# The Fast and Accurate Approach to Detection and Segmentation of Melanoma Skin Cancer using Fine-tuned Yolov3 and SegNet Based on Deep Transfer Learning

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05167 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.05167/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 14 of its 50 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 11 Oct 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 14 of 14)

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- [DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1606.00915/) (2016)
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- [UNet++: A Nested U-Net Architecture for Medical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.10165/) (2018)
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- [Recurrent Residual Convolutional Neural Network based on U-Net (R2U-Net) for Medical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.06955/) (2018)
- [Bi-Directional ConvLSTM U-Net with Densley Connected Convolutions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.00166/) (2019)
- [An Overview of Melanoma Detection in Dermoscopy Images Using Image Processing and Machine Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1601.07843/) (2016)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [The Impact of Lesion Focus on the Performance of AI-Based Melanoma Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.00355/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Melanoma is one of the most serious skin cancers that can occur in any part of the human skin. Early diagnosis of melanoma lesions will significantly increase their chances of being cured. Improving melanoma segmentation will help doctors or surgical robots remove the lesion more accurately from body parts. Recently, the learning-based segmentation methods achieved desired results in image segmentation compared to traditional algorithms. This study proposes a new approach to improve melanoma skin lesions detection and segmentation by defining a two-step pipeline based on deep learning models. Our methods were evaluated on ISIC 2018 (Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection Challenge Dataset) well-known dataset. The proposed methods consist of two main parts for real-time detection of lesion location and segmentation. In the detection section, the location of the skin lesion is precisely detected by the fine-tuned You Only Look Once version 3 (F-YOLOv3) and then fed into the fine-tuned Segmentation Network (F-SegNet). Skin lesion localization helps to reduce the unnecessary calculation of whole images for segmentation. The results show that our proposed F-YOLOv3 performs better at 96% in mean Average Precision (mAP). Compared to state-of-the-art segmentation approaches, our F-SegNet achieves higher performance with 95.16% accuracy.