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Deep learning has shown promising results in medical image analysis, however, the lack of very large annotated datasets confines its full potential. Although transfer learning with ImageNet pre-trained classification models can alleviate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Ken C. L. Wong , Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood , Mehdi Moradi

Traditional instance-based model analysis focuses mainly on misclassified instances. However, this approach overlooks the varying difficulty associated with different instances. Ideally, a robust model should recognize and reflect the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Linhao Meng , Stef van den Elzen , Anna Vilanova

Nuclei instance segmentation on histopathology images is of great clinical value for disease analysis. Generally, fully-supervised algorithms for this task require pixel-wise manual annotations, which is especially time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yang Zhou , Yongjian Wu , Zihua Wang , Bingzheng Wei , Maode Lai , Jianzhong Shou , Yubo Fan , Yan Xu

The accuracy and robustness of image classification with supervised deep learning are dependent on the availability of large-scale, annotated training data. However, there is a paucity of annotated data available due to the complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Euijoon Ahn , Ashnil Kumar , Dagan Feng , Michael Fulham , Jinman Kim

This paper aims to evaluate the suitability of current deep learning methods for clinical workflow especially by focusing on dermatology. Although deep learning methods have been attempted to get dermatologist level accuracy in several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Sourav Mishra , Subhajit Chaudhury , Hideaki Imaizumi , Toshihiko Yamasaki

The interpretability of deep learning is crucial for evaluating the reliability of medical imaging models and reducing the risks of inaccurate patient recommendations. This study addresses the "human out of the loop" and "trustworthiness"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Haozhe Luo , Aurélie Pahud de Mortanges , Oana Inel , Abraham Bernstein , Mauricio Reyes

Skin cancer is a life-threatening disease where early detection significantly improves patient outcomes. Automated diagnosis from dermoscopic images is challenging due to high intra-class variability and subtle inter-class differences. Many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Md. Enamul Atiq , Shaikh Anowarul Fattah

Skin cancer is the most common malignancy in the world. Automated skin cancer detection would significantly improve early detection rates and prevent deaths. To help with this aim, a number of datasets have been released which can be used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Michael Luke Battle , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Andrew Stephen McGough

Skin lesion identification is a key step toward dermatological diagnosis. When describing a skin lesion, it is very important to note its body site distribution as many skin diseases commonly affect particular parts of the body. To exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Haofu Liao , Jiebo Luo

Labeling medical images depends on professional knowledge, making it difficult to acquire large amount of annotated medical images with high quality in a short time. Thus, making good use of limited labeled samples in a small dataset to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Peng Jiang , Juan Liu , Lang Wang , Zhihui Ynag , Hongyu Dong , Jing Feng

Whole-slide image classification represents a key challenge in computational pathology and medicine. Attention-based multiple instance learning (MIL) has emerged as an effective approach for this problem. However, the effect of attention…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-14 Rajiv Krishnakumar , Julien Baglio , Frederik F. Flöther , Christian Ruiz , Stefan Habringer , Nicole H. Romano

Supervised learning is ubiquitous in medical image analysis. In this paper we consider the problem of meta-learning -- predicting which methods will perform well in an unseen classification problem, given previous experience with other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Veronika Cheplygina , Pim Moeskops , Mitko Veta , Behdad Dasht Bozorg , Josien Pluim

Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. While curable with early detection, only highly trained specialists are capable of accurately recognizing the disease. As expertise is in limited supply, automated systems capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Noel Codella , Quoc-Bao Nguyen , Sharath Pankanti , David Gutman , Brian Helba , Allan Halpern , John R. Smith

We propose a novel deep learning model for classifying medical images in the setting where there is a large amount of unlabelled medical data available, but labelled data is in limited supply. We consider the specific case of classifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Antonia Creswell , Alison Pouplin , Anil A Bharath

Rare diseases affecting 350 million individuals are commonly associated with delay in diagnosis or misdiagnosis. To improve those patients' outcome, rare disease detection is an important task for identifying patients with rare conditions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Kezi Yu , Yunlong Wang , Yong Cai , Cao Xiao , Emily Zhao , Lucas Glass , Jimeng Sun

In medical image analysis, the expertise scarcity and the high cost of data annotation limits the development of large artificial intelligence models. This paper investigates the potential of transfer learning with pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Jiajin Zhang , Ge Wang , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Pingkun Yan

Despite the success of deep neural networks in medical image classification, the problem remains challenging as data annotation is time-consuming, and the class distribution is imbalanced due to the relative scarcity of diseases. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Zhongzheng Huang , Jiawei Wu , Tao Wang , Zuoyong Li , Anastasia Ioannou

Recognizing new objects by learning from a few labeled examples in an evolving environment is crucial to obtain excellent generalization ability for real-world machine learning systems. A typical setting across current meta learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Zhenyi Wang , Tiehang Duan , Le Fang , Qiuling Suo , Mingchen Gao

Meta-learning has received a tremendous recent attention as a possible approach for mimicking human intelligence, i.e., acquiring new knowledge and skills with little or even no demonstration. Most of the existing meta-learning methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Fan Zhou , Chengtai Cao , Kunpeng Zhang , Goce Trajcevski , Ting Zhong , Ji Geng

Although many real-world applications, such as disease prediction, and fault detection suffer from class imbalance, most existing graph-based classification methods ignore the skewness of the distribution of classes; therefore, tend to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Mahdi Mohammadizadeh , Arash Mozhdehi , Yani Ioannou , Xin Wang