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An important component of human analysis of medical images and their context is the ability to relate newly seen things to related instances in our memory. In this paper we mimic this ability by using multi-modal retrieval augmentation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Tom van Sonsbeek , Marcel Worring

Computer-aided diagnosis plays a salient role in more accessible and accurate cardiopulmonary diseases classification and localization on chest radiography. Millions of people get affected and die due to these diseases without an accurate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-29 Ajay Jaiswal , Tianhao Li , Cyprian Zander , Yan Han , Justin F. Rousseau , Yifan Peng , Ying Ding

Finding diseases from an X-ray image is an important yet highly challenging task. Current methods for solving this task exploit various characteristics of the chest X-ray image, but one of the most important characteristics is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Minchul Kim , Jongchan Park , Seil Na , Chang Min Park , Donggeun Yoo

Chest X-ray radiography (CXR) is an essential medical imaging technique for disease diagnosis. However, as 2D projectional images, CXRs are limited by structural superposition and hence fail to capture 3D anatomies. This limitation makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zefan Yang , Ge Wang , James Hendler , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Pingkun Yan

Counterfactual medical image generation have emerged as a critical tool for enhancing AI-driven systems in medical domain by answering "what-if" questions. However, existing approaches face two fundamental limitations: First, they fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hyungi Min , Taeseung You , Hangyeul Lee , Yeongjae Cho , Sungzoon Cho

Interpreting chest X-rays is inherently challenging due to the overlap between anatomical structures and the subtle presentation of many clinically significant pathologies, making accurate diagnosis time-consuming even for experienced…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Shantam Srivastava , Mahesh Bhosale , David Doermann , Mingchen Gao

We present a novel framework for explainable labeling and interpretation of medical images. Medical images require specialized professionals for interpretation, and are explained (typically) via elaborate textual reports. Different from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-17 Dwarikanath Mahapatra

Automated radiology report generation has the potential to improve radiology reporting and alleviate the workload of radiologists. However, the medical report generation task poses unique challenges due to the limited availability of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Ruoqing Zhao , Xi Wang , Hongliang Dai , Pan Gao , Piji Li

Chest X-ray (CXR) is the most common X-ray examination performed in daily clinical practice for the diagnosis of various heart and lung abnormalities. The large amount of data to be read and reported, with 100+ studies per day for a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Sebastian Guendel , Florin C. Ghesu , Sasa Grbic , Eli Gibson , Bogdan Georgescu , Andreas Maier , Dorin Comaniciu

Self-supervised learning has proven to be an effective way to learn representations in domains where annotated labels are scarce, such as medical imaging. A widely adopted framework for this purpose is contrastive learning and it has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Hugo Figueiras , Helena Aidos , Nuno Cruz Garcia

This paper delves into the challenges and advancements in the field of medical image segmentation, particularly focusing on breast cancer diagnosis. The authors propose a novel Transformer-based segmentation model that addresses the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Weijie He , Runyuan Bao , Yiru Cang , Jianjun Wei , Yang Zhang , Jiacheng Hu

This paper proposes a novel framework for lung segmentation in chest X-rays. It consists of two key contributions, a criss-cross attention based segmentation network and radiorealistic chest X-ray image synthesis (i.e. a synthesized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Youbao Tang , Yuxing Tang , Jing Xiao , Ronald M. Summers

Anomaly localization is an important problem in computer vision which involves localizing anomalous regions within images with applications in industrial inspection, surveillance, and medical imaging. This task is challenging due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Shashanka Venkataramanan , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Rajat Vikram Singh , Abhijit Mahalanobis

Accurate identification and localization of abnormalities from radiology images serve as a critical role in computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems. Building a highly generalizable system usually requires a large amount of data with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Euyoung Kim , Soochahn Lee , Kyoung Mu Lee

Automating report generation for medical imaging promises to reduce workload and assist diagnosis in clinical practice. Recent work has shown that deep learning models can successfully caption natural images. However, learning from medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Ivona Najdenkoska , Xiantong Zhen , Marcel Worring , Ling Shao

Transformers have recently shown promise for medical image applications, leading to an increasing interest in developing such models for medical image registration. Recent advancements in designing registration Transformers have focused on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Junyu Chen , Yihao Liu , Yufan He , Yong Du

Object counting has progressed from class-specific models, which count only known categories, to class-agnostic models that generalize to unseen categories. The next challenge is Referring Expression Counting (REC), where the goal is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Kostas Triaridis , Panagiotis Kaliosis , E-Ro Nguyen , Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

The global challenge in chest radiograph X-ray (CXR) abnormalities often being misdiagnosed is primarily associated with perceptual errors, where healthcare providers struggle to accurately identify the location of abnormalities, rather…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-06 Sanskriti Singh

We propose SparseContrast, a new framework that merges dynamic sparse attention with contrastive learning for medical imaging, with a focus on chest X-ray disease detection in low-data settings. Traditional contrastive learning methods rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Paarth Prasad , Ruchika Malhotra

Image-to-text radiology report generation aims to automatically produce radiology reports that describe the findings in medical images. Most existing methods focus solely on the image data, disregarding the other patient information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Nurbanu Aksoy , Serge Sharoff , Selcuk Baser , Nishant Ravikumar , Alejandro F Frangi