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Generative models have emerged as powerful tools in medical imaging, enabling tasks such as segmentation, anomaly detection, and high-quality synthetic data generation. These models typically rely on learning meaningful latent…

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Medical imaging data suffers from the limited availability of annotation because annotating 3D medical data is a time-consuming and expensive task. Moreover, even if the annotation is available, supervised learning-based approaches suffer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Abinav Ravi Venkatakrishnan , Seong Tae Kim , Rami Eisawy , Franz Pfister , Nassir Navab

Deep unsupervised anomaly detection in brain magnetic resonance imaging offers a promising route to identify pathological deviations without requiring lesion-specific annotations. Yet, fragmented evaluations, heterogeneous datasets, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Alexander Frotscher , Christian F. Baumgartner , Thomas Wolfers

Lesion detection in brain Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) remains a challenging task. State-of-the-art approaches are mostly based on supervised learning making use of large annotated datasets. Human beings, on the other hand, even…

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Obtaining ground truth data in medical imaging has difficulties due to the fact that it requires a lot of annotating time from the experts in the field. Also, when trained with supervised learning, it detects only the cases included in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Inha Kang , Jinah Park

As deep learning is showing unprecedented success in medical image analysis tasks, the lack of sufficient medical data is emerging as a critical problem. While recent attempts to solve the limited data problem using Generative Adversarial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-08 Gihyun Kwon , Chihye Han , Dae-shik Kim

Pathological brain appearances may be so heterogeneous as to be intelligible only as anomalies, defined by their deviation from normality rather than any specific pathological characteristic. Amongst the hardest tasks in medical imaging,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Walter Hugo Lopez Pinaya , Petru-Daniel Tudosiu , Robert Gray , Geraint Rees , Parashkev Nachev , Sebastien Ourselin , M. Jorge Cardoso

Early detection of cancer is key to a good prognosis and requires frequent testing, especially in pediatrics. Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (wbMRI) is an essential part of several well-established screening protocols, with screening…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Alex Chang , Vinith M. Suriyakumar , Abhishek Moturu , Nipaporn Tewattanarat , Andrea Doria , Anna Goldenberg

The increasing complexity of medical imaging data underscores the need for advanced anomaly detection methods to automatically identify diverse pathologies. Current methods face challenges in capturing the broad spectrum of anomalies, often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Cosmin I. Bercea , Benedikt Wiestler , Daniel Rueckert , Julia A. Schnabel

Unsupervised learning can discover various unseen diseases, relying on large-scale unannotated medical images of healthy subjects. Towards this, unsupervised methods reconstruct a single medical image to detect outliers either in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-18 Changhee Han , Leonardo Rundo , Kohei Murao , Zoltán Ádám Milacski , Kazuki Umemoto , Evis Sala , Hideki Nakayama , Shin'ichi Satoh

The number of samples in structural brain MRI studies is often too small to properly train deep learning models. Generative models show promise in addressing this issue by effectively learning the data distribution and generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Wei Peng , Tian Xia , Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Tomas Bosschieter , Ehsan Adeli , Qingyu Zhao , Ben Glocker , Kilian M. Pohl

Anomaly detection in medical imaging plays a crucial role in identifying pathological regions across various imaging modalities, such as brain MRI, liver CT, and carotid ultrasound (US). However, training fully supervised segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Yuan Bi , Lucie Huang , Ricarda Clarenbach , Reza Ghotbi , Angelos Karlas , Nassir Navab , Zhongliang Jiang

Unsupervised anomaly detection and segmentation methods train a model to learn the training distribution as `normal'. In the testing phase, they identify patterns that deviate from this normal distribution as `anomalies'. To learn the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Ziyun Liang , Xiaoqing Guo , Wentian Xu , Yasin Ibrahim , Natalie Voets , Pieter M Pretorius , J. Alison Noble , Konstantinos Kamnitsas

The increasing digitization of medical imaging enables machine learning based improvements in detecting, visualizing and segmenting lesions, easing the workload for medical experts. However, supervised machine learning requires reliable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Maximilian E. Tschuchnig , Michael Gadermayr

Generative models based on variational autoencoders are a popular technique for detecting anomalies in images in a semi-supervised context. A common approach employs the anomaly score to detect the presence of anomalies, and it is known to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Muhammad Rashid , Elvio Amparore , Enrico Ferrari , Damiano Verda

Anomalies are samples that significantly deviate from the rest of the data and their detection plays a major role in building machine learning models that can be reliably used in applications such as data-driven design and novelty…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-19 Amin Yousefpour , Mehdi Shishehbor , Zahra Zanjani Foumani , Ramin Bostanabad

Supervised deep learning techniques show promise in medical image analysis. However, they require comprehensive annotated data sets, which poses challenges, particularly for rare diseases. Consequently, unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Finn Behrendt , Debayan Bhattacharya , Lennart Maack , Julia Krüger , Roland Opfer , Robin Mieling , Alexander Schlaefer

Anomaly detection is the problem of recognizing abnormal inputs based on the seen examples of normal data. Despite recent advances of deep learning in recognizing image anomalies, these methods still prove incapable of handling complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Nina Shvetsova , Bart Bakker , Irina Fedulova , Heinrich Schulz , Dmitry V. Dylov

Automatic detecting anomalous regions in images of objects or textures without priors of the anomalies is challenging, especially when the anomalies appear in very small areas of the images, making difficult-to-detect visual variations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jie Yang , Yong Shi , Zhiquan Qi

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection has become a popular method to detect pathologies in medical images as it does not require supervision or labels for training. Most commonly, the anomaly detection model generates a "normal" version of an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Felix Meissen , Johannes Paetzold , Georgios Kaissis , Daniel Rueckert