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This report describes our submission to the ISIC 2017 Challenge in Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection. We have participated in the Part 3: Lesion Classification with a system for automatic diagnosis of nevus, melanoma and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Iván González Díaz

We introduce a new version of deep state-space models (DSSMs) that combines a recurrent neural network with a state-space framework to forecast time series data. The model estimates the observed series as functions of latent variables that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-20 Haoxuan Wu , David S. Matteson , Martin T. Wells

Skin lesions are conditions that appear on a patient due to many different reasons. One of these can be because of an abnormal growth in skin tissue, defined as cancer. This disease plagues more than 14.1 million patients and had been the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Danilo Barros Mendes , Nilton Correia da Silva

Black-box deep learning approaches have showcased significant potential in the realm of medical image analysis. However, the stringent trustworthiness requirements intrinsic to the medical field have catalyzed research into the utilization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yequan Bie , Luyang Luo , Hao Chen

Skin cancer is a global health concern, necessitating early and accurate diagnosis for improved patient outcomes. This study introduces a groundbreaking approach to skin cancer classification, employing the Vision Transformer, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-11 Galib Muhammad Shahriar Himel , Md. Masudul Islam , Kh Abdullah Al-Aff , Shams Ibne Karim , Md. Kabir Uddin Sikder

Generative models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) play an increasingly important role in medical image analysis. The latent spaces of these models often show semantically meaningful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-21 Julian Schön , Raghavendra Selvan , Jens Petersen

World model-based policy evaluation is a practical proxy for testing real-world robot control by rolling out candidate actions in action-conditioned video diffusion models. As these models increasingly adopt latent diffusion modeling (LDM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Nilaksh , Saurav Jha , Artem Zholus , Sarath Chandar

Skin cancer is the most common malignancy in the world. Automated skin cancer detection would significantly improve early detection rates and prevent deaths. To help with this aim, a number of datasets have been released which can be used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Michael Luke Battle , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Andrew Stephen McGough

Melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer, and early detection can significantly increase survival rates and prevent cancer spread. However, developing reliable automated detection techniques is difficult due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 SangHyuk Kim , Edward Gaibor , Daniel Haehn

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…

This study addresses critical gaps in automated lymphoma segmentation from PET/CT images, focusing on issues often overlooked in existing literature. While deep learning has been applied for lymphoma lesion segmentation, few studies…

In dermoscopic images, which allow visualization of surface skin structures not visible to the naked eye, lesion shape offers vital insights into skin diseases. In clinically practiced methods, asymmetric lesion shape is one of the criteria…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 M. A. Rasel , Sameem Abdul Kareem , Zhenli Kwan , Nik Aimee Azizah Faheem , Winn Hui Han , Rebecca Kai Jan Choong , Shin Shen Yong , Unaizah Obaidellah

Deep CNNs have been pushing the frontier of visual recognition over past years. Besides recognition accuracy, strong demands in understanding deep CNNs in the research community motivate developments of tools to dissect pre-trained models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Bangjie Yin , Luan Tran , Haoxiang Li , Xiaohui Shen , Xiaoming Liu

Automated region of interest detection in histopathological image analysis is a challenging and important topic with tremendous potential impact on clinical practice. The deep-learning methods used in computational pathology may help us to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Yi Cui , Yao Li , Jayson R. Miedema , Sharon N. Edmiston , Sherif Farag , J. S. Marron , Nancy E. Thomas

The clinical diagnosis of skin lesion involves the analysis of dermoscopic and clinical modalities. Dermoscopic images provide a detailed view of the surface structures whereas clinical images offer a complementary macroscopic information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Hao Wang , Euijoon Ahn , Lei Bi , Jinman Kim

The aim of this work is to propose an ensemble of descriptors for Melanoma Classification, whose performance has been evaluated on validation and test datasets of the melanoma challenge 2018. The system proposed here achieves a strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Loris Nanni , Alessandra Lumini , Stefano Ghidoni

Skin cancer is one of the most prevalent and potentially life-threatening diseases worldwide, necessitating early and accurate diagnosis to improve patient outcomes. Conventional diagnostic methods, reliant on clinical expertise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Mirza Ahsan Ullah , Tehseen Zia

We present a novel methodology for integrating high resolution longitudinal data with the dynamic prediction capabilities of survival models. The aim is two-fold: to improve the predictive power while maintaining interpretability of the…

Applications · Statistics 2024-03-07 Giacomo Lancia , Meri Varkila , Olaf Cremer , Cristian Spitoni

Skin cancer is one of the most prevalent and deadly forms of cancer worldwide, highlighting the critical importance of early detection and diagnosis in improving patient outcomes. Deep learning (DL) has shown significant promise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Runhao Liu , Ziming Chen , Guangzhen Yao , Peng Zhang

The success of deep neural nets heavily relies on their ability to encode complex relations between their input and their output. While this property serves to fit the training data well, it also obscures the mechanism that drives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Itai Gat , Guy Lorberbom , Idan Schwartz , Tamir Hazan