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

Melanoma is clinically difficult to distinguish from common benign skin lesions, particularly melanocytic naevus and seborrhoeic keratosis. The dermoscopic appearance of these lesions has huge intra-class variations and high inter-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Manu Goyal , Moi Hoon Yap , Saeed Hassanpour

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

Encoder-decoder architectures are widely adopted for medical image segmentation tasks. With the lateral skip connection, the models can obtain and fuse both semantic and resolution information in deep layers to achieve more accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Dong Nie , Dinggang Shen

Melanoma is a sort of skin cancer that starts in the cells known as melanocytes. It is more dangerous than other types of skin cancer because it can spread to other organs. Melanoma can be fatal if it spreads to other parts of the body.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Md. Fahim Uddin , Nafisa Tafshir , Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan

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

We describe a new multiresolution "nested encoder-decoder" convolutional network architecture and use it to annotate morphological patterns in reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) images of human skin for aiding cancer diagnosis. Skin…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Alican Bozkurt , Kivanc Kose , Christi Alessi-Fox , Melissa Gill , Dana H. Brooks , Jennifer G. Dy , Milind Rajadhyaksha

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

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…

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

Image restoration, including image denoising, super resolution, inpainting, and so on, is a well-studied problem in computer vision and image processing, as well as a test bed for low-level image modeling algorithms. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Xiao-Jiao Mao , Chunhua Shen , Yu-Bin Yang

Segmenting biomarkers in medical images is crucial for various biotech applications. Despite advances, Transformer and CNN based methods often struggle with variations in staining and morphology, limiting feature extraction. In medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Saad Wazir , Daeyoung Kim

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