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In this paper we present the methods of our submission to the ISIC 2018 challenge for skin lesion diagnosis (Task 3). The dataset consists of 10000 images with seven image-level classes to be distinguished by an automated algorithm. We…

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Diffusion models are becoming increasingly popular in synthetic data generation and image editing applications. However, these models can amplify existing biases and propagate them to downstream applications. Therefore, it is crucial to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Malsha V. Perera , Vishal M. Patel

Text-to-image diffusion has attracted vast attention due to its impressive image-generation capabilities. However, when it comes to human-centric text-to-image generation, particularly in the context of faces and hands, the results often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jie Zhu , Yixiong Chen , Mingyu Ding , Ping Luo , Leye Wang , Jingdong Wang

Standard of care diagnostic procedure for suspected skin cancer is microscopic examination of hematoxylin \& eosin stained tissue by a pathologist. Areas of high inter-pathologist discordance and rising biopsy rates necessitate higher…

Expression of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is an important biomarker in breast cancer patients who can benefit from cost-effective automatic Hematoxylin and Eosin (H\&E) HER2 scoring. However, developing such scoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Rawan S. Abdulsadig , Bryan M. Williams , Nikolay Burlutskiy

New medical datasets are now more open to the public, allowing for better and more extensive research. Although prepared with the utmost care, new datasets might still be a source of spurious correlations that affect the learning process.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Agnieszka Mikołajczyk , Sylwia Majchrowska , Sandra Carrasco Limeros

Melanoma is the most severe type of skin cancer due to its ability to cause metastasis. It is more common in black people, often affecting acral regions: palms, soles, and nails. Deep neural networks have shown tremendous potential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Luana Barros , Levy Chaves , Sandra Avila

Skin diseases are among the most prevalent health issues, and accurate computer-aided diagnosis methods are of importance for both dermatologists and patients. However, most of the existing methods overlook the essential domain knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Yan-Jie Zhou , Wei Liu , Yuan Gao , Jing Xu , Le Lu , Yuping Duan , Hao Cheng , Na Jin , Xiaoyong Man , Shuang Zhao , Yu Wang

Melanoma is the most lethal form of skin cancer, and early detection is critical for improving patient outcomes. Although dermoscopy combined with deep learning has advanced automated skin-lesion analysis, progress is hindered by limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Pei-Yu Lin , Yidan Shen , Neville Mathew , Renjie Hu , Siyu Huang , Courtney M. Queen , Cameron E. West , Ana Ciurea , George Zouridakis

The rising prevalence of vision-threatening retinal diseases poses a significant burden on the global healthcare systems. Deep learning (DL) offers a promising solution for automatic disease screening but demands substantial data.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Ruoyu Chen , Weiyi Zhang , Bowen Liu , Xiaolan Chen , Pusheng Xu , Shunming Liu , Mingguang He , Danli Shi

While large text-to-image models are able to synthesize "novel" images, these images are necessarily a reflection of the training data. The problem of data attribution in such models -- which of the images in the training set are most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Sheng-Yu Wang , Alexei A. Efros , Jun-Yan Zhu , Richard Zhang

Standard classification theory assumes that the distribution of images in the test and training sets are identical. Unfortunately, real-life scenarios typically feature unseen data (``out-of-distribution data") which is different from data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Gianluca Barone , Aashrit Cunchala , Rudy Nunez

Deep learning models show remarkable results in automated skin lesion analysis. However, these models demand considerable amounts of data, while the availability of annotated skin lesion images is often limited. Data augmentation can expand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Fábio Perez , Cristina Vasconcelos , Sandra Avila , Eduardo Valle

Skin conditions are reported the 4th leading cause of nonfatal disease burden worldwide. However, given the colossal spectrum of skin disorders defined clinically and shortage in dermatology expertise, diagnosing skin conditions in a timely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Junyan Wu , Hao Jiang , Xiaowei Ding , Anudeep Konda , Jin Han , Yang Zhang , Qian Li

This study evaluated generative methods to potentially mitigate AI bias when diagnosing diabetic retinopathy (DR) resulting from training data imbalance, or domain generalization which occurs when deep learning systems (DLS) face concepts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Philippe Burlina , Neil Joshi , William Paul , Katia D. Pacheco , Neil M. Bressler

Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms using deep learning have advanced the classification of skin disease images; however these algorithms have been mostly applied "in silico" and not validated clinically. Most dermatology AI algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Roxana Daneshjou , Carrie Kovarik , Justin M Ko

Cutaneous malignancies demand early detection for favorable outcomes, yet current diagnostics suffer from inter-observer variability and access disparities. While AI shows promise, existing dermatological systems are limited by homogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Sher Khan , Raz Muhammad , Adil Hussain , Muhammad Sajjad , Muhammad Rashid

State-of-the-art generative text-to-image models are known to exhibit social biases and over-represent certain groups like people of perceived lighter skin tones and men in their outcomes. In this work, we propose a method to mitigate such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Piero Esposito , Parmida Atighehchian , Anastasis Germanidis , Deepti Ghadiyaram

Diffusion Probabilistic Models have recently shown remarkable performance in generative image modeling, attracting significant attention in the computer vision community. However, while a substantial amount of diffusion-based research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yijun Yang , Huazhu Fu , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Lei Zhu