Papers › Skin Lesion Segmentation Using Atrous Convolution via DeepLab v3

Skin Lesion Segmentation Using Atrous Convolution via DeepLab v3

24 Jul 2018arXiv:1807.08891archive 2025-07-28

Yujie Wang, Simon Sun, Jahow Yu, Dr. Limin Yu

As melanoma diagnoses increase across the US, automated efforts to identify malignant lesions become increasingly of interest to the research community. Segmentation of dermoscopic images is the first step in this process, thus accuracy is crucial. Although techniques utilizing convolutional neural networks have been used in the past for lesion segmentation, we present a solution employing the recently published DeepLab 3, an atrous convolution method for image segmentation. Although the results produced by this run are not ideal, with a mean Jaccard index of 0.498, we believe that with further adjustments and modifications to the compatibility with the DeepLab code and with training on more powerful processing units, this method may achieve better results in future trials.

PaperPDF

Code

No code repository is listed for this paper in the archive or in Syntology's graph.

Code Syntology ran Syntology

Not run by Syntology. Nothing on this page verifies that the listed code works.

Tasks

Image SegmentationLesion SegmentationSegmentationSemantic SegmentationSkin Lesion Segmentation

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Lesion Segmentation University of Waterloo skin cancer database DeepLabV3+ Dice score 0.883 ±0.108 #2 of 5 Archive leaderboard report

Ranks are positions in the archive's leaderboards as they stood at the 2025-07-28 snapshot. Results published since then are not among these rows, so a rank here is not a current standing.

Methods

CRFDeepLabDense ConnectionsDilated ConvolutionFeedforward Network

Report a problem or propose a change · a person checks every report against the paper or source before anything changes; decisions are listed on /corrections