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Segmenting skin lesions from dermoscopic images is essential for diagnosing skin cancer. But the automatic segmentation of these lesions is complicated due to the poor contrast between the background and the lesion, image artifacts, and…
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A Superpixel Segmentation Based Technique for Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Detection
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