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Segmentation of skin lesions is considered as an important step in computer aided diagnosis (CAD) for automated melanoma diagnosis. In recent years, segmentation methods based on fully convolutional networks (FCN) have achieved great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Lei Bi , Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

Dermatological classification algorithms developed without sufficiently diverse training data may generalize poorly across populations. While intentional data collection and annotation offer the best means for improving representation, new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Luke W. Sagers , James A. Diao , Matthew Groh , Pranav Rajpurkar , Adewole S. Adamson , Arjun K. Manrai

Addressing fairness in lesion classification from dermatological images is crucial due to variations in how skin diseases manifest across skin tones. However, the absence of skin tone labels in public datasets hinders building a fair…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Thorsten Kalb , Kaisar Kushibar , Celia Cintas , Karim Lekadir , Oliver Diaz , Richard Osuala

Medical Image Segmentation is a useful application for medical image analysis including detecting diseases and abnormalities in imaging modalities such as MRI, CT etc. Deep learning has proven to be promising for this task but usually has a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Soham Bhosale , Arjun Krishna , Ge Wang , Klaus Mueller

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

Skin cancer is one of the most prevalent forms of human cancer. It is recognized mainly visually, beginning with clinical screening and continuing with the dermoscopic examination, histological assessment, and specimen collection. Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Ghanta Sai Krishna , Kundrapu Supriya , Mallikharjuna Rao K , Meetiksha Sorgile

Graph alignment, which aims at identifying corresponding entities across multiple networks, has been widely applied in various domains. As the graphs to be aligned are usually constructed from different sources, the inconsistency issues of…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Jianheng Tang , Weiqi Zhang , Jiajin Li , Kangfei Zhao , Fugee Tsung , Jia Li

Multi-label image classification is a prediction task that aims to identify more than one label from a given image. This paper considers the semantic consistency of the latent space between the visual patch and linguistic label domains and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Miaoge Li , Dongsheng Wang , Xinyang Liu , Zequn Zeng , Ruiying Lu , Bo Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

Automatic skin lesion classification from dermoscopy images is important for the early diagnosis of skin diseases such as melanoma. Class imbalance in skin lesion datasets, notably the defects in the representation of malignant(cancerous)…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-19 Ariful Islam Khandaker , Abdullah Al Shafi , Mohiuddin Ahmad

Skin tone recognition and generation play important roles in model fairness, healthcare, and generative AI, yet they remain challenging due to the lack of comprehensive datasets and robust methodologies. Compared to other human image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haoming Lu

Detecting novel anomalies in medical imaging is challenging due to the limited availability of labeled data for rare abnormalities, which often display high variability and subtlety. This challenge is further compounded when small abnormal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Jingkun Chen , Guang Yang , Xiao Zhang , Jingchao Peng , Tianlu Zhang , Jianguo Zhang , Jungong Han , Vicente Grau

This paper introduces the three-branch Dual Attention-Guided Compact Bilinear CNN (DACB-Net) by focusing on learning from disease-specific regions to enhance accuracy and alignment. A global branch compensates for lost discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Belal Ahmad , Mohd Usama , Tanvir Ahmad , Adnan Saeed , Shabnam Khatoon , Min Chen

Despite recent advances in deep generative modeling, skin lesion classification systems remain constrained by the limited availability of large, diverse, and well-annotated clinical datasets, resulting in class imbalance between benign and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Stathis Galanakis , Alexandros Koliousis , Stefanos Zafeiriou

In practical sleep stage classification, a key challenge is the variability of EEG data across different subjects and environments. Differences in physiology, age, health status, and recording conditions can lead to domain shifts between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Siyuan Zhao , Chenyu Liu , Yi Ding , Xinliang Zhou

Deep learning models often inherit biases from their training data. While fairness across gender and ethnicity is well-studied, fine-grained skin tone analysis remains a challenge due to the lack of granular, annotated datasets. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Vitor Pereira Matias , Márcus Vinícius Lobo Costa , João Batista Neto , Tiago Novello de Brito

Deep learning is becoming increasingly ubiquitous in medical research and applications while involving sensitive information and even critical diagnosis decisions. Researchers observe a significant performance disparity among subgroups with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Zikang Xu , Shang Zhao , Quan Quan , Qingsong Yao , S. Kevin Zhou

Deep learning has played a major role in the interpretation of dermoscopic images for detecting skin defects and abnormalities. However, current deep learning solutions for dermatological lesion analysis are typically limited in providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Gun-Hee Lee , Han-Bin Ko , Seong-Whan Lee

The segmentation of skin lesions is a crucial task in clinical decision support systems for the computer aided diagnosis of skin lesions. Although deep learning-based approaches have improved segmentation performance, these models are often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Kumar Abhishek , Ghassan Hamarneh

Lesion diagnosis of skin lesions is a very challenging task due to high inter-class similarities and intra-class variations in terms of color, size, site and appearance among different skin lesions. With the emergence of computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Manu Goyal , Jiahua Ng , Moi Hoon Yap

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