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Modern deep learning models in computer vision require large datasets of real images, which are difficult to curate and pose privacy and legal concerns, limiting their commercial use. Recent works suggest synthetic data as an alternative,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Farnood Salehi , Vandit Sharma , Amirhossein Askari Farsangi , Tunç Ozan Aydın

Automatic skin lesion classification from dermoscopy images is important for the early diagnosis of skin diseases such as melanoma. Class imbalance in skin lesion datasets, notably the defects in the representation of malignant(cancerous)…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-19 Ariful Islam Khandaker , Abdullah Al Shafi , Mohiuddin Ahmad

One highly promising direction for enabling flexible real-time on-device image editing is utilizing data distillation by leveraging large-scale text-to-image diffusion models to generate paired datasets used for training generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yifan Gong , Zheng Zhan , Qing Jin , Yanyu Li , Yerlan Idelbayev , Xian Liu , Andrey Zharkov , Kfir Aberman , Sergey Tulyakov , Yanzhi Wang , Jian Ren

This paper introduces a deep-learning based efficient classifier for common dermatological conditions, aimed at people without easy access to skin specialists. We report approximately 80% accuracy, in a situation where primary care doctors…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-01 Sourav Mishra , Toshihiko Yamasaki , Hideaki Imaizumi

This study focuses on automatic skin cancer detection using a Meta-learning approach for dermoscopic images. The aim of this study is to explore the benefits of the generalization of the knowledge extracted from non-medical data in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Sara I. Garcia

Dermatological diseases are among the most common disorders worldwide. This paper presents the first study of the interpretability and imbalanced semi-supervised learning of the multiclass intelligent skin diagnosis framework (ISDL) using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Futian Weng , Yuanting Ma , Jinghan Sun , Shijun Shan , Qiyuan Li , Jianping Zhu , Yang Wang , Yan Xu

Large text-guided diffusion models, such as DALLE-2, are able to generate stunning photorealistic images given natural language descriptions. While such models are highly flexible, they struggle to understand the composition of certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Nan Liu , Shuang Li , Yilun Du , Antonio Torralba , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Racial bias in medicine, such as in dermatology, presents significant ethical and clinical challenges. This is likely to happen because there is a significant underrepresentation of darker skin tones in training datasets for machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Miguel López-Pérez , Søren Hauberg , Aasa Feragen

The adoption of artificial intelligence in dermatology promises democratized access to healthcare, but model reliability depends on the quality and comprehensiveness of the data fueling these models. Despite rapid growth in publicly…

In computer-assisted surgery, automatically recognizing anatomical organs is crucial for understanding the surgical scene and providing intraoperative assistance. While machine learning models can identify such structures, their deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Danush Kumar Venkatesh , Dominik Rivoir , Micha Pfeiffer , Fiona Kolbinger , Stefanie Speidel

Image classification systems often inherit biases from uneven group representation in training data. For example, in face datasets for hair color classification, blond hair may be disproportionately associated with females, reinforcing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Abhipsa Basu , Aviral Gupta , Abhijnya Bhat , R. Venkatesh Babu

Medical image understanding requires meticulous examination of fine visual details, with particular regions requiring additional attention. While radiologists build such expertise over years of experience, it is challenging for AI models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Ying Jin , Zhuoran Zhou , Haoquan Fang , Jenq-Neng Hwang

Accurate and robust medical image classification is a challenging task, especially in application domains where available annotated datasets are small and present high imbalance between target classes. Considering that data acquisition is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Neil De La Fuente , Mireia Majó , Irina Luzko , Henry Córdova , Gloria Fernández-Esparrach , Jorge Bernal

Diffusion models are a special type of generative model, capable of synthesising new data from a learnt distribution. We introduce DISPR, a diffusion-based model for solving the inverse problem of three-dimensional (3D) cell shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Dominik J. E. Waibel , Ernst Röell , Bastian Rieck , Raja Giryes , Carsten Marr

Text-to-image diffusion models are a class of deep generative models that have demonstrated an impressive capacity for high-quality image generation. However, these models are susceptible to implicit biases that arise from web-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Yinan Zhang , Eric Tzeng , Yilun Du , Dmitry Kislyuk

In this study, we show that diffusion models can be used in industrial scenarios to improve the data augmentation procedure in the context of surface defect detection. In general, defect detection classifiers are trained on ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Luigi Capogrosso , Federico Girella , Francesco Taioli , Michele Dalla Chiara , Muhammad Aqeel , Franco Fummi , Francesco Setti , Marco Cristani

Recent advances in generative deep learning have enabled the creation of high-quality synthetic images in text-to-image generation. Prior work shows that fine-tuning a pretrained diffusion model on ImageNet and generating synthetic training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zhuoran Yu , Chenchen Zhu , Sean Culatana , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi , Fanyi Xiao , Yong Jae Lee

Building accurate models for rare skin diseases remains challenging due to the lack of sufficient labeled data and the inherently long-tailed distribution of available samples. These issues are further complicated by inconsistencies in how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Zeynep Özdemir , Hacer Yalim Keles , Ömer Özgür Tanrıöver

Deep generative models are becoming increasingly powerful, now generating diverse high fidelity photo-realistic samples given text prompts. Have they reached the point where models of natural images can be used for generative data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Shekoofeh Azizi , Simon Kornblith , Chitwan Saharia , Mohammad Norouzi , David J. Fleet

Skin lesion datasets consist predominantly of normal samples with only a small percentage of abnormal ones, giving rise to the class imbalance problem. Also, skin lesion images are largely similar in overall appearance owing to the low…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-29 Hasib Zunair , A. Ben Hamza