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Early detection of skin cancers like melanoma is crucial to ensure high chances of survival for patients. Clinical application of Deep Learning (DL)-based Decision Support Systems (DSS) for skin cancer screening has the potential to improve…

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Automated region of interest detection in histopathological image analysis is a challenging and important topic with tremendous potential impact on clinical practice. The deep-learning methods used in computational pathology help us to…

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Diagnosing basal cell carcinomas (BCC), one of the most common cutaneous malignancies in humans, is a task regularly performed by pathologists and dermato-pathologists. Improving histological diagnosis by providing diagnosis suggestions,…

We describe a new multiresolution "nested encoder-decoder" convolutional network architecture and use it to annotate morphological patterns in reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) images of human skin for aiding cancer diagnosis. Skin…

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Diagnostic pathology, which is the basis and gold standard of cancer diagnosis, provides essential information on the prognosis of the disease and vital evidence for clinical treatment. Tumor region detection, subtype and grade…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-27 Jialun Wu , Haichuan Zhang , Zeyu Gao , Xinrui Bao , Tieliang Gong , Chunbao Wang , Chen Li

Melanoma is an aggressive form of skin cancer with rapid progression and high metastatic potential. Accurate characterisation of tissue morphology in melanoma is crucial for prognosis and treatment planning. However, manual segmentation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Jiaqi Lv , Yijie Zhu , Carmen Guadalupe Colin Tenorio , Brinder Singh Chohan , Mark Eastwood , Shan E Ahmed Raza

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

Skin cancer is one of the most common and deadliest types of cancer. Early diagnosis of skin cancer at a benign stage is critical to reducing cancer mortality. To detect skin cancer at an earlier stage an automated system is compulsory that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Md Sirajul Islam , Sanjeev Panta

Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) is the most common cancer type of the epithelium and is often detected at a late stage. Besides invasive diagnosis of SCC by means of biopsy and histo-pathologic assessment, Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy (CLE)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Marc Aubreville , Miguel Goncalves , Christian Knipfer , Nicolai Oetter , Helmut Neumann , Florian Stelzle , Christopher Bohr , Andreas Maier

Melanoma is a leading cause of deaths due to skin cancer deaths and hence, early and effective diagnosis of melanoma is of interest. Current approaches for automated diagnosis of melanoma either use pattern recognition or analytical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Prathyusha Akundi , Soumyasis Gun , Jayanthi Sivaswamy

Graph signal processing (GSP) is becoming a major tool in biomedical signal and image analysis. In most GSP techniques, graph structures and edge weights have been typically set via statistical and computational methods. More recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Asmaa M. Elwer , Muhammad A. Rushdi , Mahmoud H. Annaby

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) accounts for about 75% of skin cancers. The adoption of teledermatology protocols in Spanish public hospitals has increased dermatologists' workload, motivating the development of AI tools for lesion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Iván Matas , Carmen Serrano , Francisca Silva , Amalia Serrano , Tomás Toledo-Pastrana , Begoña Acha

This work seeks to determine how modern machine learning techniques may be applied to the previously unexplored topic of melanoma diagnostics using digital pathology. We curated a new dataset of 50 patient cases of cutaneous melanoma using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Adon Phillips , Iris Teo , Jochen Lang

The 7-point checklist (7PCL) is a widely used diagnostic tool in dermoscopy for identifying malignant melanoma by assigning point values to seven specific attributes. However, the traditional 7PCL is limited to distinguishing between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Yuheng Wang , Tianze Yu , Jiayue Cai , Sunil Kalia , Harvey Lui , Z. Jane Wang , Tim K. Lee

Deep learning techniques have proven high accuracy for identifying melanoma in digitised dermoscopic images. A strength is that these methods are not constrained by features that are pre-defined by human semantics. A down-side is that it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Kyle Young , Gareth Booth , Becks Simpson , Reuben Dutton , Sally Shrapnel

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

Cancer, in general, is very deadly. Timely treatment of any cancer is the key to saving a life. Skin cancer is no exception. There have been thousands of Skin Cancer cases registered per year all over the world. There have been 123,000…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Kaushil Mangaroliya , Mitt Shah

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

Diagnosing diseases through histopathology whole slide images (WSIs) is fundamental in modern pathology but is challenged by the gigapixel scale and complexity of WSIs. Trained histopathologists overcome this challenge by navigating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Fatemeh Ghezloo , Mehmet Saygin Seyfioglu , Rustin Soraki , Wisdom O. Ikezogwo , Beibin Li , Tejoram Vivekanandan , Joann G. Elmore , Ranjay Krishna , Linda Shapiro

The incidence of malignant melanoma continues to increase worldwide. This cancer can strike at any age; it is one of the leading causes of loss of life in young persons. Since this cancer is visible on the skin, it is potentially detectable…

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