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Structural Health Monitoring plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety, reliability, and longevity of bridge infrastructures through early damage detection. Although recent advances in deep learning-based models have enabled automated…

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Obstetric ultrasound image quality is crucial for accurate diagnosis and monitoring of fetal health. However, acquiring high-quality standard planes is difficult, influenced by the sonographer's expertise and factors like the maternal BMI…

Recent advancements in generative models have unlocked the capabilities to render photo-realistic data in a controllable fashion. Trained on the real data, these generative models are capable of producing realistic samples with minimal to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Abhay Rawat , Shubham Dokania , Astitva Srivastava , Shuaib Ahmed , Haiwen Feng , Rahul Tallamraju

We propose a novel approach to mitigate biases in computer vision models by utilizing counterfactual generation and fine-tuning. While counterfactuals have been used to analyze and address biases in DNN models, the counterfactuals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Pushkar Shukla , Dhruv Srikanth , Lee Cohen , Matthew Turk

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

Reducing the requirement for densely annotated masks in medical image segmentation is important due to cost constraints. In this paper, we consider the problem of inferring pixel-level predictions of brain lesions by only using image-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Pedro Sanchez , Antanas Kascenas , Xiao Liu , Alison Q. O'Neil , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Deep generative models have demonstrated remarkable success in medical image synthesis. However, ensuring conditioning faithfulness and high-quality synthetic images for direct or counterfactual generation remains a challenge. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Fangrui Huang , Alan Wang , Binxu Li , Bailey Trang , Ridvan Yesiloglu , Tianyu Hua , Wei Peng , Ehsan Adeli

Prenatal ultrasound imaging is the first-choice modality to assess fetal health. Medical image datasets for AI and ML methods must be diverse (i.e. diagnoses, diseases, pathologies, scanners, demographics, etc), however there are few public…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-11 Michelle Iskandar , Harvey Mannering , Zhanxiang Sun , Jacqueline Matthew , Hamideh Kerdegari , Laura Peralta , Miguel Xochicale

Counterfactuals can explain classification decisions of neural networks in a human interpretable way. We propose a simple but effective method to generate such counterfactuals. More specifically, we perform a suitable diffeomorphic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Ann-Kathrin Dombrowski , Jan E. Gerken , Klaus-Robert Müller , Pan Kessel

Accurate embryo morphology assessment is essential in assisted reproductive technology for selecting the most viable embryo. Artificial intelligence has the potential to enhance this process. However, the limited availability of embryo data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Oriana Presacan , Alexandru Dorobantiu , Vajira Thambawita , Michael A. Riegler , Mette H. Stensen , Mario Iliceto , Alexandru C. Aldea , Akriti Sharma

Deep learning (DL) models in medical imaging face challenges in generalizability and robustness due to variations in image acquisition parameters (IAP). In this work, we introduce a novel method using conditional denoising diffusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-01 Pedro Morão , Joao Santinha , Yasna Forghani , Nuno Loução , Pedro Gouveia , Mario A. T. Figueiredo

We present a general causal generative modelling framework for accurate estimation of high fidelity image counterfactuals with deep structural causal models. Estimation of interventional and counterfactual queries for high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Tian Xia , Miguel Monteiro , Nick Pawlowski , Ben Glocker

Mammogram benign or malignant classification with only image-level labels is challenging due to the absence of lesion annotations. Motivated by the symmetric prior that the lesions on one side of breasts rarely appear in the corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Chu-ran Wang , Jing Li , Fandong Zhang , Xinwei Sun , Hao Dong , Yizhou Yu , Yizhou Wang

Counterfactual image editing is an important task in generative AI, which asks how an image would look if certain features were different. The current literature on the topic focuses primarily on changing individual features while remaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Yushu Pan , Elias Bareinboim

Recent advances in generative models for medical imaging have shown promise in representing multiple modalities. However, the variability in modality availability across datasets limits the general applicability of the synthetic data they…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Sven Lüpke , Yousef Yeganeh , Ehsan Adeli , Nassir Navab , Azade Farshad

Data augmentation is essential for medical research to increase the size of training datasets and achieve better results. In this work, we experiment three GAN architectures with different loss functions to generate new brain MRIs. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-10 Antoine Delplace

Generative AI has revolutionised visual content editing, empowering users to effortlessly modify images and videos. However, not all edits are equal. To perform realistic edits in domains such as natural image or medical imaging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Thomas Melistas , Nikos Spyrou , Nefeli Gkouti , Pedro Sanchez , Athanasios Vlontzos , Yannis Panagakis , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models enable high-fidelity image synthesis and editing. In biomedicine, these models facilitate counterfactual image editing, producing pairs of images where one is edited to simulate hypothetical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Malek Ben Alaya , Daniel M. Lang , Benedikt Wiestler , Julia A. Schnabel , Cosmin I. Bercea

Counterfactual explanations have been successfully applied to create human interpretable explanations for various black-box models. They are handy for tasks in the image domain, where the quality of the explanations benefits from recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Trung Duc Ha , Sidney Bender

Causal generative modelling is gaining interest in medical imaging due to its ability to answer interventional and counterfactual queries. Most work focuses on generating counterfactual images that look plausible, using auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Tian Xia , Mélanie Roschewitz , Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Charles Jones , Ben Glocker