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Accurate segmentation of skin lesions within dermoscopic images plays a crucial role in the timely identification of skin cancer for computer-aided diagnosis on mobile platforms. However, varying shapes of the lesions, lack of defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Hamza Farooq , Zuhair Zafar , Ahsan Saadat , Tariq M Khan , Shahzaib Iqbal , Imran Razzak

This work summarizes our submission for the Task 3: Disease Classification of ISIC 2018 challenge in Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection. We use a novel deep neural network (DNN) ensemble architecture introduced by us that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Manik Goyal , Jagath C. Rajapakse

Existing studies for automated melanoma diagnosis are based on single-time point images of lesions. However, melanocytic lesions de facto are progressively evolving and, moreover, benign lesions can progress into malignant melanoma.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Zhen Yu , Jennifer Nguyen , Xiaojun Chang , John Kelly , Catriona Mclean , Lei Zhang , Victoria Mar , Zongyuan Ge

Recent advances in deep learning and on-device inference could transform routine screening for skin cancers. Along with the anticipated benefits of this technology, potential dangers arise from unforeseen and inherent biases. A significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ko Watanabe , Stanislav Frolov , Aya Hassan , David Dembinsky , Adriano Lucieri , Andreas Dengel

Skin cancer, particularly melanoma, remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality, making early detection critical. AI-driven dermatology systems often rely on skin lesion segmentation as a preprocessing step to delineate the lesion from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Kuniko Paxton , Medina Kapo , Amila Akagić , Koorosh Aslansefat , Dhavalkumar Thakker , Yiannis Papadopoulos

Deep Learning models have achieved remarkable success. Training them is often accelerated by building on top of pre-trained models which poses the risk of perpetuating encoded biases. Here, we investigate biases in the representations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Valerie Krug , Sebastian Stober

The accurate detection of lesion attributes is meaningful for both the computeraid diagnosis system and dermatologists decisions. However, unlike lesion segmentation and melenoma classification, there are few deep learning methods and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Xinzi He , Baiying Lei , Tianfu Wang

Despite the growing availability of high-quality public datasets, the lack of training samples is still one of the main challenges of deep-learning for skin lesion analysis. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) appear as an enticing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Alceu Bissoto , Eduardo Valle , Sandra Avila

It is widely recognized that deep neural networks are sensitive to bias in the data. This means that during training these models are likely to learn spurious correlations between data and labels, resulting in limited generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Vito Paolo Pastore , Massimiliano Ciranni , Davide Marinelli , Francesca Odone , Vittorio Murino

Rapid growth in the development of medical imaging analysis technology has been propelled by the great interest in improving computer-aided diagnosis and detection (CAD) systems for three popular image visualization tasks: classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Manu Goyal , Moi Hoon Yap , Saeed Hassanpour

The presence of certain clinical dermoscopic features within a skin lesion may indicate melanoma, and automatically detecting these features may lead to more quantitative and reproducible diagnoses. We reformulate the task of classifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Jeremy Kawahara , Ghassan Hamarneh

Skin cancer is the most common malignancy in the world. Automated skin cancer detection would significantly improve early detection rates and prevent deaths. To help with this aim, a number of datasets have been released which can be used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Michael Luke Battle , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Andrew Stephen McGough

Skin cancer can be identified by dermoscopic examination and ocular inspection, but early detection significantly increases survival chances. Artificial intelligence (AI), using annotated skin images and Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Abdullah Al Shafi , Abdul Muntakim , Pintu Chandra Shill , Rowzatul Zannat , Abdullah Al-Amin

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) show a significant impact on medical imaging. One significant problem with adopting DNNs for skin cancer classification is that the class frequencies in the existing datasets are imbalanced. This problem hinders…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-29 Ibrahim Saad Ali , Mamdouh Farouk Mohamed , Yousef Bassyouni Mahdy

Skin lesion detection in dermoscopic images is essential in the accurate and early diagnosis of skin cancer by a computerized apparatus. Current skin lesion segmentation approaches show poor performance in challenging circumstances such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Eric Granger , Huiyu Zhou

Automatic skin lesion segmentation on dermoscopic images is an essential step in computer-aided diagnosis of melanoma. However, this task is challenging due to significant variations of lesion appearances across different patients. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Yading Yuan , Yeh-Chi Lo

Melanoma detection is vital for early diagnosis and effective treatment. While deep learning models on dermoscopic images have shown promise, they require specialized equipment, limiting their use in broader clinical settings. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Volodymyr Sydorskyi , Igor Krashenyi , Oleksii Yakubenko

Deep learning models for dermatological image analysis remain sensitive to acquisition variability and domain-specific visual characteristics, leading to performance degradation when deployed in clinical settings. We investigate how visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Rodrigo Mota , Kelvin Cunha , Emanoel dos Santos , Fábio Papais , Francisco Filho , Thales Bezerra , Erico Medeiros , Paulo Borba , Tsang Ing Ren

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

We present a method for skin lesion segmentation for the ISIC 2017 Skin Lesion Segmentation Challenge. Our approach is based on a Fully Convolutional Network architecture which is trained end to end, from scratch, on a limited dataset. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Dhanesh Ramachandram , Terrance DeVries