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Skin cancer is a life-threatening disease where early detection significantly improves patient outcomes. Automated diagnosis from dermoscopic images is challenging due to high intra-class variability and subtle inter-class differences. Many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Md. Enamul Atiq , Shaikh Anowarul Fattah

Automatic lesion analysis is critical in skin cancer diagnosis and ensures effective treatment. The computer aided diagnosis of such skin cancer in dermoscopic images can significantly reduce the clinicians workload and help improve…

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Skin cancer is a prevalent and potentially fatal disease that requires accurate and efficient diagnosis and treatment. Although manual tracing is the current standard in clinics, automated tools are desired to reduce human labor and improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Mingzhe Hu , Yuheng Li , Xiaofeng Yang

Malignant melanoma has one of the most rapidly increasing incidences in the world and has a considerable mortality rate. Early diagnosis is particularly important since melanoma can be cured with prompt excision. Dermoscopy images play an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Lei Bi , Jinman Kim , Euijoon Ahn , Dagan Feng

Determining early-stage prognostic markers and stratifying patients for effective treatment are two key challenges for improving outcomes for melanoma patients. Previous studies have used tumour transcriptome data to stratify patients into…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-24 Lucy Godson , Navid Alemi , Jeremie Nsengimana , Graham P. Cook , Emily L. Clarke , Darren Treanor , D. Timothy Bishop , Julia Newton-Bishop , Ali Gooya

Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States and is estimated to affect one in five Americans. Recent advances have demonstrated strong performance on skin cancer detection, as exemplified by state of the art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Chi-en Amy Tai , Elizabeth Janes , Chris Czarnecki , Alexander Wong

Although melanoma occurs more rarely than several other skin cancers, patients' long term survival rate is extremely low if the diagnosis is missed. Diagnosis is complicated by a high discordance rate among pathologists when distinguishing…

Background. Subdural hematoma (SDH) is a common neurosurgical emergency, with increasing incidence in aging populations. Rapid and accurate identification is essential to guide timely intervention, yet existing automated tools focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Vasiliki Stoumpou , Rohan Kumar , Bernard Burman , Diego Ojeda , Tapan Mehta , Dimitris Bertsimas

Machine Learning is an important sub-field of the Artificial Intelligence and it has been become a very critical task to train Machine Learning techniques via effective method or techniques. Recently, researchers try to use alternative…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-05 M. Hanefi Calp

Skin cancer, the primary type of cancer that can be identified by visual recognition, requires an automatic identification system that can accurately classify different types of lesions. This paper presents GoogLe-Dense Network (GDN), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Jingmin Wei , Haoyang Shen , Ziyi Wang , Ziqian Zhang

Early detection of melanoma is difficult for the human eye but a crucial step towards reducing its death rate. Computerized detection of these melanoma and other skin lesions is necessary. The central research question in this paper is "How…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Beril Sirmacek , Max Kivits

Northern Europe has the second highest mortality rate of melanoma globally. In 2020, the mortality rate of melanoma rose to 1.9 per 100 000 habitants. Melanoma prognosis is based on a pathologist's subjective visual analysis of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Christopher Andreassen , Saul Fuster , Helga Hardardottir , Emiel A. M. Janssen , Kjersti Engan

Skin cancer continues to be the most frequently diagnosed form of cancer in the U.S., with not only significant effects on health and well-being but also significant economic costs associated with treatment. A crucial step to the treatment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 James Ren Hou Lee , Maya Pavlova , Mahmoud Famouri , Alexander Wong

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

Diagnosing and treating skin diseases require advanced visual skills across domains and the ability to synthesize information from multiple imaging modalities. While current deep learning models excel at specific tasks like skin cancer…

Counting and classifying blood cells is an important diagnostic tool in medicine. Support Vector Machines are increasingly popular and efficient and could replace artificial neural network systems. Here a method to classify blood cells is…

Applications · Statistics 2008-12-15 Tobias Abenius

We introduce SLIMP (Skin Lesion Image-Metadata Pre-training) for learning rich representations of skin lesions through a novel nested contrastive learning approach that captures complex relationships between images and metadata. Melanoma…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Dionysis Christopoulos , Sotiris Spanos , Eirini Baltzi , Valsamis Ntouskos , Konstantinos Karantzalos

Malignant melanoma (MM) is one of the deadliest types of skin cancer. Analysing dermatoscopic images plays an important role in the early detection of MM and other pigmented skin lesions. Among different computer-based methods, deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Amirreza Mahbod , Philipp Tschandl , Georg Langs , Rupert Ecker , Isabella Ellinger

We present our winning solution to the SIIM-ISIC Melanoma Classification Challenge. It is an ensemble of convolutions neural network (CNN) models with different backbones and input sizes, most of which are image-only models while a few of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Qishen Ha , Bo Liu , Fuxu Liu

Automatic detection of brain neoplasm in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is gaining importance in many medical diagnostic applications. This report presents two improvements for brain neoplasm detection in MRI data: an advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Nilanjan Sinhababu , Monalisa Sarma , Debasis Samanta