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University of Waterloo skin cancer database
The dataset is maintained by VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING LAB, University of Waterloo. The images of the dataset were extracted from the public databases DermIS and DermQuest, along with manual segmentations of the lesions.
The dataset was used in the following journal publication. [1] Glaister, J., A. Wong, and D. A. Clausi, "Automatic segmentation of skin lesions from dermatological photographs using a joint probabilistic texture distinctiveness approach", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering [2] Amelard, R., J. Glaister, A. Wong, and D. A. Clausi, "High-level intuitive features (HLIFs) for intuitive skin lesion descriptionpdf", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 62, issue 3, pp. 820-831, October, 2015. [3] Glaister, J., R. Amelard, A. Wong, and D. A. Clausi, "MSIM: Multi-Stage Illumination Modeling of Dermatological Photographs for Illumination-Corrected Skin Lesion Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 60, issue 7, pp. 1873 - 1883, November, 2013.
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
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| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
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| Lesion Segmentation | University of Waterloo skin cancer database | DTP-Net Dice score 0.884 ±0.100 | DTP-Net: A convolutional neural network model to predict... | VipinBioLab/DTP-Net | 5 | Compare |
| Skin Lesion Segmentation | University of Waterloo skin cancer database | DTP-Net Dice Score 0.884 ±0.100 | DTP-Net: A convolutional neural network model to predict... | VipinBioLab/DTP-Net | 5 | Compare |
| Local Color Enhancement | University of Waterloo skin cancer database | EMST Dice (Average) 0.81 ± 0.17 | An EfficientNet-based modified sigmoid transform for... | VipinBioLab/EMST | 3 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
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Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
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Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
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Variants archive 2025-07-28
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