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Skin cancer can be identified by dermoscopic examination and ocular inspection, but early detection significantly increases survival chances. Artificial intelligence (AI), using annotated skin images and Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Abdullah Al Shafi , Abdul Muntakim , Pintu Chandra Shill , Rowzatul Zannat , Abdullah Al-Amin

For diagnosing melanoma, hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained tissue slides remains the gold standard. These images contain quantitative information in different magnifications. In the present study, we investigated whether deep…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2019-04-15 Peizhen Xie , Ke Zuo , Yu Zhang , Fangfang Li , Mingzhu Yin , Kai Lu

Melanoma is a prevalent lethal type of cancer that is treatable if diagnosed at early stages of development. Skin lesions are a typical indicator for diagnosing melanoma but they often led to delayed diagnosis due to high similarities of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Ruitong Sun , Mohammad Rostami

This research presents a machine-learning approach for tumor detection in medical images using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The study focuses on preprocessing techniques to enhance image features relevant to tumor detection,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Ha Anh Vu

Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the existing world constituting one-third of the cancer cases. Benign skin cancers are not fatal, can be cured with proper medication. But it is not the same as the malignant skin cancers. In the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-21 Dusa Sai Charan , Hemanth Nadipineni , Subin Sahayam , Umarani Jayaraman

Deep learning techniques have proven high accuracy for identifying melanoma in digitised dermoscopic images. A strength is that these methods are not constrained by features that are pre-defined by human semantics. A down-side is that it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Kyle Young , Gareth Booth , Becks Simpson , Reuben Dutton , Sally Shrapnel

Skin cancer is a major public health problem, as is the most common type of cancer and represents more than half of cancer diagnoses worldwide. Early detection influences the outcome of the disease and motivates our work. We investigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Cristina Nader Vasconcelos , Bárbara Nader Vasconcelos

Melanoma is a life-threatening form of skin cancer when left undiagnosed at the early stages. Although there are more cases of non-melanoma cancer than melanoma cancer, melanoma cancer is more deadly. Early detection of melanoma is crucial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Shreshth Saini , Divij Gupta , Anil Kumar Tiwari

This article presents the design, experiments and results of our solution submitted to the 2018 ISIC challenge: Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection. We design a pipeline using state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Katherine M. Li , Evelyn C. Li

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

In this paper, the effectiveness and capability of convolutional neural networks have been studied in the classification of 8 skin diseases. Different pre-trained state-of-the-art architectures (DenseNet 201, ResNet 152, Inception v3,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Amirreza Rezvantalab , Habib Safigholi , Somayeh Karimijeshni

This study presents a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based approach for the multi-class classification of brain tumors using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. We utilize a publicly available dataset containing MRI images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-07 Natnael Alemayehu

Tissue characterization has long been an important component of Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems for automatic lesion detection and further clinical planning. Motivated by the superior performance of deep learning methods on various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Xiang Li , Aoxiao Zhong , Ming Lin , Ning Guo , Mu Sun , Arkadiusz Sitek , Jieping Ye , James Thrall , Quanzheng Li

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been recently used for a variety of histology image analysis. However, availability of a large dataset is a major prerequisite for training a CNN which limits its use by the computational pathology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Ruqayya Awan , Navid Alemi Koohbanani , Muhammad Shaban , Anna Lisowska , Nasir Rajpoot

Pigmented skin lesions represent localized areas of increased melanin and can indicate serious conditions like melanoma, a major contributor to skin cancer mortality. The MedMNIST v2 dataset, inspired by MNIST, was recently introduced to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Nerma Kadric , Amila Akagic , Medina Kapo

Cancerous skin lesions are one of the most common malignancies detected in humans, and if not detected at an early stage, they can lead to death. Therefore, it is crucial to have access to accurate results early on to optimize the chances…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Daniel Alonso Villanueva Nunez , Yongmin Li

This study focuses on automatic skin cancer detection using a Meta-learning approach for dermoscopic images. The aim of this study is to explore the benefits of the generalization of the knowledge extracted from non-medical data in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Sara I. Garcia

Convolutional Neural Networks have shown promising effectiveness in identifying different types of cancer from radiographs. However, the opaque nature of CNNs makes it difficult to fully understand the way they operate, limiting their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Michael Okonoda , Eder Martinez , Abhilekha Dalal , Lior Shamir

Melanoma is one of the ten most common cancers in the US. Early detection is crucial for survival, but often the cancer is diagnosed in the fatal stage. Deep learning has the potential to improve cancer detection rates, but its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Devansh Bisla , Anna Choromanska , Jennifer A. Stein , David Polsky , Russell Berman

Early detection is crucial for successful cancer treatment and increasing survivability rates, particularly in the most common forms. Ten different cancers have been identified in most of these advances that effectively use CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hossein Molaeian , Kaveh Karamjani , Sina Teimouri , Saeed Roshani , Sobhan Roshani