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In this paper, we describe our method for the ISIC 2019 Skin Lesion Classification Challenge. The challenge comes with two tasks. For task 1, skin lesions have to be classified based on dermoscopic images. For task 2, dermoscopic images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Nils Gessert , Maximilian Nielsen , Mohsin Shaikh , René Werner , Alexander Schlaefer

This paper reveals a data bias issue that can severely affect the performance while conducting a machine learning model for malicious URL detection. We describe how such bias can be identified using interpretable machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 YunDa Tsai , Cayon Liow , Yin Sheng Siang , Shou-De Lin

Deep learning has played a major role in the interpretation of dermoscopic images for detecting skin defects and abnormalities. However, current deep learning solutions for dermatological lesion analysis are typically limited in providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Gun-Hee Lee , Han-Bin Ko , Seong-Whan Lee

Deep learning implemented with convolutional network architectures can exceed specialists' diagnostic accuracy. However, whole-image deep learning trained on a given dataset may not generalize to other datasets. The problem arises because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Norsang Lama , R. Joe Stanley , Anand Nambisan , Akanksha Maurya , Jason Hagerty , William V. Stoecker

Deep neural networks have demonstrated promising performance on image recognition tasks. However, they may heavily rely on confounding factors, using irrelevant artifacts or bias within the dataset as the cue to improve performance. When a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Siyuan Yan , Zhen Yu , Xuelin Zhang , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Shekhar S. Chandra , Monika Janda , Peter Soyer , Zongyuan Ge

Reliably detecting diseases using relevant biological information is crucial for real-world applicability of deep learning techniques in medical imaging. We debias deep learning models during training against unknown bias - without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Simon Langer , Oliver Taubmann , Felix Denzinger , Andreas Maier , Alexander Mühlberg

A key issue in critical contexts such as medical diagnosis is the interpretability of the deep learning models adopted in decision-making systems. Research in eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is trying to solve this issue. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Carlo Metta , Andrea Beretta , Riccardo Guidotti , Yuan Yin , Patrick Gallinari , Salvatore Rinzivillo , Fosca Giannotti

Neural networks are prone to be biased towards spurious correlations between classes and latent attributes exhibited in a major portion of training data, which ruins their generalization capability. We propose a new method for training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Nayeong Kim , Sehyun Hwang , Sungsoo Ahn , Jaesik Park , Suha Kwak

We propose a novel deep learning model for classifying medical images in the setting where there is a large amount of unlabelled medical data available, but labelled data is in limited supply. We consider the specific case of classifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Antonia Creswell , Alison Pouplin , Anil A Bharath

The skin, as the largest organ of the human body, is vulnerable to a diverse array of conditions collectively known as skin lesions, which encompass various dermatoses. Diagnosing these lesions presents significant challenges for medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Sauda Adiv Hanum , Ashim Dey , Muhammad Ashad Kabir

Deep Neural Networks are well known for efficiently fitting training data, yet experiencing poor generalization capabilities whenever some kind of bias dominates over the actual task labels, resulting in models learning "shortcuts". In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Pietro Morerio , Ruggero Ragonesi , Vittorio Murino

Automated skin lesion classification using deep learning has shown remarkable accuracy, yet clinical adoption remains limited due to the "black box" nature of these models. We present MelanomaNet, an explainable deep learning system for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Sukhrobbek Ilyosbekov

Spurious correlations in training data significantly hinder the generalization capability of machine learning models when faced with distribution shifts, leading to the proposition of numberous debiasing methods. However, it remains to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Peng Kuang , Zhibo Wang , Zhixuan Chu , Jingyi Wang , Kui Ren

In practice, many medical datasets have an underlying taxonomy defined over the disease label space. However, existing classification algorithms for medical diagnoses often assume semantically independent labels. In this study, we aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Zhen Yu , Toan Nguyen , Yaniv Gal , Lie Ju , Shekhar S. Chandra , Lei Zhang , Paul Bonnington , Victoria Mar , Zhiyong Wang , Zongyuan Ge

Skin lesion analysis models are biased by artifacts placed during image acquisition, which influence model predictions despite carrying no clinical information. Solutions that address this problem by regularizing models to prevent learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Alceu Bissoto , Catarina Barata , Eduardo Valle , Sandra Avila

New medical datasets are now more open to the public, allowing for better and more extensive research. Although prepared with the utmost care, new datasets might still be a source of spurious correlations that affect the learning process.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Agnieszka Mikołajczyk , Sylwia Majchrowska , Sandra Carrasco Limeros

Deep learning models are known to often learn features that spuriously correlate with the class label during training but are irrelevant to the prediction task. Existing methods typically address this issue by annotating potential spurious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Weiwei Li , Junzhuo Liu , Yuanyuan Ren , Yuchen Zheng , Yahao Liu , Wen Li

Skin cancer detection is challenging since different types of skin lesions share high similarities. This paper proposes a computer-based deep learning approach that will accurately identify different kinds of skin lesions. Deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Mst Shapna Akter , Hossain Shahriar , Sweta Sneha , Alfredo Cuzzocrea

Skin cancer is the most common cancer worldwide, with melanoma being the deadliest form. Dermoscopy is a skin imaging modality that has shown an improvement in the diagnosis of skin cancer compared to visual examination without support. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Josef Steppan , Sten Hanke

in healthcare. However, the existing AI model may be biased in its decision marking. The bias induced by data itself, such as collecting data in subgroups only, can be mitigated by including more diversified data. Distributed and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Di Fan , Yifan Wu , Xiaoxiao Li