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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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Lesion segmentation is the first step in most automatic melanoma recognition systems. Deficiencies and difficulties in dermoscopic images such as color inconstancy, hair occlusion, dark corners and color charts make lesion segmentation an…

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Accurate medical image segmentation is fundamental to precision medicine, yet robust delineation remains challenging under heterogeneous appearances, ambiguous boundaries, and large anatomical variability. Similar intensity and texture…

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Early detection and segmentation of skin lesions is crucial for timely diagnosis and treatment, necessary to improve the survival rate of patients. However, manual delineation is time consuming and subject to intra- and inter-observer…

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Skin cancer is a major public health problem that could benefit from computer-aided diagnosis to reduce the burden of this common disease. Skin lesion segmentation from images is an important step toward achieving this goal. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Zahra Mirikharaji , Kumar Abhishek , Alceu Bissoto , Catarina Barata , Sandra Avila , Eduardo Valle , M. Emre Celebi , Ghassan Hamarneh

Skin cancer, particularly melanoma, remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality, making early detection critical. AI-driven dermatology systems often rely on skin lesion segmentation as a preprocessing step to delineate the lesion from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Kuniko Paxton , Medina Kapo , Amila Akagić , Koorosh Aslansefat , Dhavalkumar Thakker , Yiannis Papadopoulos

Deep learning models have achieved great success in automating skin lesion diagnosis. However, the ethnic disparity in these models' predictions, where lesions on darker skin types are usually underrepresented and have lower diagnosis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Siyi Du , Ben Hers , Nourhan Bayasi , Ghassan Hamarneh , Rafeef Garbi

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

Current AI-assisted skin image diagnosis has achieved dermatologist-level performance in classifying skin cancer, driven by rapid advancements in deep learning architectures. However, unlike traditional vision tasks, skin images in general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Xin Hu , Janet Wang , Jihun Hamm , Rie R Yotsu , Zhengming Ding

Deep learning models (DLMs) frequently achieve accurate segmentation and classification of tumors from medical images. However, DLMs lacking feedback on their image segmentation mechanisms, such as Dice coefficients and confidence in their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Elhoucine Elfatimi , Pratik Shah

Segmentation is essential for medical image analysis to identify and localize diseases, monitor morphological changes, and extract discriminative features for further diagnosis. Skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-02 Hritam Basak , Rohit Kundu , Ram Sarkar

Image segmentation is crucial in many computational pathology pipelines, including accurate disease diagnosis, subtyping, outcome, and survivability prediction. The common approach for training a segmentation model relies on a pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Sachin Kumar Danisetty , Alexandros Graikos , Srikar Yellapragada , Dimitris Samaras

Medical image segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Traditional methods typically produce a single segmentation mask, failing to capture inherent uncertainty. Recent generative models enable the creation of…

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Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in image classification and segmentation tasks. However, fairness concerns persist, as models often exhibit biases that disproportionately affect demographic groups defined by sensitive…

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The Computer-aided Diagnosis or Detection (CAD) approach for skin lesion analysis is an emerging field of research that has the potential to alleviate the burden and cost of skin cancer screening. Researchers have recently indicated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-03 Md. Kamrul Hasan , Md. Asif Ahamad , Choon Hwai Yap , Guang Yang

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

Diffusion probabilistic model (DPM) recently becomes one of the hottest topic in computer vision. Its image generation application such as Imagen, Latent Diffusion Models and Stable Diffusion have shown impressive generation capabilities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Junde Wu , Rao Fu , Huihui Fang , Yu Zhang , Yehui Yang , Haoyi Xiong , Huiying Liu , Yanwu Xu

We consider machine-learning-based malignancy prediction and lesion identification from clinical dermatological images, which can be indistinctly acquired via smartphone or dermoscopy capture. Additionally, we do not assume that images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Meng Xia , Meenal K. Kheterpal , Samantha C. Wong , Christine Park , William Ratliff , Lawrence Carin , Ricardo Henao

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly improved the accuracy of skin lesion classification models, supporting medical diagnoses and promoting equitable healthcare. However, concerns remain about potential biases related to skin…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Kuniko Paxton , Koorosh Aslansefat , Dhavalkumar Thakker , Yiannis Papadopoulos , Tanaya Maslekar

Skin diseases are among the most prevalent health concerns worldwide, yet conventional diagnostic methods are often costly, complex, and unavailable in low-resource settings. Automated classification using deep learning has emerged as a…

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