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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

Purpose: Manual medical image segmentation is an exhausting and time-consuming task along with high inter-observer variability. In this study, our objective is to improve the multi-resolution image segmentation performance of U-Net…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Simindokht Jahangard , Mohammad Hossein Zangooei , Maysam Shahedi

Recently, some pioneering works have preferred applying more complex modules to improve segmentation performances. However, it is not friendly for actual clinical environments due to limited computing resources. To address this challenge,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Jiacheng Ruan , Suncheng Xiang , Mingye Xie , Ting Liu , Yuzhuo Fu

Cancerous skin lesions are one of the most common malignancies detected in humans, and if not detected at an early stage, they can lead to death. Therefore, it is crucial to have access to accurate results early on to optimize the chances…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Daniel Alonso Villanueva Nunez , Yongmin Li

Automatic skin lesion segmentation on dermoscopic images is an essential step in computer-aided diagnosis of melanoma. However, this task is challenging due to significant variations of lesion appearances across different patients. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Yading Yuan , Yeh-Chi Lo

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Alican Bozkurt , Kivanc Kose , Christi Alessi-Fox , Melissa Gill , Dana H. Brooks , Jennifer G. Dy , Milind Rajadhyaksha

Melanoma, one of most dangerous types of skin cancer, re-sults in a very high mortality rate. Early detection and resection are two key points for a successful cure. Recent research has used artificial intelligence to classify melanoma and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Cong Tri Pham , Mai Chi Luong , Dung Van Hoang , Antoine Doucet

Skin lesion segmentation is key for early skin cancer detection. Challenges in automatic segmentation from dermoscopic images include variations in color, texture, and artifacts of indistinct lesion boundaries. Deep learning methods like…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Chunyu Yuan , Dongfang Zhao , Sos S. Agaian

Skin Cancer is one of the most deathful of all the cancers. It is bound to spread to different parts of the body on the off chance that it is not analyzed and treated at the beginning time. It is mostly because of the abnormal growth of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Rishu Garg , Saumil Maheshwari , Anupam Shukla

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

Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. While curable with early detection, only highly trained specialists are capable of accurately recognizing the disease. As expertise is in limited supply, automated systems capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Noel Codella , Quoc-Bao Nguyen , Sharath Pankanti , David Gutman , Brian Helba , Allan Halpern , John R. Smith

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

In the field of healthcare, precise skin lesion segmentation is crucial for the early detection and accurate diagnosis of skin diseases. Despite significant advances in deep learning for image processing, existing methods have yet to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Siyu Wang , Hua Wang , Huiyu Li , Fan Zhang

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

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

Melanoma is the most lethal subtype of skin cancer, and early and accurate detection of this disease can greatly improve patients' outcomes. Although machine learning models, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have shown great…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Tanay Donde

Manually inspecting polyps from a colonoscopy for colorectal cancer or performing a biopsy on skin lesions for skin cancer are time-consuming, laborious, and complex procedures. Automatic medical image segmentation aims to expedite this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Akib Mohammed Khan , Alif Ashrafee , Fahim Shahriar Khan , Md. Bakhtiar Hasan , Md. Hasanul Kabir

Today, skin cancer is considered as one of the most dangerous and common cancers in the world which demands special attention. Skin cancer may be developed in different types; including melanoma, actinic keratosis, basal cell carcinoma,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Amir Faghihi , Mohammadreza Fathollahi , Roozbeh Rajabi

Magnetic resonance imaging is a fundamental tool to reach a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and monitoring its progression. Although several attempts have been made to segment multiple sclerosis lesions using artificial intelligence, fully…

Melanoma is one of the most serious skin cancers that can occur in any part of the human skin. Early diagnosis of melanoma lesions will significantly increase their chances of being cured. Improving melanoma segmentation will help doctors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Mohamad Taghizadeh , Karim Mohammadi