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Skin lesion is a severe disease in world-wide extent. Early detection of melanoma in dermoscopy images significantly increases the survival rate. However, the accurate recognition of melanoma is extremely challenging due to the following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Yuexiang Li , Linlin Shen

Modern approaches for semantic segmention usually pay too much attention to the accuracy of the model, and therefore it is strongly recommended to introduce cumbersome backbones, which brings heavy computation burden and memory footprint.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Ling Luo , Dingyu Xue , Xinglong Feng , Yichun Yu , Peng Wang

The surge in developing deep learning models for diagnosing skin lesions through image analysis is notable, yet their clinical black faces challenges. Current dermatology AI models have limitations: limited number of possible diagnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Deval Mehta , Brigid Betz-Stablein , Toan D Nguyen , Yaniv Gal , Adrian Bowling , Martin Haskett , Maithili Sashindranath , Paul Bonnington , Victoria Mar , H Peter Soyer , Zongyuan Ge

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

Accurate estimation of the body surface area (BSA) involved by a rash, such as psoriasis, is critical for assessing rash severity, selecting an initial treatment regimen, and following clinical treatment response. Attempts at segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Duncan Stothers , Sophia Xu , Carlie Reeves , Lia Gracey

Artificial Intelligence (AI) models have demonstrated expert-level performance in melanoma detection, yet their clinical adoption is hindered by performance disparities across demographic subgroups such as gender, race, and age. Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Brandon Dominique , Prudence Lam , Nicholas Kurtansky , Jochen Weber , Kivanc Kose , Veronica Rotemberg , Jennifer Dy

This paper introduces a novel dataset to help researchers evaluate their computer vision and audio models for accuracy across a diverse set of age, genders, apparent skin tones and ambient lighting conditions. Our dataset is composed of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Caner Hazirbas , Joanna Bitton , Brian Dolhansky , Jacqueline Pan , Albert Gordo , Cristian Canton Ferrer

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

Automatic skin lesion classification from dermoscopy images is important for the early diagnosis of skin diseases such as melanoma. Class imbalance in skin lesion datasets, notably the defects in the representation of malignant(cancerous)…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-19 Ariful Islam Khandaker , Abdullah Al Shafi , Mohiuddin Ahmad

In recent years, learning-based color and tone enhancement methods for photos have become increasingly popular. However, most learning-based image enhancement methods just learn a mapping from one distribution to another based on one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Shiqi Gao , Huiyu Duan , Xinyue Li , Kang Fu , Yicong Peng , Qihang Xu , Yuanyuan Chang , Jia Wang , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

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

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

Skin lesion identification is a key step toward dermatological diagnosis. When describing a skin lesion, it is very important to note its body site distribution as many skin diseases commonly affect particular parts of the body. To exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Haofu Liao , Jiebo Luo

The incidence rate for skin cancer has been steadily increasing throughout the world, leading to it being a serious issue. Diagnosis at an early stage has the potential to drastically reduce the harm caused by the disease, however, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-27 Soham Bhosale

The initial assessment of skin lesions is typically based on dermoscopic images. As this is a difficult and time-consuming task, machine learning methods using dermoscopic images have been proposed to assist human experts. Other approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Nils Gessert , Marcel Bengs , Alexander Schlaefer

In this study, we investigate what a practically useful approach is in order to achieve robust skin disease diagnosis. A direct approach is to target the ground truth diagnosis labels, while an alternative approach instead focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Haofu Liao , Yuncheng Li , Jiebo Luo

Skin cancer detection still represents a major challenge in healthcare. Common detection methods can be lengthy and require human assistance which falls short in many countries. Previous research demonstrates how convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Carolin Flosdorf , Justin Engelker , Igor Keller , Nicolas Mohr

Skin detection is the process of discriminating skin and non-skin regions in a digital image and it is widely used in several applications ranging from hand gesture analysis to track body parts and face detection. Skin detection is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Alessandra Lumini , Loris Nanni

Skin cancer is one of the major types of cancers with an increasing incidence over the past decades. Accurately diagnosing skin lesions to discriminate between benign and malignant skin lesions is crucial to ensure appropriate patient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Amirreza Mahbod , Gerald Schaefer , Chunliang Wang , Rupert Ecker , Isabella Ellinger

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