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Osteoporosis induced fractures occur worldwide about every 3 seconds. Vertebral compression fractures are early signs of the disease and considered risk predictors for secondary osteoporotic fractures. We present a detection method to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-06 Joeri Nicolaes , Steven Raeymaeckers , David Robben , Guido Wilms , Dirk Vandermeulen , Cesar Libanati , Marc Debois

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are propelling advances in a range of different computer vision tasks such as object detection and object segmentation. Their success has motivated research in applications of such models for medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Kristoffer Wickstrøm , Michael Kampffmeyer , Robert Jenssen

In recent years, the incidence of vision-threatening eye diseases has risen dramatically, necessitating scalable and accurate screening solutions. This paper presents a comprehensive study on deep learning architectures for the automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Mohammad Sadegh Gholizadeh , Amir Arsalan Rezapour

As interpretability has been pointed out as the obstacle to the adoption of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), there is an increasing interest in solving a transparency issue to guarantee the impressive performance. In this paper, we demonstrate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Woo-Jeoung Nam , Seong-Whan Lee

Bearing fault diagnosis is of great importance to decrease the damage risk of rotating machines and further improve economic profits. Recently, machine learning, represented by deep learning, has made great progress in bearing fault…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Jing-Xiao Liao , Hang-Cheng Dong , Zhi-Qi Sun , Jinwei Sun , Shiping Zhang , Feng-Lei Fan

The success of recent deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) depends on learning hidden representations that can summarize the important factors of variation behind the data. However, CNNs often criticized as being black boxes that lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Bolei Zhou , David Bau , Aude Oliva , Antonio Torralba

Interpretable deep learning models have received widespread attention in the field of image recognition. Due to the unique multi-instance learning of medical images and the difficulty in identifying decision-making regions, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yitao Peng , Lianghua He , Die Hu , Yihang Liu , Longzhen Yang , Shaohua Shang

A major prerequisite for the application of machine learning models in clinical decision making is trust and interpretability. Current explainability studies in the neuroimaging community have mostly focused on explaining individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Fabian Eitel , Anna Melkonyan , Kerstin Ritter

We present a novel method for explainable vertebral fracture assessment (XVFA) in low-dose radiographs using deep neural networks, incorporating vertebra detection and keypoint localization with uncertainty estimates. We incorporate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Victor Wåhlstrand Skärström , Lisa Johansson , Jennifer Alvén , Mattias Lorentzon , Ida Häggström

In order for machine learning to be deployed and trusted in many applications, it is crucial to be able to reliably explain why the machine learning algorithm makes certain predictions. For example, if an algorithm classifies a given…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-07 Amirata Ghorbani , Abubakar Abid , James Zou

Bone fractures present a major global health challenge, often resulting in pain, reduced mobility, and productivity loss, particularly in low-resource settings where access to expert radiology services is limited. Conventional imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Amna Hassan , Ilsa , Nouman Munib , Aneeqa Batool , Hamail Noor

Classification of skull fracture is a challenging task for both radiologists and researchers. Skull fractures result in broken pieces of bone, which can cut into the brain and cause bleeding and other injury types. So it is vital to detect…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-18 Md Moniruzzaman Emon , Tareque Rahman Ornob , Moqsadur Rahman

The application of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to a broad variety of tasks demands methods for coping with the complex and opaque nature of these architectures. When a gold standard is available, performance assessment treats the DNN as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Piero Fraternali , Federico Milani , Rocio Nahime Torres , Niccolò Zangrando

Deep learning models have gained increasing adoption in medical image analysis. However, these models often produce overconfident predictions, which can compromise clinical accuracy and reliability. Bridging the gap between high-performance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Jutika Borah , Hidam Kumarjit Singh

The presence of a vertebral compression fracture is highly indicative of osteoporosis and represents the single most robust predictor for development of a second osteoporotic fracture in the spine or elsewhere. Less than one third of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Amir Bar , Lior Wolf , Orna Bergman Amitai , Eyal Toledano , Eldad Elnekave

To tackle increasingly complex tasks, it has become an essential ability of neural networks to learn abstract representations. These task-specific representations and, particularly, the invariances they capture turn neural networks into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Robin Rombach , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

Without any means of interpretation, neural networks that predict molecular properties and bioactivities are merely black boxes. We will unravel these black boxes and will demonstrate approaches to understand the learned representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Kristina Preuer , Günter Klambauer , Friedrich Rippmann , Sepp Hochreiter , Thomas Unterthiner

The transformative power of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in radiology diagnostics is examined in this study, with a focus on interpretability, effectiveness, and ethical issues. With an altered DenseNet architecture, the CNN…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Keshav Kumar K. , Dr N V S L Narasimham

We propose DeepMiner, a framework to discover interpretable representations in deep neural networks and to build explanations for medical predictions. By probing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained to classify cancer in mammograms,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jimmy Wu , Bolei Zhou , Diondra Peck , Scott Hsieh , Vandana Dialani , Lester Mackey , Genevieve Patterson

Deep learning based medical image classifiers have shown remarkable prowess in various application areas like ophthalmology, dermatology, pathology, and radiology. However, the acceptance of these Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems in…