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Accurate segmentation of skin lesion from dermoscopic images is a crucial part of computer-aided diagnosis of melanoma. It is challenging due to the fact that dermoscopic images from different patients have non-negligible lesion variation,…

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Early detection of skin cancer, particularly melanoma, is crucial to enable advanced treatment. Due to the rapid growth in the numbers of skin cancers, there is a growing need of computerized analysis for skin lesions. The state-of-the-art…

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Skin lesion segmentation is a crucial method for identifying early skin cancer. In recent years, both convolutional neural network (CNN) and Transformer-based methods have been widely applied. Moreover, combining CNN and Transformer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Shun Zou , Mingya Zhang , Bingjian Fan , Zhengyi Zhou , Xiuguo Zou

Automated skin lesion analysis for simultaneous detection and recognition is still challenging for inter-class homogeneity and intra-class heterogeneity, leading to low generic capability of a Single Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown remarkable progress in medical image segmentation. However, lesion segmentation remains a challenge to state-of-the-art CNN-based algorithms due to the variance in scales and shapes. On the…

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Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning, where accurate boundary delineation is essential for precise lesion localization, organ identification, and quantitative assessment. In recent…

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The accurate segmentation of medical images is critical for various healthcare applications. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), especially Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) like U-Net, have shown remarkable success in medical image…

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Early detection of skin cancer relies on precise segmentation of dermoscopic images of skin lesions. However, this task is challenging due to the irregular shape of the lesion, the lack of sharp borders, and the presence of artefacts such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Shahzaib Iqbal , Muhammad Zeeshan , Mehwish Mehmood , Tariq M. Khan , Imran Razzak

Skin lesion detection in dermoscopic images is essential in the accurate and early diagnosis of skin cancer by a computerized apparatus. Current skin lesion segmentation approaches show poor performance in challenging circumstances such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Eric Granger , Huiyu Zhou

Medical image segmentation faces challenges due to variations in anatomical structures. While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) effectively capture local features, they struggle with modeling long-range dependencies. Transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Lalit Maurya , Honghai Liu , Reyer Zwiggelaar

While CNN-based methods have been the cornerstone of medical image segmentation due to their promising performance and robustness, they suffer from limitations in capturing long-range dependencies. Transformer-based approaches are currently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Reza Azad , Yiwei Jia , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Julien Cohen-Adad , Dorit Merhof

Skin lesion segmentation plays a critical role in the early detection and accurate diagnosis of dermatological conditions. Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have recently gained attention for their exceptional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Afshin Bozorgpour , Yousef Sadegheih , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Reza Azad , Dorit Merhof

Melanoma is caused by the abnormal growth of melanocytes in human skin. Like other cancers, this life-threatening skin cancer can be treated with early diagnosis. To support a diagnosis by automatic skin lesion segmentation, several Fully…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Reza Azad , Maral Zarvani , Dorit Merhof

Accurate lesion detection in computer tomography (CT) slices benefits pathologic organ analysis in the medical diagnosis process. More recently, it has been tackled as an object detection problem using the Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Qingbin Shao , Lijun Gong , Kai Ma , Hualuo Liu , Yefeng Zheng

Skin lesion segmentation is key for early skin cancer detection. Challenges in automatic segmentation from dermoscopic images include variations in color, texture, and artifacts of indistinct lesion boundaries. Deep learning methods like…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Chunyu Yuan , Dongfang Zhao , Sos S. Agaian

The efficacy of deep learning-based Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) methods for skin diseases relies on analyzing multiple data modalities (i.e., clinical+dermoscopic images, and patient metadata) and addressing the challenges of multi-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Yuan Zhang , Yutong Xie , Hu Wang , Jodie C Avery , M Louise Hull , Gustavo Carneiro

Deep learning techniques have shown their superior performance in dermatologist clinical inspection. Nevertheless, melanoma diagnosis is still a challenging task due to the difficulty of incorporating the useful dermatologist clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-03 Xiaohong Wang , Xudong Jiang , Henghui Ding , Yuqian Zhao , Jun Liu

This study introduces an AI-driven skin lesion classification algorithm built on an enhanced Transformer architecture, addressing the challenges of accuracy and robustness in medical image analysis. By integrating a multi-scale feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jiacheng Hu , Yanlin Xiang , Yang Lin , Junliang Du , Hanchao Zhang , Houze Liu

Skin cancer poses a significant public health challenge, necessitating efficient diagnostic tools. We introduce UCM-Net, a novel skin lesion segmentation model combining Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN).…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Chunyu Yuan , Dongfang Zhao , Sos S. Agaian

Current AI-assisted skin image diagnosis has achieved dermatologist-level performance in classifying skin cancer, driven by rapid advancements in deep learning architectures. However, unlike traditional vision tasks, skin images in general…

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