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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 lesion segmentation plays a crucial role in the computer-aided diagnosis of melanoma. Deep Learning models have shown promise in accurately segmenting skin lesions, but their widespread adoption in real-life clinical settings is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-01 Shankara Narayanan , Sikha OK , Raul Benitez

Melanoma is one of the most serious skin cancers that can occur in any part of the human skin. Early diagnosis of melanoma lesions will significantly increase their chances of being cured. Improving melanoma segmentation will help doctors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Mohamad Taghizadeh , Karim Mohammadi

Deep learning is the current bet for image classification. Its greed for huge amounts of annotated data limits its usage in medical imaging context. In this scenario transfer learning appears as a prominent solution. In this report we aim…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Afonso Menegola , Michel Fornaciali , Ramon Pires , Sandra Avila , Eduardo Valle

The incidence of malignant melanoma continues to increase worldwide. This cancer can strike at any age; it is one of the leading causes of loss of life in young persons. Since this cancer is visible on the skin, it is potentially detectable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-29 Nabin K. Mishra , M. Emre Celebi

Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. Automated skin lesion analysis plays an important role for early detection. Nowadays, the ISIC Archive and the Atlas of Dermoscopy dataset are the most employed skin lesion sources to benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Alceu Bissoto , Michel Fornaciali , Eduardo Valle , Sandra Avila

As one kind of skin cancer, melanoma is very dangerous. Dermoscopy based early detection and recarbonization strategy is critical for melanoma therapy. However, well-trained dermatologists dominant the diagnostic accuracy. In order to solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Hao Chang

Dermatologists often diagnose or rule out early melanoma by evaluating the follow-up dermoscopic images of skin lesions. However, existing algorithms for early melanoma diagnosis are developed using single time-point images of lesions.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-13 Zhen Yu , Jennifer Nguyen , Toan D Nguyen , John Kelly , Catriona Mclean , Paul Bonnington , Lei Zhang , Victoria Mar , Zongyuan Ge

In this paper, we proposed using a hybrid method that utilises deep convolutional and recurrent neural networks for accurate delineation of skin lesion of images supplied with ISBI 2017 lesion segmentation challenge. The proposed method was…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-02 M. Attia , M. Hossny , S. Nahavandi , A. Yazdabadi

Regular mammography screening is essential for early breast cancer detection. Deep learning-based risk prediction methods have sparked interest to adjust screening intervals for high-risk groups. While early methods focused only on current…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Solveig Thrun , Stine Hansen , Zijun Sun , Nele Blum , Suaiba A. Salahuddin , Kristoffer Wickstrøm , Elisabeth Wetzer , Robert Jenssen , Maik Stille , Michael Kampffmeyer

Skin cancer is by far in top-3 of the world's most common cancer. Among different skin cancer types, melanoma is particularly dangerous because of its ability to metastasize. Early detection is the key to success in skin cancer treatment.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Duyen N. T. Le , Hieu X. Le , Lua T. Ngo , Hoan T. Ngo

An approach to lesion recognition is described that for lesion localization uses an ensemble of segmentation techniques and for lesion classification an exhaustive structural analysis. For localization, candidate regions are obtained from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Christoph Rasche

Skin cancer is a serious worldwide health issue, precise and early detection is essential for better patient outcomes and effective treatment. In this research, we use modern deep learning methods and explainable artificial intelligence…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Faysal Mahmud , Md. Mahin Mahfiz , Md. Zobayer Ibna Kabir , Yusha Abdullah

Understanding how a complex machine learning model makes a classification decision is essential for its acceptance in sensitive areas such as health care. Towards this end, we present PatchNet, a method that provides the features indicative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan , Charles Durham , Ali Soylemezoglu , Caroline Uhler

We propose a novel deep learning model for classifying medical images in the setting where there is a large amount of unlabelled medical data available, but labelled data is in limited supply. We consider the specific case of classifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Antonia Creswell , Alison Pouplin , Anil A Bharath

Among the different types of skin cancer, melanoma is considered to be the deadliest and is difficult to treat at advanced stages. Detection of melanoma at earlier stages can lead to reduced mortality rates. Desktop-based computer-aided…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Upender Kalwa , Christopher Legner , Taejoon Kong , Santosh Pandey

Interpretability in machine learning models is important in high-stakes decisions, such as whether to order a biopsy based on a mammographic exam. Mammography poses important challenges that are not present in other computer vision tasks:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Alina Jade Barnett , Fides Regina Schwartz , Chaofan Tao , Chaofan Chen , Yinhao Ren , Joseph Y. Lo , Cynthia Rudin

Cutaneous malignancies demand early detection for favorable outcomes, yet current diagnostics suffer from inter-observer variability and access disparities. While AI shows promise, existing dermatological systems are limited by homogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Sher Khan , Raz Muhammad , Adil Hussain , Muhammad Sajjad , Muhammad Rashid

Convolutional Neural Networks have demonstrated human-level performance in the classification of melanoma and other skin lesions, but evident performance disparities between differing skin tones should be addressed before widespread…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Peter J. Bevan , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

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