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This abstract describes the segmentation system used to participate in the challenge ISIC 2017: Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection. Several preprocessing techniques have been tested for three color representations (RGB, YCbCr…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Juana M. Gutiérrez-Arriola , Marta Gómez-Álvarez , Victor Osma-Ruiz , Nicolás Sáenz-Lechón , Rubén Fraile

This report describes our submission to the ISIC 2017 Challenge in Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection. We have participated in the Part 3: Lesion Classification with a system for automatic diagnosis of nevus, melanoma and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Iván González Díaz

This paper summarizes the method used in our submission to Task 1 of the International Skin Imaging Collaboration's (ISIC) Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection challenge held in 2018. We used a fully automated method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Joshua Peter Ebenezer , Jagath C. Rajapakse

Many automatic skin lesion diagnosis systems use segmentation as a preprocessing step to diagnose skin conditions because skin lesion shape, border irregularity, and size can influence the likelihood of malignancy. This paper presents,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Bill S. Lin , Kevin Michael , Shivam Kalra , H. R. Tizhoosh

Skin cancer is a life-threatening disease where early detection significantly improves patient outcomes. Automated diagnosis from dermoscopic images is challenging due to high intra-class variability and subtle inter-class differences. Many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Md. Enamul Atiq , Shaikh Anowarul Fattah

Melanoma, a dangerous type of skin cancer resulting from abnormal skin cell growth, can be treated if detected early. Various approaches using Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) have been proposed, with the U-Net architecture being…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-23 Sania Eskandari , Janet Lumpp , Luis Sanchez Giraldo

With a large influx of dermoscopy images and a growing shortage of dermatologists, automatic dermoscopic image analysis plays an essential role in skin cancer diagnosis. In this paper, a new deep fully convolutional neural network (FCNN) is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Jin Qi , Miao Le , Chunming Li , Ping Zhou

Dermoscopy image detection stays a tough task due to the weak distinguishable property of the object.Although the deep convolution neural network signifigantly boosted the performance on prevelance computer vision tasks in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Hongdiao Wen

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

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

Automatic melanoma segmentation in dermoscopic images is essential in computer-aided diagnosis of skin cancer. Existing methods may suffer from the hole and shrink problems with limited segmentation performance. To tackle these issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Xiaoqing Guo , Zhen Chen , Yixuan Yuan

In this paper we approach the problem of skin lesion segmentation using a convolutional neural network based on the U-Net architecture. We present a set of training strategies that had a significant impact on the performance of this model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Fred Guth , Teofilo E. deCampos

Skin lesion segmentation is a critical task in computer-aided diagnosis systems for dermatological diseases. Accurate segmentation of skin lesions from medical images is essential for early detection, diagnosis, and treatment planning. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Viet-Thanh Nguyen , Van-Truong Pham , Thi-Thao Tran

Melanoma is a dangerous form of skin cancer caused by the abnormal growth of skin cells. Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) approaches, including the U-Net architecture, can automatically segment skin lesions to aid diagnosis. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Sania Eskandari , Janet Lumpp

Melanoma is amongst most aggressive types of cancer. However, it is highly curable if detected in its early stages. Prescreening of suspicious moles and lesions for malignancy is of great importance. Detection can be done by images captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Mohammad H. Jafari , Ebrahim Nasr-Esfahani , Nader Karimi , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian

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

Incorporating modern computer vision techniques into clinical protocols shows promise in improving skin lesion segmentation. The U-Net architecture has been a key model in this area, iteratively improved to address challenges arising from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Tariq M Khan , Dawn Lin , Shahzaib Iqbal , Erik Meijering

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

Early detection of melanoma is difficult for the human eye but a crucial step towards reducing its death rate. Computerized detection of these melanoma and other skin lesions is necessary. The central research question in this paper is "How…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Beril Sirmacek , Max Kivits

In the field of healthcare, precise skin lesion segmentation is crucial for the early detection and accurate diagnosis of skin diseases. Despite significant advances in deep learning for image processing, existing methods have yet to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Siyu Wang , Hua Wang , Huiyu Li , Fan Zhang