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Recent works have shown that deep learning based skin lesion image classification models trained on unbalanced dataset can exhibit bias toward protected demographic attributes such as race, age,and gender. Current bias mitigation methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Zihan Wei , Tapabrata Chakraborti

With the rapid advancement of deep learning technologies, artificial intelligence has become increasingly prevalent in the research and application of dermatological disease diagnosis. However, this data-driven approach often faces issues…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yiqin Luo , Tianlong Gu

The surge in developing deep learning models for diagnosing skin lesions through image analysis is notable, yet their clinical black faces challenges. Current dermatology AI models have limitations: limited number of possible diagnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Deval Mehta , Brigid Betz-Stablein , Toan D Nguyen , Yaniv Gal , Adrian Bowling , Martin Haskett , Maithili Sashindranath , Paul Bonnington , Victoria Mar , H Peter Soyer , Zongyuan Ge

Dermatological diseases are among the most common disorders worldwide. This paper presents the first study of the interpretability and imbalanced semi-supervised learning of the multiclass intelligent skin diagnosis framework (ISDL) using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Futian Weng , Yuanting Ma , Jinghan Sun , Shijun Shan , Qiyuan Li , Jianping Zhu , Yang Wang , Yan Xu

As deep learning models gain attraction in medical data, ensuring transparent and trustworthy decision-making is essential. In skin cancer diagnosis, while advancements in lesion detection and classification have improved accuracy, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sadia Kamal , Tim Oates

For the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in high-risk settings, such as healthcare, methods that provide interpretability/explainability or allow fine-grained error analysis are critical. Many recent methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Roxana Daneshjou , Mert Yuksekgonul , Zhuo Ran Cai , Roberto Novoa , James Zou

Current unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods for semantic segmentation typically assume identical class labels between the source and target domains. This assumption ignores the label-level domain gap, which is common in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Han Sun , Rui Gong , Ismail Nejjar , Olga Fink

The crux of learning vision-language models is to extract semantically aligned information from visual and linguistic data. Existing attempts usually face the problem of coarse alignment, e.g., the vision encoder struggles in localizing an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Qinying Liu , Wei Wu , Kecheng Zheng , Zhan Tong , Jiawei Liu , Yu Liu , Wei Chen , Zilei Wang , Yujun Shen

Deep learning models for dermatological image analysis remain sensitive to acquisition variability and domain-specific visual characteristics, leading to performance degradation when deployed in clinical settings. We investigate how visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Rodrigo Mota , Kelvin Cunha , Emanoel dos Santos , Fábio Papais , Francisco Filho , Thales Bezerra , Erico Medeiros , Paulo Borba , Tsang Ing Ren

Although deep face recognition has achieved impressive progress in recent years, controversy has arisen regarding discrimination based on skin tone, questioning their deployment into real-world scenarios. In this paper, we aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Mei Wang , Yaobin Zhang , Weihong Deng

Image generation is a prevailing technique for clinical data augmentation for advancing diagnostic accuracy and reducing healthcare disparities. Diffusion Model (DM) has become a leading method in generating synthetic medical images, but it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Ruichen Zhang , Yuguang Yao , Zhen Tan , Zhiming Li , Pan Wang , Huan Liu , Jingtong Hu , Sijia Liu , Tianlong Chen

Skin diseases can arise from infections, allergies, genetic factors, autoimmune disorders, hormonal imbalances, or environmental triggers such as sun damage and pollution. Some skin diseases, such as Actinic Keratosis and Psoriasis, can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Fahud Ahmmed , Md. Zaheer Raihan , Kamnur Nahar , D. M. Asadujjaman , Md. Mahfujur Rahman , Abdullah Tamim

Fairness is crucial when training a deep-learning discriminative model, especially in the facial domain. Models tend to correlate specific characteristics (such as age and skin color) with unrelated attributes (downstream tasks), resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Moreno D'Incà , Christos Tzelepis , Ioannis Patras , Nicu Sebe

This study evaluates the reliability of two deep learning models for skin cancer detection, focusing on their explainability and fairness. Using the HAM10000 dataset of dermatoscopic images, the research assesses two convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-09 Tanish Jain

Accurate skin cancer diagnosis is vital for early treatment and improved patient outcomes. Deep learning (DL) models have shown promise in automating skin cancer classification, yet challenges remain due to data scarcity and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Hamzeh Asgharnezhad , Pegah Tabarisaadi , Abbas Khosravi , Roohallah Alizadehsani , U. Rajendra Acharya

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Asif Newaz , Masum Mushfiq Ishti , A Z M Ashraful Azam , Asif Ur Rahman Adib

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation in computational pathology remains challenging due to scarce pixel-level annotations and unreliable pseudo-label supervision. We propose UniSemAlign, a dual-modal semantic alignment framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Le-Van Thai , Tien Dat Nguyen , Hoai Nhan Pham , Lan Anh Dinh Thi , Duy-Dong Nguyen , Ngoc Lam Quang Bui

Despite the recent success in applying supervised deep learning to medical imaging tasks, the problem of obtaining large and diverse expert-annotated datasets required for the development of high performant models remains particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Amirata Ghorbani , Vivek Natarajan , David Coz , Yuan Liu

State-of-the-art deep learning approaches for skin lesion recognition often require pretraining on larger and more varied datasets, to overcome the generalization limitations derived from the reduced size of the skin lesion imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Kirill Sirotkin , Marcos Escudero-Viñolo , Pablo Carballeira , Juan Carlos SanMiguel

Neural-network-based diagnosis from dermatoscopic images is increasingly used for clinical decision support, yet studies report performance disparities across skin tones. Fairness auditing of these models is limited by the lack of reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Marin Benčević , Krešimir Romić , Ivana Hartmann Tolić , Irena Galić