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Automatic skin lesion segmentation using deep fully convolutional networks with jaccard distance.

Yuan, Yading, Chao, Ming, Lo, Yeh-Chi·2017·IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Abstract

Automatic skin lesion segmentation in dermoscopic images is a challenging task due to the low contrast between lesion and the surrounding skin, the irregular and fuzzy lesion borders, the existence of various artifacts, and various imaging acquisition conditions. In this paper, we present a fully automatic method for skin lesion segmentation by leveraging 19-layer deep convolutional neural networks that is trained end-to-end and does not rely on prior knowledge of the data. We propose a set of strategies to ensure effective and efficient learning with limited training data. Furthermore, we design a novel loss function based on Jaccard distance to eliminate the need of sample re-weighting, a typical procedure when using cross entropy as the loss function for image segmentation due to the strong imbalance between the number of foreground and background pixels. We evaluated the effectiveness, efficiency, as well as the generalization capability of the proposed framework on two publicly available databases. One is from ISBI 2016 skin lesion analysis towards melanoma detection challenge, and the other is the PH2 database. Experimental results showed that the proposed method outperformed other state-of-the-art algorithms on these two databases. Our method is general enough and only needs minimum pre- and post-processing, which allows its adoption in a variety of medical image segmentation tasks.

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Authors
Yuan, Y., Chao, M., & Lo, Y.-C.
Affiliations
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
Venue
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Published
2017-09
Volume
36
Issue
9
Pages
1876-1886
ISSN
  • 0278-0062 (ISSN-L)
  • 1558-254X
OpenAlex
W2607363228
Cited by
687
References
49
Citations by year
2026: 32 · 2025: 46 · 2024: 77 · 2023: 88 · 2022: 107 · 2021: 108 · 2020: 89 · 2019: 81 · 2018: 48 · 2017: 9
FWCI
27.35
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › AI in cancer detection
Keywords
skin lesion segmentation, dermoscopic images, fully convolutional network, class imbalance, end-to-end learning, limited training data, melanoma detection, medical image segmentation
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Humans, Melanoma, Skin, Artifacts, Neural Networks, Computer, Dermoscopy

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