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Recent progress in generative models has made it easier for a wide audience to edit and create image content, raising concerns about the proliferation of deepfakes, especially in healthcare. Despite the availability of numerous techniques…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Fred Grabovski , Lior Yasur , Guy Amit , Yisroel Mirsky

Confounding pathology with normal anatomical variation remains a significant challenge in unsupervised medical-image anomaly detection, resulting in numerous false positives. To enhance integration of healthy variation, we augment the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-09 P. Bilha Githinji , Xi Yuan , Ijaz Gul , Lian Zhang , Jinhao Xu , Zhenglin Chen , Peiwu Qin , Dongmei Yu

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection has become a popular method to detect pathologies in medical images as it does not require supervision or labels for training. Most commonly, the anomaly detection model generates a "normal" version of an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Felix Meissen , Johannes Paetzold , Georgios Kaissis , Daniel Rueckert

Early detection of anomalies in medical images such as brain MRI is highly relevant for diagnosis and treatment of many conditions. Supervised machine learning methods are limited to a small number of pathologies where there is good…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Alexander Frotscher , Jaivardhan Kapoor , Thomas Wolfers , Christian F. Baumgartner

Statistical analysis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can help radiologists to detect pathologies that are otherwise likely to be missed. Deep learning (DL) has shown promise in modeling complex spatial data for brain anomaly detection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Victor Saase , Holger Wenz , Thomas Ganslandt , Christoph Groden , Máté E. Maros

Deep learning is widely applied in computer-aided pathological diagnosis, which alleviates the pathologist workload and provide timely clinical analysis. However, most models generally require large-scale annotated data for training, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Zeyu Liu , Tianyi Zhang , Yufang He , Yunlu Feng , Yu Zhao , Guanglei Zhang

Anomaly detection in MRI is of high clinical value in imaging and diagnosis. Unsupervised methods for anomaly detection provide interesting formulations based on reconstruction or latent embedding, offering a way to observe properties…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Ayantika Das , Arun Palla , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently been introduced as a regularizing prior for PET image reconstruction, integrating DMs trained on high-quality PET images with unsupervised schemes that condition on measured data. While these approaches…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 George Webber , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P King , Andrew J Reader

Image anomaly detection consists in detecting images or image portions that are visually different from the majority of the samples in a dataset. The task is of practical importance for various real-life applications like biomedical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Axel De Nardin , Pankaj Mishra , Gian Luca Foresti , Claudio Piciarelli

Deep neural networks have brought remarkable breakthroughs in medical image analysis. However, due to their data-hungry nature, the modest dataset sizes in medical imaging projects might be hindering their full potential. Generating…

Medical images used in clinical practice are heterogeneous and not the same quality as scans studied in academic research. Preprocessing breaks down in extreme cases when anatomy, artifacts, or imaging parameters are unusual or protocols…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi , Mads Nielsen

Applying machine learning to real-world medical data, e.g. from hospital archives, has the potential to revolutionize disease detection in brain images. However, detecting pathology in such heterogeneous cohorts is a difficult challenge.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Ana Lawry Aguila , Ayodeji Ijishakin , Juan Eugenio Iglesias , Tomomi Takenaga , Yukihiro Nomura , Takeharu Yoshikawa , Osamu Abe , Shouhei Hanaoka

Unsupervised anomaly detection methods offer a promising and flexible alternative to supervised approaches, holding the potential to revolutionize medical scan analysis and enhance diagnostic performance. In the current landscape, it is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Cosmin I. Bercea , Esther Puyol-Antón , Benedikt Wiestler , Daniel Rueckert , Julia A. Schnabel , Andrew P. King

Visual microscopic study of diseased tissue by pathologists has been the cornerstone for cancer diagnosis and prognostication for more than a century. Recently, deep learning methods have made significant advances in the analysis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-30 Puria Azadi Moghadam , Sanne Van Dalen , Karina C. Martin , Jochen Lennerz , Stephen Yip , Hossein Farahani , Ali Bashashati

Understanding and predicting the progression of neurodegenerative diseases remains a major challenge in medical AI, with significant implications for early diagnosis, disease monitoring, and treatment planning. However, most available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Nivetha Jayakumar , Swakshar Deb , Bahram Jafrasteh , Qingyu Zhao , Miaomiao Zhang

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

Nuclei segmentation and classification is a significant process in pathology image analysis. Deep learning-based approaches have greatly contributed to the higher accuracy of this task. However, those approaches suffer from the imbalanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Hyun-Jic Oh , Won-Ki Jeong

Early and accurate disease detection is crucial for patient management and successful treatment outcomes. However, the automatic identification of anomalies in medical images can be challenging. Conventional methods rely on large labeled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Cosmin I Bercea , Benedikt Wiestler , Daniel Rueckert , Julia A Schnabel

The introduction of diffusion models in anomaly detection has paved the way for more effective and accurate image reconstruction in pathologies. However, the current limitations in controlling noise granularity hinder diffusion models'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Cosmin I. Bercea , Michael Neumayr , Daniel Rueckert , Julia A. Schnabel

Anomaly detection in medical imaging is a challenging task in contexts where abnormalities are not annotated. This problem can be addressed through unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) methods, which identify features that do not match with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-07 Geoffroy Oudoumanessah , Carole Lartizien , Michel Dojat , Florence Forbes