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Skin cancer, a major form of cancer, is a critical public health problem with 123,000 newly diagnosed melanoma cases and between 2 and 3 million non-melanoma cases worldwide each year. The leading cause of skin cancer is high exposure of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-28 Saket S. Chaturvedi , Kajol Gupta , Prakash. S. Prasad

This abstract describes the segmentation system used to participate in the challenge ISIC 2017: Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection. Several preprocessing techniques have been tested for three color representations (RGB, YCbCr…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Juana M. Gutiérrez-Arriola , Marta Gómez-Álvarez , Victor Osma-Ruiz , Nicolás Sáenz-Lechón , Rubén Fraile

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in various clinical applications; however, existing deep learning models face trade-offs between efficiency and accuracy. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) capture local details well but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Saqib Qamar , Mohd Fazil , Parvez Ahmad , Shakir Khan , Abu Taha Zamani

Incorporating modern computer vision techniques into clinical protocols shows promise in improving skin lesion segmentation. The U-Net architecture has been a key model in this area, iteratively improved to address challenges arising from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Tariq M Khan , Dawn Lin , Shahzaib Iqbal , Erik Meijering

Unsupervised skin lesion segmentation offers several benefits, including conserving expert human resources, reducing discrepancies due to subjective human labeling, and adapting to novel environments. However, segmenting dermoscopic images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Xiaofan Li , Bo Peng , Jie Hu , Changyou Ma , Daipeng Yang , Zhuyang Xie

Melanoma is a sort of skin cancer that starts in the cells known as melanocytes. It is more dangerous than other types of skin cancer because it can spread to other organs. Melanoma can be fatal if it spreads to other parts of the body.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Md. Fahim Uddin , Nafisa Tafshir , Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan

Deep learning has revolutionized medical imaging by providing innovative solutions to complex healthcare challenges. Traditional models often struggle to dynamically adjust feature importance, resulting in suboptimal representation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-29 Kazi Shahriar Sanjid , Md. Tanzim Hossain , Md. Shakib Shahariar Junayed , M. Monir Uddin

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

Melanoma classification is a serious stage to identify the skin disease. It is considered a challenging process due to the intra-class discrepancy of melanomas, skin lesions low contrast, and the artifacts in the dermoscopy images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Yanhui Guo , Amira S. Ashour

Skin cancer continues to be the most frequently diagnosed form of cancer in the U.S., with not only significant effects on health and well-being but also significant economic costs associated with treatment. A crucial step to the treatment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 James Ren Hou Lee , Maya Pavlova , Mahmoud Famouri , Alexander Wong

Breast cancer lesion segmentation in DCE-MRI remains challenging due to heterogeneous tumor morphology and indistinct boundaries. To address these challenges, this study proposes a novel hybrid segmentation network, HCMA-UNet, for lesion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Haoxuan Li , Wei song , Peiwu Qin , Xi Yuan , Zhenglin Chen

Automated skin lesion segmentation and classification are two most essential and related tasks in the computer-aided diagnosis of skin cancer. Despite their prevalence, deep learning models are usually designed for only one task, ignoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Yutong Xie , Jianpeng Zhang , Yong Xia , Chunhua Shen

This article presents the design, experiments and results of our solution submitted to the 2018 ISIC challenge: Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection. We design a pipeline using state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Katherine M. Li , Evelyn C. Li

Automated skin lesion segmentation through dermoscopic analysis is essential for early skin cancer detection, yet remains challenging due to limited annotated training data. We present MIRA-U, a semi-supervised framework that combines…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Saqib Qamar

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

Skin cancer is a frequently occurring cancer in the human population, and it is very important to be able to diagnose malignant tumors in the body early. Lesion segmentation is crucial for monitoring the morphological changes of skin…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Changlu Guo , Jiangyan Dai , Marton Szemenyei , Yugen Yi

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

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

Our goal is to bridge human and machine intelligence in melanoma detection. We develop a classification system exploiting a combination of visual pre-processing, deep learning, and ensembling for providing explanations to experts and to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Ellák Somfai , Benjámin Baffy , Kristian Fenech , Changlu Guo , Rita Hosszú , Dorina Korózs , Fabrizio Nunnari , Marcell Pólik , Daniel Sonntag , Attila Ulbert , András Lőrincz

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer with the most rapidly increasing incidence. Early detection of melanoma using dermoscopy images significantly increases patients' survival rate. However, accurately classifying skin lesions by eye,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Xiaoxiao Li , Junyan Wu , Eric Z. Chen , Hongda Jiang