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Deep Learning approaches in dermatological image classification have shown promising results, yet the field faces significant methodological challenges that impede proper evaluation. This paper presents a dual contribution: first, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-05 Łukasz Miętkiewicz , Leon Ciechanowski , Dariusz Jemielniak

Melanoma, a malignant form of skin cancer is very threatening to life. Diagnosis of melanoma at an earlier stage is highly needed as it has a very high cure rate. Benign and malignant forms of skin cancer can be detected by analyzing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-14 P. Mirunalini , Aravindan Chandrabose , Vignesh Gokul , S. M. Jaisakthi

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

The skin, as the largest organ of the human body, is vulnerable to a diverse array of conditions collectively known as skin lesions, which encompass various dermatoses. Diagnosing these lesions presents significant challenges for medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Sauda Adiv Hanum , Ashim Dey , Muhammad Ashad Kabir

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer with the most rapidly increasing incidence. Early detection of melanoma using dermoscopy images significantly increases patients' survival rate. However, accurately classifying skin lesions by eye,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Xiaoxiao Li , Junyan Wu , Eric Z. Chen , Hongda Jiang

The surge in developing deep learning models for diagnosing skin lesions through image analysis is notable, yet their clinical black faces challenges. Current dermatology AI models have limitations: limited number of possible diagnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Deval Mehta , Brigid Betz-Stablein , Toan D Nguyen , Yaniv Gal , Adrian Bowling , Martin Haskett , Maithili Sashindranath , Paul Bonnington , Victoria Mar , H Peter Soyer , Zongyuan Ge

Melanoma is the most lethal form of skin cancer, and early detection is critical for improving patient outcomes. Although dermoscopy combined with deep learning has advanced automated skin-lesion analysis, progress is hindered by limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Pei-Yu Lin , Yidan Shen , Neville Mathew , Renjie Hu , Siyu Huang , Courtney M. Queen , Cameron E. West , Ana Ciurea , George Zouridakis

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

Skin lesion is a severe disease in world-wide extent. Early detection of melanoma in dermoscopy images significantly increases the survival rate. However, the accurate recognition of melanoma is extremely challenging due to the following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Yuexiang Li , Linlin Shen

Automatic skin lesion classification from dermoscopy images is important for the early diagnosis of skin diseases such as melanoma. Class imbalance in skin lesion datasets, notably the defects in the representation of malignant(cancerous)…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-19 Ariful Islam Khandaker , Abdullah Al Shafi , Mohiuddin Ahmad

Skin cancer can be life-threatening if not diagnosed early, a prevalent yet preventable disease. Globally, skin cancer is perceived among the finest prevailing cancers and millions of people are diagnosed each year. For the allotment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Mohammad Tahmid Noor , B. M. Shahria Alam , Tasmiah Rahman Orpa , Shaila Afroz Anika , Mahjabin Tasnim Samiha , Fahad Ahammed

Recent advances in deep learning and on-device inference could transform routine screening for skin cancers. Along with the anticipated benefits of this technology, potential dangers arise from unforeseen and inherent biases. A significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ko Watanabe , Stanislav Frolov , Aya Hassan , David Dembinsky , Adriano Lucieri , Andreas Dengel

In this paper we present the methods of our submission to the ISIC 2018 challenge for skin lesion diagnosis (Task 3). The dataset consists of 10000 images with seven image-level classes to be distinguished by an automated algorithm. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Nils Gessert , Thilo Sentker , Frederic Madesta , Rüdiger Schmitz , Helge Kniep , Ivo Baltruschat , René Werner , Alexander Schlaefer

Deep learning techniques have proven high accuracy for identifying melanoma in digitised dermoscopic images. A strength is that these methods are not constrained by features that are pre-defined by human semantics. A down-side is that it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Kyle Young , Gareth Booth , Becks Simpson , Reuben Dutton , Sally Shrapnel

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

Segmentation of skin lesions is considered as an important step in computer aided diagnosis (CAD) for automated melanoma diagnosis. In recent years, segmentation methods based on fully convolutional networks (FCN) have achieved great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Lei Bi , Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

Skin cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide and early detection is critical for effective treatment. However, current AI diagnostic tools are often trained on datasets dominated by lighter skin tones, leading to reduced accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Areez Muhammed Shabu , Mohammad Samar Ansari , Asra Aslam

Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms using deep learning have advanced the classification of skin disease images; however these algorithms have been mostly applied "in silico" and not validated clinically. Most dermatology AI algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Roxana Daneshjou , Carrie Kovarik , Justin M Ko

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

Skin conditions are reported the 4th leading cause of nonfatal disease burden worldwide. However, given the colossal spectrum of skin disorders defined clinically and shortage in dermatology expertise, diagnosing skin conditions in a timely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Junyan Wu , Hao Jiang , Xiaowei Ding , Anudeep Konda , Jin Han , Yang Zhang , Qian Li