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Data augmentation, the artificial creation of training data for machine learning by transformations, is a widely studied research field across machine learning disciplines. While it is useful for increasing a model's generalization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Markus Bayer , Marc-André Kaufhold , Christian Reuter

Data augmentation is a widely used and effective technique to improve the generalization performance of deep neural networks. Yet, despite often facing limited data availability when working with medical images, it is frequently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Adam Tupper , Christian Gagné

Multimodal Person Reidentification is gaining popularity in the research community due to its effectiveness compared to counter-part unimodal frameworks. However, the bottleneck for multimodal deep learning is the need for a large volume of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Mulham Fawakherji , Eduard Vazquez , Pasquale Giampa , Binod Bhattarai

Data augmentation is one of the most effective techniques to improve the generalization performance of deep neural networks. Yet, despite often facing limited data availability in medical image analysis, it is frequently underutilized. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Adam Tupper , Christian Gagné

Deep learning semantic segmentation algorithms can localise abnormalities or opacities from chest radiographs. However, the task of collecting and annotating training data is expensive and requires expertise which remains a bottleneck for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-26 Jitesh Seth , Rohit Lokwani , Viraj Kulkarni , Aniruddha Pant , Amit Kharat

In computer vision, it is well-known that a lack of data diversity will impair model performance. In this study, we address the challenges of enhancing the dataset diversity problem in order to benefit various downstream tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Yuhang Li , Xin Dong , Chen Chen , Weiming Zhuang , Lingjuan Lyu

Medical imaging research increasingly depends on large-scale data sharing to promote reproducibility and train Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. Ensuring patient privacy remains a significant challenge for open-access data sharing.…

Data sharing is crucial for open science and reproducible research, but the legal sharing of clinical data requires the removal of protected health information from electronic health records. This process, known as de-identification, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Yuxin Xiao , Shulammite Lim , Tom Joseph Pollard , Marzyeh Ghassemi

Despite the advances in digital healthcare systems offering curated structured knowledge, much of the critical information still lies in large volumes of unlabeled and unstructured clinical texts. These texts, which often contain protected…

Performing data augmentation for learning deep neural networks is well known to be important for training visual recognition systems. By artificially increasing the number of training examples, it helps reducing overfitting and improves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Nikita Dvornik , Julien Mairal , Cordelia Schmid

For sharing privacy-sensitive data, de-identification is commonly regarded as adequate for safeguarding privacy. Synthetic data is also being considered as a privacy-preserving alternative. Recent successes with numerical and tabular data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Atiquer Rahman Sarkar , Yao-Shun Chuang , Noman Mohammed , Xiaoqian Jiang

Privacy protection of medical image data is challenging. Even if metadata is removed, brain scans are vulnerable to attacks that match renderings of the face to facial image databases. Solutions have been developed to de-identify diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Lennart Alexander Van der Goten , Tobias Hepp , Zeynep Akata , Kevin Smith

Data augmentation is a ubiquitous technique for increasing the size of labeled training sets by leveraging task-specific data transformations that preserve class labels. While it is often easy for domain experts to specify individual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-10 Alexander J. Ratner , Henry R. Ehrenberg , Zeshan Hussain , Jared Dunnmon , Christopher Ré

Removing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from clinical notes in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is essential for research and AI development. While Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful, their high computational costs and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Prakrithi Shivaprakash , Lekhansh Shukla , Animesh Mukherjee , Prabhat Chand , Pratima Murthy

Deep learning based medical image recognition systems often require a substantial amount of training data with expert annotations, which can be expensive and time-consuming to obtain. Recently, synthetic augmentation techniques have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Jiarong Ye , Haomiao Ni , Peng Jin , Sharon X. Huang , Yuan Xue

Unstructured textual data are at the heart of health systems: liaison letters between doctors, operating reports, coding of procedures according to the ICD-10 standard, etc. The details included in these documents make it possible to get to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Yakini Tchouka , Jean-François Couchot , Maxime Coulmeau , David Laiymani , Philippe Selles , Azzedine Rahmani

The objective of BioCreative8 Track 3 is to extract phenotypic key medical findings embedded within EHR texts and subsequently normalize these findings to their Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) terms. However, the presence of diverse surface…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Hajung Kim , Chanhwi Kim , Jiwoong Sohn , Tim Beck , Marek Rei , Sunkyu Kim , T Ian Simpson , Joram M Posma , Antoine Lain , Mujeen Sung , Jaewoo Kang

The objective of this study is to address the critical issue of de-identification of clinical reports in order to allow access to data for research purposes, while ensuring patient privacy. The study highlights the difficulties faced in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xavier Tannier , Perceval Wajsbürt , Alice Calliger , Basile Dura , Alexandre Mouchet , Martin Hilka , Romain Bey

Recent research advances achieve human-level accuracy for de-identifying free-text clinical notes on research datasets, but gaps remain in reproducing this in large real-world settings. This paper summarizes lessons learned from building a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Veysel Kocaman , Hasham Ul Haq , David Talby

Generalizable image-based person re-identification (Re-ID) aims to recognize individuals across cameras in unseen domains without retraining. While multiple existing approaches address the domain gap through complex architectures, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Timur Mamedov , Karina Kvanchiani , Anton Konushin , Vadim Konushin