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Reliably detecting diseases using relevant biological information is crucial for real-world applicability of deep learning techniques in medical imaging. We debias deep learning models during training against unknown bias - without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Simon Langer , Oliver Taubmann , Felix Denzinger , Andreas Maier , Alexander Mühlberg

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The multiple chest x-ray datasets released in the last years have ground-truth labels intended for different computer vision tasks, suggesting that performance in automated chest-xray interpretation might improve…

Fairness in machine learning seeks to mitigate model bias against individuals based on sensitive features such as sex or age, often caused by an uneven representation of the population in the training data due to selection bias. Notably,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yasin I. Tepeli , Joana P. Gonçalves

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly those based on deep learning models, have increasingly achieved expert-level performance in medical applications. However, there is growing concern that such AI systems may reflect and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Xiuying Chen , Tairan Wang , Juexiao Zhou , Zirui Song , Xin Gao , Xiangliang Zhang

As machine learning algorithms have been widely deployed across applications, many concerns have been raised over the fairness of their predictions, especially in high stakes settings (such as facial recognition and medical imaging). To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Valeriia Cherepanova , Vedant Nanda , Micah Goldblum , John P. Dickerson , Tom Goldstein

Although deep learning (DL) models have shown great success in many medical image analysis tasks, deployment of the resulting models into real clinical contexts requires: (1) that they exhibit robustness and fairness across different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Raghav Mehta , Changjian Shui , Tal Arbel

Image classifiers often rely overly on peripheral attributes that have a strong correlation with the target class (i.e., dataset bias) when making predictions. Due to the dataset bias, the model correctly classifies data samples including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Jungsoo Lee , Juyoung Lee , Sanghun Jung , Jaegul Choo

Deep learning models, particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), have demonstrated exceptional performance in diagnosing skin diseases, often outperforming dermatologists. However, they have also unveiled biases linked to specific…

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Recent advancements in deep learning have shown transformative potential in medical imaging, yet concerns about fairness persist due to performance disparities across demographic subgroups. Existing methods aim to address these biases by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yicheng Gao , Jinkui Hao , Bo Zhou

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have achieved expert-level performance in medical imaging applications. Notably, self-supervised vision-language foundation models can detect a broad spectrum of pathologies without relying on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Yuzhe Yang , Yujia Liu , Xin Liu , Avanti Gulhane , Domenico Mastrodicasa , Wei Wu , Edward J Wang , Dushyant W Sahani , Shwetak Patel

In spite of the high performance and reliability of deep learning algorithms in a wide range of everyday applications, many investigations tend to show that a lot of models exhibit biases, discriminating against specific subgroups of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Jean-Rémy Conti , Nathan Noiry , Vincent Despiegel , Stéphane Gentric , Stéphan Clémençon

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly used in real-world applications (e.g. facial recognition). This has resulted in concerns about the fairness of decisions made by these models. Various notions and measures of fairness have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Vedant Nanda , Samuel Dooley , Sahil Singla , Soheil Feizi , John P. Dickerson

Over the past decades, computer-aided diagnosis tools for breast cancer have been developed to enhance screening procedures, yet their clinical adoption remains challenged by data variability and inherent biases. Although foundation models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Elodie Germani , Ilayda Selin Türk , Fatima Zeineddine , Charbel Mourad , Shadi Albarqouni

It has been rightfully emphasized that the use of AI for clinical decision making could amplify health disparities. An algorithm may encode protected characteristics, and then use this information for making predictions due to undesirable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ben Glocker , Charles Jones , Melanie Bernhardt , Stefan Winzeck

To address the issues of limited samples, time-consuming feature design, and low accuracy in detection and classification of breast cancer pathological images, a breast cancer image classification model algorithm combining deep learning and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Weimin Wang , Yufeng Li , Xu Yan , Mingxuan Xiao , Min Gao

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide and a good prognosis depends on early diagnosis. Unfortunately, screening programs for the early diagnosis of lung cancer are uncommon. This is in-part due to the at-risk groups…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Michael Horry , Subrata Chakraborty , Biswajeet Pradhan , Manoranjan Paul , Jing Zhu , Hui Wen Loh , Prabal Datta Barua , U. Rajendra Arharya

The potential of deep learning, especially in medical imaging, initiated astonishing results and improved the methodologies after every passing day. Deep learning in radiology provides the opportunity to classify, detect and segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Shaheer Khan , Azib Farooq , Israr Khan , Muhammad Gulraiz Khan , Abdul Razzaq

Deep learning has achieved impressive performance across various medical imaging tasks. However, its inherent bias against specific groups hinders its clinical applicability in equitable healthcare systems. A recently discovered phenomenon,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Kaouther Mouheb , Marawan Elbatel , Stefan Klein , Esther E. Bron

Recent research demonstrates that deep learning models are capable of precisely extracting bio-information (e.g. race, gender and age) from patients' Chest X-Rays (CXRs). In this paper, we further show that deep learning models are also…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Hao Liang , Kevin Ni , Guha Balakrishnan

Over the last few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have dominated the field of computer vision thanks to their ability to extract features and their outstanding performance in classification problems, for example in the automatic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Helena Liz , Javier Huertas-Tato , Manuel Sánchez-Montañés , Javier Del Ser , David Camacho