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Deep learning is the current bet for image classification. Its greed for huge amounts of annotated data limits its usage in medical imaging context. In this scenario transfer learning appears as a prominent solution. In this report we aim…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Afonso Menegola , Michel Fornaciali , Ramon Pires , Sandra Avila , Eduardo Valle

Melanoma is one of the ten most common cancers in the US. Early detection is crucial for survival, but often the cancer is diagnosed in the fatal stage. Deep learning has the potential to improve cancer detection rates, but its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Devansh Bisla , Anna Choromanska , Jennifer A. Stein , David Polsky , Russell Berman

Using deep learning models to diagnose cancer from histology data presents several challenges. Cancer grading and localization of regions of interest (ROIs) in these images normally relies on both image- and pixel-level labels, the latter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Jérôme Rony , Soufiane Belharbi , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

We present a weakly supervised deep learning method to perform instance segmentation of cells present in microscopy images. Annotation of biomedical images in the lab can be scarce, incomplete, and inaccurate. This is of concern when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Fidel A. Guerrero-Peña , Pedro D. Marrero Fernandez , Tsang Ing Ren , Alexandre Cunha

The clinical diagnosis of skin lesion involves the analysis of dermoscopic and clinical modalities. Dermoscopic images provide a detailed view of the surface structures whereas clinical images offer a complementary macroscopic information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Hao Wang , Euijoon Ahn , Lei Bi , Jinman Kim

The detection of nuclei is one of the most fundamental components of computational pathology. Current state-of-the-art methods are based on deep learning, with the prerequisite that extensive labeled datasets are available. The increasing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-11 Nicolas Brieu , Armin Meier , Ansh Kapil , Ralf Schoenmeyer , Christos G. Gavriel , Peter D. Caie , Günter Schmidt

Deep learning-based nuclei segmentation and classification in pathology images typically rely on large-scale pixel-level manual annotations, which are costly and difficult to obtain across diverse tissues and staining conditions. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Kazuya Nishimura , Ryoma Bise , Haruka Hirose , Yasuhiro Kojima

Recent breakthroughs in self-supervised learning have enabled the use of large unlabeled datasets to train visual foundation models that can generalize to a variety of downstream tasks. While this training paradigm is well suited for the…

Background and objective: Employing deep learning models in critical domains such as medical imaging poses challenges associated with the limited availability of training data. We present a strategy for improving the performance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Eva Pachetti , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris , Sara Colantonio

Dermatologists often diagnose or rule out early melanoma by evaluating the follow-up dermoscopic images of skin lesions. However, existing algorithms for early melanoma diagnosis are developed using single time-point images of lesions.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-13 Zhen Yu , Jennifer Nguyen , Toan D Nguyen , John Kelly , Catriona Mclean , Paul Bonnington , Lei Zhang , Victoria Mar , Zongyuan Ge

Melanoma, a malignant form of skin cancer is very threatening to life. Diagnosis of melanoma at an earlier stage is highly needed as it has a very high cure rate. Benign and malignant forms of skin cancer can be detected by analyzing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-14 P. Mirunalini , Aravindan Chandrabose , Vignesh Gokul , S. M. Jaisakthi

Convolutional Neural Networks have demonstrated dermatologist-level performance in the classification of melanoma from skin lesion images, but prediction irregularities due to biases seen within the training data are an issue that should be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Peter J. Bevan , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

Melanoma is an aggressive neoplasm responsible for the majority of deaths from skin cancer. Specifically, spitzoid melanocytic tumors are one of the most challenging melanocytic lesions due to their ambiguous morphological features. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Rocío del Amor , Laëtitia Launet , Adrián Colomer , Anaïs Moscardó , Andrés Mosquera-Zamudio , Carlos Monteagudo , Valery Naranjo

Automatic skin lesion segmentation on dermoscopic images is an essential component in computer-aided diagnosis of melanoma. Recently, many fully supervised deep learning based methods have been proposed for automatic skin lesion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Xiaomeng Li , Lequan Yu , Hao Chen , Chi-Wing Fu , Pheng-Ann Heng

We propose a new method for cancer subtype classification from histopathological images, which can automatically detect tumor-specific features in a given whole slide image (WSI). The cancer subtype should be classified by referring to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Noriaki Hashimoto , Daisuke Fukushima , Ryoichi Koga , Yusuke Takagi , Kaho Ko , Kei Kohno , Masato Nakaguro , Shigeo Nakamura , Hidekata Hontani , Ichiro Takeuchi

In this paper, we studied extensively on different deep learning based methods to detect melanoma and skin lesion cancers. Melanoma, a form of malignant skin cancer is very threatening to health. Proper diagnosis of melanoma at an earlier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Md Ashraful Alam Milton

Automated skin lesion classification using deep learning has shown remarkable accuracy, yet clinical adoption remains limited due to the "black box" nature of these models. We present MelanomaNet, an explainable deep learning system for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Sukhrobbek Ilyosbekov

Recent studies have shown promising results in using Deep Learning to detect malignancy in whole slide imaging. However, they were limited to just predicting positive or negative finding for a specific neoplasm. We attempted to use Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Hanadi El Achi , Tatiana Belousova , Lei Chen , Amer Wahed , Iris Wang , Zhihong Hu , Zeyad Kanaan , Adan Rios , Andy N. D. Nguyen

Increased levels of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in cancer tissue indicate favourable outcomes in many types of cancer. Manual quantification of immune cells is inaccurate and time consuming for pathologists. Our aim is to leverage…

The study of histopathological subtypes is valuable for the personalisation of effective treatment strategies for ovarian cancer. However, increasing diagnostic workloads present a challenge for UK pathology departments, leading to the rise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Marcus Jenkins , Jasenka Mazibrada , Bogdan Leahu , Michal Mackiewicz