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Within medical imaging, manual curation of sufficient well-labeled samples is cost, time and scale-prohibitive. To improve the representativeness of the training dataset, for the first time, we present an approach to utilize large amounts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Fernando Navarro , Sailesh Conjeti , Federico Tombari , Nassir Navab

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

This work is about the semantic segmentation of skin lesion boundary and their attributes using Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Nets. Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that can be cured if detected in time.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Cristian Lazo

This paper describes the participation of Araguaia Medical Vision Lab at the International Skin Imaging Collaboration 2017 Skin Lesion Challenge. We describe the use of deep convolutional neural networks in attempt to classify images of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Rafael Teixeira Sousa , Larissa Vasconcellos de Moraes

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

Acute and chronic wounds are a challenge to healthcare systems around the world and affect many people's lives annually. Wound classification is a key step in wound diagnosis that would help clinicians to identify an optimal treatment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Behrouz Rostami , D. M. Anisuzzaman , Chuanbo Wang , Sandeep Gopalakrishnan , Jeffrey Niezgoda , Zeyun Yu

Lesion segmentation from the surrounding skin is the first task for developing automatic Computer-Aided Diagnosis of skin cancer. Variant features of lesion like uneven distribution of color, irregular shape, border and texture make this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Md. Kamrul Hasan , Basel Alyafi , Fakrul Islam Tushar

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer with the most rapidly increasing incidence. Early detection of melanoma using dermoscopy images significantly increases patients' survival rate. However, accurately classifying skin lesions by eye,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Xiaoxiao Li , Junyan Wu , Eric Z. Chen , Hongda Jiang

In this paper, a novel approach for automatic segmentation and classification of skin lesions is proposed. Initially, skin images are filtered to remove unwanted hairs and noise and then the segmentation process is carried out to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Sumithra R , Mahamad Suhil , D. S. Guru

Skin conditions are reported the 4th leading cause of nonfatal disease burden worldwide. However, given the colossal spectrum of skin disorders defined clinically and shortage in dermatology expertise, diagnosing skin conditions in a timely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Junyan Wu , Hao Jiang , Xiaowei Ding , Anudeep Konda , Jin Han , Yang Zhang , Qian Li

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) accounts for about 75% of skin cancers. The adoption of teledermatology protocols in Spanish public hospitals has increased dermatologists' workload, motivating the development of AI tools for lesion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Iván Matas , Carmen Serrano , Francisca Silva , Amalia Serrano , Tomás Toledo-Pastrana , Begoña Acha

We present our winning solution to the SIIM-ISIC Melanoma Classification Challenge. It is an ensemble of convolutions neural network (CNN) models with different backbones and input sizes, most of which are image-only models while a few of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Qishen Ha , Bo Liu , Fuxu Liu

Malignant melanoma (MM) is one of the deadliest types of skin cancer. Analysing dermatoscopic images plays an important role in the early detection of MM and other pigmented skin lesions. Among different computer-based methods, deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Amirreza Mahbod , Philipp Tschandl , Georg Langs , Rupert Ecker , Isabella Ellinger

Deep Learning has emerged as a promising approach for skin lesion analysis. However, existing methods mostly rely on fully supervised learning, requiring extensive labeled data, which is challenging and costly to obtain. To alleviate this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Siyamalan Manivannan

Deep learning models show remarkable results in automated skin lesion analysis. However, these models demand considerable amounts of data, while the availability of annotated skin lesion images is often limited. Data augmentation can expand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Fábio Perez , Cristina Vasconcelos , Sandra Avila , Eduardo Valle

Data-driven models are now deployed in a plethora of real-world applications - including automated diagnosis - but models learned from data risk learning biases from that same data. When models learn spurious correlations not found in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Alceu Bissoto , Eduardo Valle , Sandra Avila

Our team participate in the challenge of Task 1: Lesion Boundary Segmentation , and use a combined network, one of which is designed by ourselves named updcnn net and another is an improved VGG 16-layer net. Updcnn net uses reduced size…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Hongdiao Wen , Rongjian Xu , Tie Zhang

In this report, we are presenting our automated prediction system for disease classification within dermoscopic images. The proposed solution is based on deep learning, where we employed transfer learning strategy on VGG16 and GoogLeNet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Tomáš Majtner , Buda Bajić , Sule Yildirim , Jon Yngve Hardeberg , Joakim Lindblad , Nataša Sladoje

Recent advancements in skin lesion classification models have significantly improved accuracy, with some models even surpassing dermatologists' diagnostic performance. However, in medical practice, distrust in AI models remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Kuniko Paxton , Koorosh Aslansefat , Amila Akagić , Dhavalkumar Thakker , Yiannis Papadopoulos

Around the globe, ticks are the culprit of transmitting a variety of bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases. The incidence of tick-borne diseases has drastically increased within the last decade, with annual cases of Lyme disease soaring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Lauren Michelle Pfeifer , Matias Valdenegro-Toro