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Skin cancer is a frequently occurring cancer in the human population, and it is very important to be able to diagnose malignant tumors in the body early. Lesion segmentation is crucial for monitoring the morphological changes of skin…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Changlu Guo , Jiangyan Dai , Marton Szemenyei , Yugen Yi

Skin cancer is one of the most prevalent forms of human cancer. It is recognized mainly visually, beginning with clinical screening and continuing with the dermoscopic examination, histological assessment, and specimen collection. Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Ghanta Sai Krishna , Kundrapu Supriya , Mallikharjuna Rao K , Meetiksha Sorgile

Accurate skin cancer diagnosis is vital for early treatment and improved patient outcomes. Deep learning (DL) models have shown promise in automating skin cancer classification, yet challenges remain due to data scarcity and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Hamzeh Asgharnezhad , Pegah Tabarisaadi , Abbas Khosravi , Roohallah Alizadehsani , U. Rajendra Acharya

Deep Learning has emerged as a promising approach for skin lesion analysis. However, existing methods mostly rely on fully supervised learning, requiring extensive labeled data, which is challenging and costly to obtain. To alleviate this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Siyamalan Manivannan

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved great success in skin lesion classification. A balanced dataset is required to train a good model. However, due to the appearance of different skin lesions in practice, severe or even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Keyu Chen , Di Zhuang , J. Morris Chang

Skin disease is one of the most common types of human diseases, which may happen to everyone regardless of age, gender or race. Due to the high visual diversity, human diagnosis highly relies on personal experience; and there is a serious…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-21 Xin He , Shihao Wang , Shaohuai Shi , Zhenheng Tang , Yuxin Wang , Zhihao Zhao , Jing Dai , Ronghao Ni , Xiaofeng Zhang , Xiaoming Liu , Zhili Wu , Wu Yu , Xiaowen Chu

According to WHO[1], since the 1970s, diagnosis of melanoma skin cancer has been more frequent. However, if detected early, the 5-year survival rate for melanoma can increase to 99 percent. In this regard, skin lesion segmentation can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Pooya Mohammadi Kazaj , MohammadHossein Koosheshi , Ali Shahedi , Alireza Vafaei Sadr

Among the different types of skin cancer, melanoma is considered to be the deadliest and is difficult to treat at advanced stages. Detection of melanoma at earlier stages can lead to reduced mortality rates. Desktop-based computer-aided…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Upender Kalwa , Christopher Legner , Taejoon Kong , Santosh Pandey

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

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

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

While deep learning-based computer-aided diagnosis for skin lesion image analysis is approaching dermatologists' performance levels, there are several works showing that incorporating additional features such as shape priors, texture, color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Kumar Abhishek , Ghassan Hamarneh

In this study, we investigate what a practically useful approach is in order to achieve robust skin disease diagnosis. A direct approach is to target the ground truth diagnosis labels, while an alternative approach instead focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Haofu Liao , Yuncheng Li , Jiebo Luo

Pigmented skin lesions represent localized areas of increased melanin and can indicate serious conditions like melanoma, a major contributor to skin cancer mortality. The MedMNIST v2 dataset, inspired by MNIST, was recently introduced to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Nerma Kadric , Amila Akagic , Medina Kapo

This paper introduces a deep-learning based efficient classifier for common dermatological conditions, aimed at people without easy access to skin specialists. We report approximately 80% accuracy, in a situation where primary care doctors…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-01 Sourav Mishra , Toshihiko Yamasaki , Hideaki Imaizumi

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, necessitating advancements in early detection and treatment technologies. In this paper, we present a novel and highly efficient melanoma detection framework that synergistically combines the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Peng Zhang , Divya Chaudhary

Skin lesion datasets consist predominantly of normal samples with only a small percentage of abnormal ones, giving rise to the class imbalance problem. Also, skin lesion images are largely similar in overall appearance owing to the low…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-29 Hasib Zunair , A. Ben Hamza

kin cancer is considered one of the most common type of cancer in several countries. Due to the difficulty and subjectivity in the clinical diagnosis of skin lesions, Computer-Aided Diagnosis systems are being developed for assist experts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 José G. M. Esgario , Renato A. Krohling

Deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) models have been widely explored for skin disease diagnosis and some of them have achieved the diagnostic outcomes comparable or even superior to those of dermatologists. However, broad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Peng Yao , Shuwei Shen , Mengjuan Xu , Peng Liu , Fan Zhang , Jinyu Xing , Pengfei Shao , Benjamin Kaffenberger , Ronald X. Xu

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