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Melanoma is caused by the abnormal growth of melanocytes in human skin. Like other cancers, this life-threatening skin cancer can be treated with early diagnosis. To support a diagnosis by automatic skin lesion segmentation, several Fully…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Reza Azad , Maral Zarvani , Dorit Merhof

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

Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) combined with computed tomography (CT) is considered the primary solution for detecting some cancers, such as lung cancer and melanoma. Automatic segmentation of tumors in PET/CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Linghan Cai , Jianhao Huang , Zihang Zhu , Jinpeng Lu , Yongbing Zhang

Skin lesion segmentation plays a critical role in the early detection and accurate diagnosis of dermatological conditions. Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have recently gained attention for their exceptional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Afshin Bozorgpour , Yousef Sadegheih , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Reza Azad , Dorit Merhof

This work is about the semantic segmentation of skin lesion boundary and their attributes using Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Nets. Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that can be cured if detected in time.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Cristian Lazo

Prompt treatment for melanoma is crucial. To assist physicians in identifying lesion areas precisely in a quick manner, we propose a novel skin lesion segmentation technique namely SLP-Net, an ultra-lightweight segmentation network based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-05 Bo Yang , Hong Peng , Chenggang Guo , Xiaohui Luo , Jun Wang , Xianzhong Long

Automatic segmentation of liver lesions is a fundamental requirement towards the creation of computer aided diagnosis (CAD) and decision support systems (CDS). Traditional segmentation approaches depend heavily upon hand-crafted features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Lei Bi , Jinman Kim , Ashnil Kumar , Dagan Feng

Skin lesion is a severe disease in world-wide extent. Early detection of melanoma in dermoscopy images significantly increases the survival rate. However, the accurate recognition of melanoma is extremely challenging due to the following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Yuexiang Li , Linlin Shen

Skin lesion segmentation plays a crucial role in the computer-aided diagnosis of melanoma. Deep Learning models have shown promise in accurately segmenting skin lesions, but their widespread adoption in real-life clinical settings is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-01 Shankara Narayanan , Sikha OK , Raul Benitez

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

This paper proposes a high-precision semantic segmentation method based on an improved TransUNet architecture to address the challenges of complex lesion structures, blurred boundaries, and significant scale variations in skin lesion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Xin Wang , Xiaopei Zhang , Xingang Wang

Computer-aided diagnosis systems for classification of different type of skin lesions have been an active field of research in recent decades. It has been shown that introducing lesions and their attributes masks into lesion classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Mostafa Jahanifar , Neda Zamani Tajeddin , Navid Alemi Koohbanani , Ali Gooya , Nasir Rajpoot

Accurate medical image segmentation is essential for diagnosis and treatment planning of diseases. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for automatic medical image segmentation. However, they are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Ran Gu , Guotai Wang , Tao Song , Rui Huang , Michael Aertsen , Jan Deprest , Sébastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren , Shaoting Zhang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown remarkable progress in medical image segmentation. However, lesion segmentation remains a challenge to state-of-the-art CNN-based algorithms due to the variance in scales and shapes. On the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Yanwen Li , Luyang Luo , Huangjing Lin , Pheng-Ann Heng , Hao Chen

Background:Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN) and Vision Transformers(ViT) are the main techniques used in Medical image segmentation. However, CNN is limited to local contextual information, and ViT's quadratic complexity results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Xuanyu Liu , Huiyun Yao , Jinggui Gao , Zhongyi Guo , Xue Zhang , Yulin Dong

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

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

Automatic melanoma segmentation is essential for early skin cancer detection, yet challenges arise from the heterogeneity of melanoma, as well as interfering factors like blurred boundaries, low contrast, and imaging artifacts. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Zhuoyi Fang , Jiajia Liu , Kexuan Shi , Qiang Han

Automatic medical image segmentation, an essential component of medical image analysis, plays an importantrole in computer-aided diagnosis. For example, locating and segmenting the liver can be very helpful in livercancer diagnosis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Xi Fang , Bo Du , Sheng Xu , Bradford J. Wood , Pingkun Yan

For complex segmentation tasks, fully automatic systems are inherently limited in their achievable accuracy for extracting relevant objects. Especially in cases where only few data sets need to be processed for a highly accurate result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Mario Amrehn , Sven Gaube , Mathias Unberath , Frank Schebesch , Tim Horz , Maddalena Strumia , Stefan Steidl , Markus Kowarschik , Andreas Maier