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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

Skin cancer is the most common human malignancy(American Cancer Society) which is primarily diagnosed visually, starting with an initial clinical screening and followed potentially by dermoscopic(related to skin) analysis, a biopsy and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Kartikeya Agarwal , Tismeet Singh

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

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

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 lesions are conditions that appear on a patient due to many different reasons. One of these can be because of an abnormal growth in skin tissue, defined as cancer. This disease plagues more than 14.1 million patients and had been the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Danilo Barros Mendes , Nilton Correia da Silva

Fully automatic detection of skin lesions in dermatoscopic images can facilitate early diagnosis and repression of malignant melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer. Although convolutional neural networks are a powerful solution, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Anindo Saha , Prem Prasad , Abdullah Thabit

This study focuses on analyzing dermoscopy images to determine the depth of melanomas, which is a critical factor in diagnosing and treating skin cancer. The Breslow depth, measured from the top of the granular layer to the deepest point of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Miguel Nogales , Begoña Acha , Fernando Alarcón , José Pereyra , Carmen Serrano

Skin cancer is by far in top-3 of the world's most common cancer. Among different skin cancer types, melanoma is particularly dangerous because of its ability to metastasize. Early detection is the key to success in skin cancer treatment.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Duyen N. T. Le , Hieu X. Le , Lua T. Ngo , Hoan T. Ngo

This chapter presents a methodology for diagnosis of pigmented skin lesions using convolutional neural networks. The architecture is based on convolu-tional neural networks and it is evaluated using new CNN models as well as re-trained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-02 Prasitthichai Naronglerdrit , Iosif Mporas

In this paper we present the methods of our submission to the ISIC 2018 challenge for skin lesion diagnosis (Task 3). The dataset consists of 10000 images with seven image-level classes to be distinguished by an automated algorithm. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Nils Gessert , Thilo Sentker , Frederic Madesta , Rüdiger Schmitz , Helge Kniep , Ivo Baltruschat , René Werner , Alexander Schlaefer

In this study, a multi-task deep neural network is proposed for skin lesion analysis. The proposed multi-task learning model solves different tasks (e.g., lesion segmentation and two independent binary lesion classifications) at the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Xulei Yang , Zeng Zeng , Si Yong Yeo , Colin Tan , Hong Liang Tey , Yi Su

State-of-the-art deep learning approaches for skin lesion recognition often require pretraining on larger and more varied datasets, to overcome the generalization limitations derived from the reduced size of the skin lesion imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Kirill Sirotkin , Marcos Escudero-Viñolo , Pablo Carballeira , Juan Carlos SanMiguel

We present a deep learning approach to the ISIC 2017 Skin Lesion Classification Challenge using a multi-scale convolutional neural network. Our approach utilizes an Inception-v3 network pre-trained on the ImageNet dataset, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Terrance DeVries , Dhanesh Ramachandram

Melanoma is the most severe type of skin cancer due to its ability to cause metastasis. It is more common in black people, often affecting acral regions: palms, soles, and nails. Deep neural networks have shown tremendous potential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Luana Barros , Levy Chaves , Sandra Avila

Melanoma represents a critical health risk due to its aggressive progression and high mortality, underscoring the need for early, interpretable diagnostic tools. While deep learning has advanced in skin lesion classification, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Ciro Listone , Aniello Murano

Skin cancer, a major form of cancer, is a critical public health problem with 123,000 newly diagnosed melanoma cases and between 2 and 3 million non-melanoma cases worldwide each year. The leading cause of skin cancer is high exposure of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-28 Saket S. Chaturvedi , Kajol Gupta , Prakash. S. Prasad

Deep Learning has shown outstanding results in computer vision tasks; healthcare is no exception. However, there is no straightforward way to expose the decision-making process of DL models. Good accuracy is not enough for skin cancer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Rosa Y. G. Paccotacya-Yanque , Alceu Bissoto , Sandra Avila

Segmenting skin lesions from dermoscopic images is essential for diagnosing skin cancer. But the automatic segmentation of these lesions is complicated due to the poor contrast between the background and the lesion, image artifacts, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-08 G Jignesh Chowdary , G V S N Durga Yathisha , Suganya G , Premalatha M

In this article, we describe the design and implementation of a publicly accessible dermatology image analysis benchmark challenge. The goal of the challenge is to sup- port research and development of algorithms for automated diagnosis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-05 David Gutman , Noel C. F. Codella , Emre Celebi , Brian Helba , Michael Marchetti , Nabin Mishra , Allan Halpern