Enhanced Dermatology Image Quality Assessment via Cross-Domain Training

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Main Authors: Montilla, Ignacio Hernández, Medela, Alfonso, Pasquali, Paola, Aguilar, Andy, Mac Carthy, Taig, Fernández, Gerardo, Martorell, Antonio, Onieva, Enrique
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author Montilla, Ignacio Hernández
Medela, Alfonso
Pasquali, Paola
Aguilar, Andy
Mac Carthy, Taig
Fernández, Gerardo
Martorell, Antonio
Onieva, Enrique
author_facet Montilla, Ignacio Hernández
Medela, Alfonso
Pasquali, Paola
Aguilar, Andy
Mac Carthy, Taig
Fernández, Gerardo
Martorell, Antonio
Onieva, Enrique
contents Teledermatology has become a widely accepted communication method in daily clinical practice, enabling remote care while showing strong agreement with in-person visits. Poor image quality remains an unsolved problem in teledermatology and is a major concern to practitioners, as bad-quality images reduce the usefulness of the remote consultation process. However, research on Image Quality Assessment (IQA) in dermatology is sparse, and does not leverage the latest advances in non-dermatology IQA, such as using larger image databases with ratings from large groups of human observers. In this work, we propose cross-domain training of IQA models, combining dermatology and non-dermatology IQA datasets. For this purpose, we created a novel dermatology IQA database, Legit.Health-DIQA-Artificial, using dermatology images from several sources and having them annotated by a group of human observers. We demonstrate that cross-domain training yields optimal performance across domains and overcomes one of the biggest limitations in dermatology IQA, which is the small scale of data, and leads to models trained on a larger pool of image distortions, resulting in a better management of image quality in the teledermatology process.
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spellingShingle Enhanced Dermatology Image Quality Assessment via Cross-Domain Training
Montilla, Ignacio Hernández
Medela, Alfonso
Pasquali, Paola
Aguilar, Andy
Mac Carthy, Taig
Fernández, Gerardo
Martorell, Antonio
Onieva, Enrique
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
Teledermatology has become a widely accepted communication method in daily clinical practice, enabling remote care while showing strong agreement with in-person visits. Poor image quality remains an unsolved problem in teledermatology and is a major concern to practitioners, as bad-quality images reduce the usefulness of the remote consultation process. However, research on Image Quality Assessment (IQA) in dermatology is sparse, and does not leverage the latest advances in non-dermatology IQA, such as using larger image databases with ratings from large groups of human observers. In this work, we propose cross-domain training of IQA models, combining dermatology and non-dermatology IQA datasets. For this purpose, we created a novel dermatology IQA database, Legit.Health-DIQA-Artificial, using dermatology images from several sources and having them annotated by a group of human observers. We demonstrate that cross-domain training yields optimal performance across domains and overcomes one of the biggest limitations in dermatology IQA, which is the small scale of data, and leads to models trained on a larger pool of image distortions, resulting in a better management of image quality in the teledermatology process.
title Enhanced Dermatology Image Quality Assessment via Cross-Domain Training
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16116