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Medical image segmentation remains challenging due to limited annotations for training, ambiguous anatomical features, and domain shifts. While vision-language models such as CLIP offer strong cross-modal representations, their potential…

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Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) offer interpretable alternatives to black-box predictors by introducing human-relatable concepts before the final output. However, existing CBMs struggle to verify whether predicted concepts correspond to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yingying Fang , Haijie Xu , Shuang Wu , Mariathasan Anish , Guang Yang

Visual explanation methods have an important role in the prognosis of the patients where the annotated data is limited or unavailable. There have been several attempts to use gradient-based attribution methods to localize pathology from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-24 Ugur Demir , Ismail Irmakci , Elif Keles , Ahmet Topcu , Ziyue Xu , Concetto Spampinato , Sachin Jambawalikar , Evrim Turkbey , Baris Turkbey , Ulas Bagci

Deep learning algorithms have recently gained significant attention due to their impressive performance. However, their high complexity and un-interpretable mode of operation hinders their confident deployment in real-world safety-critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Konstantinos P. Panousis , Dino Ienco , Diego Marcos

The design of interpretable deep learning models working in relational domains poses an open challenge: interpretable deep learning methods, such as Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs), are not designed to solve relational problems, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Pietro Barbiero , Francesco Giannini , Gabriele Ciravegna , Michelangelo Diligenti , Giuseppe Marra

Fetal standard scan plane detection during 2-D mid-pregnancy examinations is a highly complex task, which requires extensive medical knowledge and years of training. Although deep neural networks (DNN) can assist inexperienced operators in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yingni Wanga , Yunxiao Liua , Licong Dongc , Xuzhou Wua , Huabin Zhangb , Qiongyu Yed , Desheng Sunc , Xiaobo Zhoue , Kehong Yuan

Medical image segmentation is inherently uncertain. For a given image, there may be multiple plausible segmentation hypotheses, and physicians will often disagree on lesion and organ boundaries. To be suited to real-world application,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 João Lourenço Silva , Arlindo L. Oliveira

Utilizing potent representations of the large vision-language models (VLMs) to accomplish various downstream tasks has attracted increasing attention. Within this research field, soft prompt learning has become a representative approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Yequan Bie , Luyang Luo , Zhixuan Chen , Hao Chen

While medical Vision-Language models (VLMs) achieve strong performance on tasks such as tumor or organ segmentation and diagnosis prediction, their opaque latent representations limit clinical trust and the ability to explain predictions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Md Rakibul Haque , KM Arefeen Sultan , Tushar Kataria , Shireen Elhabian

Interpretability is essential in medical imaging to ensure that clinicians can comprehend and trust artificial intelligence models. In this paper, we propose a novel interpretable approach that combines attribute regularization of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-15 Maxime Di Folco , Cosmin I. Bercea , Julia A. Schnabel

As digital medical imaging becomes more prevalent and archives increase in size, representation learning exposes an interesting opportunity for enhanced medical decision support systems. On the other hand, medical imaging data is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Eduardo Pinho , Carlos Costa

The opaque nature of deep learning models remains a significant barrier to their clinical adoption in medical imaging. This paper presents a multimodal explainability framework that bridges the gap between convolutional neural network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Paul Valery Nguezet , Elie Tagne Fute , Yusuf Brima , Benoit Martin Azanguezet , Marcellin Atemkeng

The concept bottleneck model (CBM) is an interpretable-by-design framework that makes decisions by first predicting a set of interpretable concepts, and then predicting the class label based on the given concepts. Existing CBMs are trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Andong Tan , Fengtao Zhou , Hao Chen

Diagnosis prediction is a critical task in healthcare, where timely and accurate identification of medical conditions can significantly impact patient outcomes. Traditional machine learning and deep learning models have achieved notable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Qiuhao Lu , Rui Li , Elham Sagheb , Andrew Wen , Jinlian Wang , Liwei Wang , Jungwei W. Fan , Hongfang Liu

Deep learning methods, in particular convolutional neural networks, have emerged as a powerful tool in medical image computing tasks. While these complex models provide excellent performance, their black-box nature may hinder real-world…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Yuzhe Lu , Adam Perer

Multimodal language models (MLMs) show promise for clinical decision support and diagnostic reasoning, raising the prospect of end-to-end automated medical image interpretation. However, clinicians are highly selective in adopting AI tools;…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Mahtab Bigverdi , Wisdom Ikezogwo , Kevin Zhang , Hyewon Jeong , Mingyu Lu , Sungjae Cho , Linda Shapiro , Ranjay Krishna

Interpretable deep learning is a fundamental building block towards safer AI, especially when the deployment possibilities of deep learning-based computer-aided medical diagnostic systems are so eminent. However, without a computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Anirban Mukhopadhyay

Interpretability for machine learning models in medical imaging (MLMI) is an important direction of research. However, there is a general sense of murkiness in what interpretability means. Why does the need for interpretability in MLMI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Alan Q. Wang , Batuhan K. Karaman , Heejong Kim , Jacob Rosenthal , Rachit Saluja , Sean I. Young , Mert R. Sabuncu

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

Being able to interpret, or explain, the predictions made by a machine learning model is of fundamental importance. This is especially true when there is interest in deploying data-driven models to make high-stakes decisions, e.g. in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 An-phi Nguyen , María Rodríguez Martínez