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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 cancer, the most common human malignancy, is primarily diagnosed visually by physicians [1]. Classification with an automated method like CNN [2, 3] shows potential for challenging tasks [1]. By now, the deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Wenhao Zhang , Liangcai Gao , Runtao Liu

Early detection and segmentation of skin lesions is crucial for timely diagnosis and treatment, necessary to improve the survival rate of patients. However, manual delineation is time consuming and subject to intra- and inter-observer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Sulaiman Vesal , Shreyas Malakarjun Patil , Nishant Ravikumar , Andreas Maier

As melanoma diagnoses increase across the US, automated efforts to identify malignant lesions become increasingly of interest to the research community. Segmentation of dermoscopic images is the first step in this process, thus accuracy is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Yujie Wang , Simon Sun , Jahow Yu , Dr. Limin Yu

Skin cancer is a major public health problem that could benefit from computer-aided diagnosis to reduce the burden of this common disease. Skin lesion segmentation from images is an important step toward achieving this goal. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Zahra Mirikharaji , Kumar Abhishek , Alceu Bissoto , Catarina Barata , Sandra Avila , Eduardo Valle , M. Emre Celebi , Ghassan Hamarneh

Automatic segmentation of skin lesion is considered a crucial step in Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) for melanoma diagnosis. Despite its significance, skin lesion segmentation remains a challenging task due to their diverse color, texture,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-27 Md. Kamrul Hasan , Lavsen Dahal , Prasad N. Samarakoon , Fakrul Islam Tushar , Robert Marti Marly

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

Multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions occupy a small fraction of the brain volume, and are heterogeneous with regards to shape, size and locations, which poses a great challenge for training deep learning based segmentation models. We proposed a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Hang Zhang , Jinwei Zhang , Rongguang Wang , Qihao Zhang , Susan A. Gauthier , Pascal Spincemaille , Thanh D. Nguyen , Yi Wang

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

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

Skin lesion classification datasets often suffer from severe class imbalance, with malignant cases significantly underrepresented, leading to biased decision boundaries during deep learning training. We address this challenge using…

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

Automatic segmentation methods are an important advancement in medical image analysis. Machine learning techniques, and deep neural networks in particular, are the state-of-the-art for most medical image segmentation tasks. Issues with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-25 Michael Yeung , Evis Sala , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Leonardo Rundo

Early detection of malignant skin lesions is critical for improving patient outcomes in aggressive, metastatic skin cancers. This study evaluates a comprehensive system for preliminary skin lesion assessment that combines the clinically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Ali Khreis , Ro'Yah Radaideh , Quinn McGill

This paper reports the methods and techniques we have developed for classify dermoscopic images (task 1) of the ISIC 2019 challenge dataset for skin lesion classification, our approach aims to use ensemble deep neural network with some…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Alla Eddine Guissous

Skin lesion segmentation is a crucial step in the computer-aided diagnosis of dermoscopic images. In the last few years, deep learning based semantic segmentation methods have significantly advanced the skin lesion segmentation results.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Yaxiong Wang , Yunchao Wei , Xueming Qian , Li Zhu , Yi Yang

Automatic lesion segmentation in dermoscopy images is an essential step for computer-aided diagnosis of melanoma. The dermoscopy images exhibits rotational and reflectional symmetry, however, this geometric property has not been encoded in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Xiaomeng Li , Lequan Yu , Chi-Wing Fu , Pheng-Ann Heng

We consider machine-learning-based malignancy prediction and lesion identification from clinical dermatological images, which can be indistinctly acquired via smartphone or dermoscopy capture. Additionally, we do not assume that images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Meng Xia , Meenal K. Kheterpal , Samantha C. Wong , Christine Park , William Ratliff , Lawrence Carin , Ricardo Henao

This study presents a lightweight pipeline for skin lesion detection, addressing the challenges posed by imbalanced class distribution and subtle or atypical appearances of some lesions. The pipeline is built around a lightweight model that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Mingzhe Hu , Xiaofeng Yang

In this report we propose a classification technique for skin lesion images as a part of our submission for ISIC 2018 Challenge in Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection. Our data was extracted from the ISIC 2018: Skin Lesion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Suhita Ray

Fully convolutional deep neural networks have been asserted to be fast and precise frameworks with great potential in image segmentation. One of the major challenges in training such networks raises when data is unbalanced, which is common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Seyed Raein Hashemi , Seyed Sadegh Mohseni Salehi , Deniz Erdogmus , Sanjay P. Prabhu , Simon K. Warfield , Ali Gholipour