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Recent advancements in skin lesion classification models have significantly improved accuracy, with some models even surpassing dermatologists' diagnostic performance. However, in medical practice, distrust in AI models remains a challenge.…

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This paper proposes a modified Topological Data Analysis model for skin images preprocessing and enhancements. The skin lesion dataset HAM10000 used with the intention of identifying the important objects in relevant regions of the images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Hong Cheng , Rebekah Leamons , Ahmad Al Shami

Skin cancer is among the most common cancer types. Dermoscopic image analysis improves the diagnostic accuracy for detection of malignant melanoma and other pigmented skin lesions when compared to unaided visual inspection. Hence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Amirreza Mahbod , Gerald Schaefer , Chunliang Wang , Rupert Ecker , Georg Dorffner , Isabella Ellinger

Skin cancer can be identified by dermoscopic examination and ocular inspection, but early detection significantly increases survival chances. Artificial intelligence (AI), using annotated skin images and Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Abdullah Al Shafi , Abdul Muntakim , Pintu Chandra Shill , Rowzatul Zannat , Abdullah Al-Amin

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

Effective recognition of acute and difficult-to-heal wounds is a necessary step in wound diagnosis. An efficient classification model can help wound specialists classify wound types with less financial and time costs and also help in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ramin Mousa , Hadis Taherinia , Khabiba Abdiyeva , Amir Ali Bengari , Mohammadmahdi Vahediahmar

Automated skin lesion analysis is very crucial in clinical practice, as skin cancer is among the most common human malignancy. Existing approaches with deep learning have achieved remarkable performance on this challenging task, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Xueying Shi , Qi Dou , Cheng Xue , Jing Qin , Hao Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng

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

Skin cancer, the most common human malignancy, is primarily diagnosed visually by physicians [1]. Classification with an automated method like CNN [2, 3] shows potential for challenging tasks [1]. By now, the deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Wenhao Zhang , Liangcai Gao , Runtao Liu

While deep learning-based computer-aided diagnosis for skin lesion image analysis is approaching dermatologists' performance levels, there are several works showing that incorporating additional features such as shape priors, texture, color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Kumar Abhishek , Ghassan Hamarneh

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved great success in skin lesion classification. A balanced dataset is required to train a good model. However, due to the appearance of different skin lesions in practice, severe or even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Keyu Chen , Di Zhuang , J. Morris Chang

The semantic segmentation of skin lesions is an important and common initial task in the computer aided diagnosis of dermoscopic images. Although deep learning-based approaches have considerably improved the segmentation accuracy, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Kumar Abhishek , Ghassan Hamarneh , Mark S. Drew

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

Over the last decades, the incidence of skin cancer, melanoma and non-melanoma, has increased at a continuous rate. In particular for melanoma, the deadliest type of skin cancer, early detection is important to increase patient prognosis.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-30 Breno Krohling , Pedro B. C. Castro , Andre G. C. Pacheco , Renato A. Krohling

Objective: This work addresses two key problems of skin lesion classification. The first problem is the effective use of high-resolution images with pretrained standard architectures for image classification. The second problem is the high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Nils Gessert , Thilo Sentker , Frederic Madesta , Rüdiger Schmitz , Helge Kniep , Ivo Baltruschat , René Werner , Alexander Schlaefer

Lyme disease which is one of the most common infectious vector-borne diseases manifests itself in most cases with erythema migrans (EM) skin lesions. Recent studies show that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) perform well to identify…

In this paper, we describe our method for the ISIC 2019 Skin Lesion Classification Challenge. The challenge comes with two tasks. For task 1, skin lesions have to be classified based on dermoscopic images. For task 2, dermoscopic images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Nils Gessert , Maximilian Nielsen , Mohsin Shaikh , René Werner , Alexander Schlaefer

In this paper, the effectiveness and capability of convolutional neural networks have been studied in the classification of 8 skin diseases. Different pre-trained state-of-the-art architectures (DenseNet 201, ResNet 152, Inception v3,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Amirreza Rezvantalab , Habib Safigholi , Somayeh Karimijeshni

Skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in the world. Different computer-aided diagnosis systems have been proposed to tackle skin lesion diagnosis, most of them based in deep convolutional neural networks. However, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Leandro M. de Lima , Renato A. Krohling

Dermatological conditions affect 1.9 billion people globally, yet accurate diagnosis remains challenging due to limited specialist availability and complex clinical presentations. Family history significantly influences skin disease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Satya Narayana Panda , Vaishnavi Kukkala , Spandana Iyer