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Cancer disease is one of the leading causes of death all over the world. Breast cancer, which is a common cancer disease especially in women, is quite common. The most important tool used for early detection of this cancer type, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-11 Ali Narin

Convolutional Neural Networks have demonstrated dermatologist-level performance in the classification of melanoma from skin lesion images, but prediction irregularities due to biases seen within the training data are an issue that should be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Peter J. Bevan , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

Deep neural networks have demonstrated promising performance on image recognition tasks. However, they may heavily rely on confounding factors, using irrelevant artifacts or bias within the dataset as the cue to improve performance. When a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Siyuan Yan , Zhen Yu , Xuelin Zhang , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Shekhar S. Chandra , Monika Janda , Peter Soyer , Zongyuan Ge

Skin lesions are classified in benign or malignant. Among the malignant, melanoma is a very aggressive cancer and the major cause of deaths. So, early diagnosis of skin cancer is very desired. In the last few years, there is a growing…

Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer. Specifically, melanoma is the cause of 75% of skin cancer deaths, although it is the least common skin cancer. Better detection of melanoma could have a positive impact on millions of people.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Chengdong Yao

With recent advancements in the development of artificial intelligence applications using theories and algorithms in machine learning, many accurate models can be created to train and predict on given datasets. With the realization of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Pei Xi , Lin

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

Early detection of melanoma, a potentially lethal type of skin cancer with high prevalence worldwide, improves patient prognosis. In retrospective studies, artificial intelligence (AI) has proven to be helpful for enhancing melanoma…

The ability to accurately estimate risk of developing breast cancer would be invaluable for clinical decision-making. One promising new approach is to integrate image-based risk models based on deep neural networks. However, one must take…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Yue Liu , Hossein Azizpour , Fredrik Strand , Kevin Smith

Motivation: Tumor classification using Imaging Mass Spectrometry (IMS) data has a high potential for future applications in pathology. Due to the complexity and size of the data, automated feature extraction and classification steps are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-28 Jens Behrmann , Christian Etmann , Tobias Boskamp , Rita Casadonte , Jörg Kriegsmann , Peter Maass

Access to dermatological care is a major issue, with an estimated 3 billion people lacking access to care globally. Artificial intelligence (AI) may aid in triaging skin diseases. However, most AI models have not been rigorously assessed on…

Skin Cancer is one of the most deathful of all the cancers. It is bound to spread to different parts of the body on the off chance that it is not analyzed and treated at the beginning time. It is mostly because of the abnormal growth of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Rishu Garg , Saumil Maheshwari , Anupam Shukla

The initial assessment of skin lesions is typically based on dermoscopic images. As this is a difficult and time-consuming task, machine learning methods using dermoscopic images have been proposed to assist human experts. Other approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Nils Gessert , Marcel Bengs , Alexander Schlaefer

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

Skin diseases, such as skin cancer, are a significant public health issue, and early diagnosis is crucial for effective treatment. Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms have the potential to assist in triaging benign vs malignant skin…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Nusrat Munia , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

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

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

This study focuses on analyzing dermoscopy images to determine the depth of melanomas, which is a critical factor in diagnosing and treating skin cancer. The Breslow depth, measured from the top of the granular layer to the deepest point of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Miguel Nogales , Begoña Acha , Fernando Alarcón , José Pereyra , Carmen Serrano

Artificial intelligence (AI) models trained using medical images for clinical tasks often exhibit bias in the form of disparities in performance between subgroups. Since not all sources of biases in real-world medical imaging data are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Emma A. M. Stanley , Raissa Souza , Anthony Winder , Vedant Gulve , Kimberly Amador , Matthias Wilms , Nils D. Forkert

One of the more significant obstacles in classification of skin cancer is the presence of artifacts. This paper investigates the effect of dark corner artifacts, which result from the use of dermoscopes, on the performance of a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Samuel William Pewton , Bill Cassidy , Connah Kendrick , Moi Hoon Yap