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General-purpose Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), despite their massive scale, often falter in dermatology due to "diffuse attention" - the inability to disentangle subtle pathological lesions from background noise. In this paper, we…

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Large vision-language models (LVLMs) demonstrate strong performance in dermatology; however, evaluating diagnostic reasoning for rare conditions remains largely unexplored. Existing benchmarks focus on common diseases and assess only final…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yang Liu , Jiyao Yang , Hongjin Zhao , Xiaoyong Li , Yanzhe Ji , Xingjian Li , Runmin Jiang , Tianyang Wang , Saeed Anwar , Dongwoo Kim , Yue Yao , Zhenyue Qin , Min Xu

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

The rise of Artificial Intelligence creates great promise in the field of medical discovery, diagnostics and patient management. However, the vast complexity of all medical domains require a more complex approach that combines machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Dimitrios P. Panagoulias , Evridiki Tsoureli-Nikita , Maria Virvou , George A. Tsihrintzis

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated promise on publicly available dermatology benchmarks. However, benchmark performance may not generalize to real-world dermatologic decision-making. To quantify this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Roy Jiang , Hyunjae Kim , Zhenyue Qin , Morten Lee , Margaret MacGibeny , Ailish Hanly , Angela Sadlowski , Shanin Chowdhury , Xuguang Ai , Jeffrey Gehlhausen , Qingyu Chen

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

Skin cancer is a common and fast rising malignancy worldwide. Early detection is critical for improving outcomes. Deep learning models trained on dermoscopic and clinical images can support automated and fast triage. However, many studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Durjoy Dey , Yuhong Yan , Hassan Hajjdiab

This work introduces SkinGenBench, a systematic biomedical imaging benchmark that investigates how preprocessing complexity interacts with generative model choice for synthetic dermoscopic image augmentation and downstream melanoma…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 N. A. Adarsh Pritam , Jeba Shiney O , Sanyam Jain

With over 2 million new cases identified annually, skin cancer is the most prevalent type of cancer globally and the second most common in Bangladesh, following breast cancer. Early detection and treatment are crucial for enhancing patient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-31 Rafiul Islam , Jihad Khan Dipu , Mehedi Hasan Tusar

Computed tomography (CT) and clinical numeric data are essential modalities for cancer evaluation, but building large-scale multimodal training datasets for developing medical foundation models remains challenging due to the structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Daeun Jung , Jaehyeok Jang , Sooyoung Jang , Yu Rang Park

Cancerous skin lesions are one of the most common malignancies detected in humans, and if not detected at an early stage, they can lead to death. Therefore, it is crucial to have access to accurate results early on to optimize the chances…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Daniel Alonso Villanueva Nunez , Yongmin Li

Skin lesion classification is essential for early dermatological diagnosis, yet many existing computer-aided systems rely primarily on dermoscopic images and underutilize the multimodal evidence routinely available in clinical practice. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Phan Nguyen , Dat Cao , Quang Hien Kha , Hien Chu , Minh H. N. Le , Trang Quoc Thao Pham , Nguyen Quoc Khanh Le

Computational pathology, which involves analyzing whole slide images for automated cancer diagnosis, relies on multiple instance learning, where performance depends heavily on the feature extractor and aggregator. Recent Pathology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Conghao Xiong , Hao Chen , Joseph J. Y. Sung

The rapidly emerging field of deep learning-based computational pathology has demonstrated promise in developing objective prognostic models from histology whole slide images. However, most prognostic models are either based on histology or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Richard J. Chen , Ming Y. Lu , Drew F. K. Williamson , Tiffany Y. Chen , Jana Lipkova , Muhammad Shaban , Maha Shady , Mane Williams , Bumjin Joo , Zahra Noor , Faisal Mahmood

Foundation models, large-scale, pre-trained deep-learning models adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks have gained significant interest lately in various deep-learning problems undergoing a paradigm shift with the rise of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Bobby Azad , Reza Azad , Sania Eskandari , Afshin Bozorgpour , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Islem Rekik , Dorit Merhof

Skin cancer is a major public health problem, with over 5 million newly diagnosed cases in the United States each year. Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer, responsible for over 9,000 deaths each year. In this paper, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Balazs Harangi

In the rapidly evolving landscape of medical imaging diagnostics, achieving high accuracy while preserving computational efficiency remains a formidable challenge. This work presents \texttt{DeepMediX}, a groundbreaking, resource-efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Kishore Babu Nampalle , Pradeep Singh , Uppala Vivek Narayan , Balasubramanian Raman

The integration of AI-assisted biomedical image analysis into clinical practice demands AI-generated findings that are not only accurate but also interpretable to clinicians. However, existing biomedical AI models generally lack the ability…

Foundation models (FMs) have shown great promise in medical imaging, but most FMs are trained on unimodal data within isolated domains, such as brain MRI alone. Human aging and disease arise through coordinated biological processes across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Qiangqiang Wu , Grace McIlvain , Zhou Yu , Junhao Wen

Deep learning based automated pathological diagnosis has markedly improved diagnostic efficiency and reduced variability between observers, yet its clinical adoption remains limited by opaque model decisions and a lack of traceable…