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This paper summarizes the method used in our submission to Task 1 of the International Skin Imaging Collaboration's (ISIC) Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection challenge held in 2018. We used a fully automated method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Joshua Peter Ebenezer , Jagath C. Rajapakse

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

Human skin segmentation is a crucial task in computer vision and biometric systems, yet it poses several challenges such as variability in skin color, pose, and illumination. This paper presents a robust data-driven skin segmentation method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Kooshan Hashemifard , Pau Climent-Perez , Francisco Florez-Revuelta

Deep segmentation models often face the failure risks when the testing image presents unseen distributions. Improving model robustness against these risks is crucial for the large-scale clinical application of deep models. In this study,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Yuhao Huang , Xin Yang , Xiaoqiong Huang , Jiamin Liang , Xinrui Zhou , Cheng Chen , Haoran Dou , Xindi Hu , Yan Cao , Dong Ni

Biomedical image segmentation is a critical task in medical diagnosis and treatment planning, enabling precise delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions. Despite significant advancements, challenges persist due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Joao Batista Florindo , Amanda Pontes de Oliveira Ornelas

With the rapid evolution of synthetic media, Image Manipulation Localization (IML) has emerged as a critical component in multimedia forensics for ensuring the integrity of digital content. However, generalization remains a core challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yunfei Wang , Bo Du , Zhe Yang , Xin Liu , Zhiyu Lin , Tianxin Xu , Ji-Zhe Zhou

Most image segmentation algorithms are trained on binary masks formulated as a classification task per pixel. However, in applications such as medical imaging, this "black-and-white" approach is too constraining because the contrast between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Charley Gros , Andreanne Lemay , Julien Cohen-Adad

Image classification is a well-studied task in computer vision, and yet it remains challenging under high-uncertainty conditions, such as when input images are corrupted or training data are limited. Conventional classification approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Omer Belhasin , Shelly Golan , Ran El-Yaniv , Michael Elad

Skin color has historically been a focal point of discrimination, yet fairness research in machine learning for medical imaging often relies on coarse subgroup categories, overlooking individual-level variations. Such group-based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Kuniko Paxton , Zeinab Dehghani , Koorosh Aslansefat , Dhavalkumar Thakker , Yiannis Papadopoulos

Conditional diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in various generative tasks recently, but their training typically relies on large-scale datasets that inevitably contain imprecise information in conditional inputs. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Dong-Dong Wu , Jiacheng Cui , Wei Wang , Zhiqiang Shen , Masashi Sugiyama

Diffusion models, while trained for image generation, have emerged as powerful foundational feature extractors for downstream tasks. We find that off-the-shelf diffusion models, trained exclusively to generate natural RGB images, can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Nurislam Tursynbek , Hastings Greer , Basar Demir , Marc Niethammer

Foundation models have exhibited unprecedented capabilities in tackling many domains and tasks. Models such as CLIP are currently widely used to bridge cross-modal representations, and text-to-image diffusion models are arguably the leading…

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Image restoration aims to enhance low quality images, producing high quality images that exhibit natural visual characteristics and fine semantic attributes. Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a powerful technique for image…

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Skin cancer is the most common of all cancers and each year million cases of skin cancer are treated. Treating and curing skin cancer is easy, if it is diagnosed and treated at an early stage. In this work we propose an automatic technique…

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

Diffusion models are primarily trained for image synthesis, yet their denoising trajectories encode rich, spatially aligned visual priors. In this paper, we demonstrate that these priors can be utilized for text-conditioned semantic and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Haoxiao Wang , Antao Xiang , Haiyang Sun , Peilin Sun , Changhao Pan , Yifu Chen , Minjie Hong , Weijie Wang , Shuang Chen , Yue Chen , Zhou Zhao

Semantic segmentation is essential in computer vision for various applications, yet traditional approaches face significant challenges, including the high cost of annotation and extensive training for supervised learning. Additionally, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yasufumi Kawano , Yoshimitsu Aoki

Text-based image segmentation aims to delineate object boundaries within an image from text prompts, offering higher flexibility and broader application scope compared to traditional fixed-category segmentation tasks. Recent studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Zishen Qu , Xuesong Li , Haijian Gu , Hongwei Kang , Quan Meng , Tianrui Niu , Xin Yang , Ruidong Pan

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

This report summarises our method and validation results for the ISIC Challenge 2018 - Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection - Task 1: Lesion Segmentation. We present a two-stage method for lesion segmentation with optimised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Chengyao Qian , Ting Liu , Hao Jiang , Zhe Wang , Pengfei Wang , Mingxin Guan , Biao Sun

Segmentation models based on deep neural networks demonstrate strong generalization for medical image segmentation. However, they often exhibit overconfidence or underconfidence, leading to unreliable confidence scores for segmentation…

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