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The identification of melanoma involves an integrated analysis of skin lesion images acquired using the clinical and dermoscopy modalities. Dermoscopic images provide a detailed view of the subsurface visual structures that supplement the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Xiaohang Fu , Lei Bi , Ashnil Kumar , Michael Fulham , Jinman Kim

A major prerequisite for the application of machine learning models in clinical decision making is trust and interpretability. Current explainability studies in the neuroimaging community have mostly focused on explaining individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Fabian Eitel , Anna Melkonyan , Kerstin Ritter

Visualizing the features captured by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is one of the conventional approaches to interpret the predictions made by these models in numerous image recognition applications. Grad-CAM is a popular solution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Sam Sattarzadeh , Mahesh Sudhakar , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Jongseong Jang , Yeonjeong Jeong , Hyunwoo Kim

This study explores the integration of multiple Explainable AI (XAI) techniques to enhance the interpretability of deep learning models for brain tumour detection. A custom Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) was developed and trained on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Patrick McGonagle , William Farrelly , Kevin Curran

Convolutional Neural Networks have demonstrated human-level performance in the classification of melanoma and other skin lesions, but evident performance disparities between differing skin tones should be addressed before widespread…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Peter J. Bevan , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

Deep learning has demonstrated expert-level performance in melanoma classification, positioning it as a powerful tool in clinical dermatology. However, model opacity and the lack of interpretability remain critical barriers to clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Junwen Zheng , Xinran Xu , Li Rong Wang , Chang Cai , Lucinda Siyun Tan , Dingyuan Wang , Hong Liang Tey , Xiuyi Fan

Detection of brain tumor using a segmentation based approach is critical in cases, where survival of a subject depends on an accurate and timely clinical diagnosis. Gliomas are the most commonly found tumors having irregular shape and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Saddam Hussain , Syed Muhammad Anwar , Muhammad Majid

Our goal is to bridge human and machine intelligence in melanoma detection. We develop a classification system exploiting a combination of visual pre-processing, deep learning, and ensembling for providing explanations to experts and to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Ellák Somfai , Benjámin Baffy , Kristian Fenech , Changlu Guo , Rita Hosszú , Dorina Korózs , Fabrizio Nunnari , Marcell Pólik , Daniel Sonntag , Attila Ulbert , András Lőrincz

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have emerged as a new paradigm for Mammogram diagnosis. Contemporary CNN-based computer-aided-diagnosis (CAD) for breast cancer directly extract latent features from input mammogram image and ignore…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Heyi Li , Dongdong Chen , William H. Nailon , Mike E. Davies , David Laurenson

This paper proposes a high-precision semantic segmentation method based on an improved TransUNet architecture to address the challenges of complex lesion structures, blurred boundaries, and significant scale variations in skin lesion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Xin Wang , Xiaopei Zhang , Xingang Wang

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

In this study, we present an interpretable deep learning framework for the early detection of breast cancer using quantitative features extracted from digitized fine needle aspirate (FNA) images of breast masses. Our deep neural network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Bishal Chhetri , B. V. Rathish Kumar

We present Smooth Grad-CAM++, a technique which combines two recent techniques: SMOOTHGRAD and Grad-CAM++. Smooth Grad-CAM++ has the capability of either visualizing a layer, subset of feature maps, or subset of neurons within a feature map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Daniel Omeiza

Interpreting the decision-making process of deep convolutional neural networks remains a central challenge in achieving trustworthy and transparent artificial intelligence. Explainable AI (XAI) techniques, particularly Class Activation Map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Hajar Dekdegue , Moncef Garouani , Josiane Mothe , Jordan Bernigaud

Accurate diagnostics of a skin lesion is a critical task in classification dermoscopic images. In this research, we form a new type of image features, called hybrid features, which has stronger discrimination ability than single method…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Redha Ali , Hussin K. Ragb

Medical imaging plays a vital role in modern diagnostics; however, interpreting high-resolution radiological data remains time-consuming and susceptible to variability among clinicians. Traditional image processing techniques often lack the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Melika Filvantorkaman , Maral Filvan Torkaman

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

Understanding how cities visually differ from each others is interesting for planners, residents, and historians. We investigate the interpretation of deep features learned by convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for city recognition. Given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Xiangwei Shi , Seyran Khademi , Jan van Gemert

The prevalence of skin melanoma is rapidly increasing as well as the recorded death cases of its patients. Automatic image segmentation tools play an important role in providing standardized computer-assisted analysis for skin melanoma…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Ahmed H. Shahin , Karim Amer , Mustafa A. Elattar

Skin cancer is the most common cancer type. Usually, patients with suspicion of cancer are treated by doctors without any aided visual inspection. At this point, dermoscopy has become a suitable tool to support physicians in their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yongli Mou , Sascha Welten , Yeliz Ucer Yediel , Toralf Kirsten , Oya Deniz Beyan