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Skin cancer is a fatal manifestation of cancer. Unrepaired deoxyribo-nucleic acid (DNA) in skin cells, causes genetic defects in the skin and leads to skin cancer. To deal with lethal mortality rates coupled with skyrocketing costs of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Sanya Sinha , Nilay Gupta

As the application of deep learning in dermatology continues to grow, the recognition of melanoma has garnered significant attention, demonstrating potential for improving diagnostic accuracy. Despite advancements in image classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Rujosh Polma , Krishnan Menon Iyer

Prior skin image datasets have not addressed patient-level information obtained from multiple skin lesions from the same patient. Though artificial intelligence classification algorithms have achieved expert-level performance in controlled…

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

Understanding the appropriate skin layer thickness in wounded sites is an important tool to move forward on wound healing practices and treatment protocols. Methods to measure depth often are invasive and less specific. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Devakumar GR , JB Kaarthikeyan , Dominic Immanuel T , Sheena Christabel Pravin

At present, cancer is one of the most important health issues in the world. Because early detection and appropriate treatment in cancer are very effective in the recovery and survival of patients, image processing as a diagnostic tool can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Reza Zare , Arash Pourkazemi

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

State-of-the-art deep learning approaches for skin lesion recognition often require pretraining on larger and more varied datasets, to overcome the generalization limitations derived from the reduced size of the skin lesion imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Kirill Sirotkin , Marcos Escudero-Viñolo , Pablo Carballeira , Juan Carlos SanMiguel

Skin Cancer is one of the most deathful of all the cancers. It is bound to spread to different parts of the body on the off chance that it is not analyzed and treated at the beginning time. It is mostly because of the abnormal growth of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Rishu Garg , Saumil Maheshwari , Anupam Shukla

Deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) models have been widely explored for skin disease diagnosis and some of them have achieved the diagnostic outcomes comparable or even superior to those of dermatologists. However, broad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Peng Yao , Shuwei Shen , Mengjuan Xu , Peng Liu , Fan Zhang , Jinyu Xing , Pengfei Shao , Benjamin Kaffenberger , Ronald X. Xu

Early detection of melanoma is difficult for the human eye but a crucial step towards reducing its death rate. Computerized detection of these melanoma and other skin lesions is necessary. The central research question in this paper is "How…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Beril Sirmacek , Max Kivits

Melanoma skin cancer is one of the most dangerous and life-threatening cancer. Exposure to ultraviolet rays may damage the skin cell's DNA, which causes melanoma skin cancer. However, it is difficult to detect and classify melanoma and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 N. I. Md. Ashafuddula , Rafiqul Islam

Automated brain lesions detection is an important and very challenging clinical diagnostic task because the lesions have different sizes, shapes, contrasts, and locations. Deep Learning recently has shown promising progress in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Mina Rezaei , Haojin Yang , Christoph Meinel

Melanoma is the most severe type of skin cancer due to its ability to cause metastasis. It is more common in black people, often affecting acral regions: palms, soles, and nails. Deep neural networks have shown tremendous potential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Luana Barros , Levy Chaves , Sandra Avila

Melanoma is the most lethal form of skin cancer, with an increasing incidence rate worldwide. Analyzing histological images of melanoma by localizing and classifying tissues and cell nuclei is considered the gold standard method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Nima Torbati , Anastasia Meshcheryakova , Ramona Woitek , Sepideh Hatamikia , Diana Mechtcheriakova , Amirreza Mahbod

In recent years, large strides have been taken in developing machine learning methods for dermatological applications, supported in part by the success of deep learning (DL). To date, diagnosing diseases from images is one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Raluca Jalaboi , Ole Winther , Alfiia Galimzianova

Automatic melanoma segmentation is essential for early skin cancer detection, yet challenges arise from the heterogeneity of melanoma, as well as interfering factors like blurred boundaries, low contrast, and imaging artifacts. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Zhuoyi Fang , Jiajia Liu , Kexuan Shi , Qiang Han

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

The presence of certain clinical dermoscopic features within a skin lesion may indicate melanoma, and automatically detecting these features may lead to more quantitative and reproducible diagnoses. We reformulate the task of classifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Jeremy Kawahara , Ghassan Hamarneh

Melanoma, one of the deadliest types of skin cancer, accounts for thousands of fatalities globally. The bluish, blue-whitish, or blue-white veil (BWV) is a critical feature for diagnosing melanoma, yet research into detecting BWV in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 M. A. Rasel , Sameem Abdul Kareem , Zhenli Kwan , Shin Shen Yong , Unaizah Obaidellah