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Images produced by text-to-image diffusion models might not always faithfully represent the semantic intent of the provided text prompt, where the model might overlook or entirely fail to produce certain objects. Existing solutions often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Tuna Han Salih Meral , Enis Simsar , Federico Tombari , Pinar Yanardag

Fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA) is crucial for diagnosing and monitoring retinal vascular issues but is limited by its invasive nature and restricted accessibility compared to color fundus (CF) imaging. Existing methods that convert CF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Weiyi Zhang , Jiancheng Yang , Ruoyu Chen , Siyu Huang , Pusheng Xu , Xiaolan Chen , Shanfu Lu , Hongyu Cao , Mingguang He , Danli Shi

Widespread outreach programs using remote retinal imaging have proven to decrease the risk from diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness in the US. However, this process still requires manual verification of image quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Arjun Raj Rajanna , Kamelia Aryafar , Rajeev Ramchandran , Christye Sisson , Ali Shokoufandeh , Raymond Ptucha

Recent advancements in generative AI have introduced novel prospects and practical implementations. Especially diffusion models show their strength in generating diverse and, at the same time, realistic features, positioning them well for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Franz Motzkus , Christian Hellert , Ute Schmid

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR), a prevalent and severe complication of diabetes, affects millions of individuals globally, underscoring the need for accurate and timely diagnosis. Recent advancements in imaging technologies, such as…

Ultrasound imaging is widely used in medical diagnosis, especially for fetal health assessment. However, the availability of high-quality annotated ultrasound images is limited, which restricts the training of machine learning models. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yueying Tian , Elif Ucurum , Xudong Han , Rupert Young , Chris Chatwin , Philip Birch

Counterfactual explanations have emerged as a promising method for elucidating the behavior of opaque black-box models. Recently, several works leveraged pixel-space diffusion models for counterfactual generation. To handle noisy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Karim Farid , Simon Schrodi , Max Argus , Thomas Brox

Generating counterfactual explanations is one of the most effective approaches for uncovering the inner workings of black-box neural network models and building user trust. While remarkable strides have been made in generative modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Nishtha Madaan , Srikanta Bedathur

We propose image-to-image diffusion models that are designed to enhance the realism and details of generated brain images by introducing sharp edges, fine textures, subtle anatomical features, and imaging noise. Generative models have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Shen Zhu , Yinzhu Jin , Tyler Spears , Ifrah Zawar , P. Thomas Fletcher

For decades, advances in retinal imaging technology have enabled effective diagnosis and management of retinal disease using fundus cameras. Recently, ultra-wide-field (UWF) fundus imaging by Optos camera is gradually put into use because…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-25 Lie Ju , Xin Wang , Quan Zhou , Hu Zhu , Mehrtash Harandi , Paul Bonnington , Tom Drummond , Zongyuan Ge

Predicting counterfactual outcomes in longitudinal data, where sequential treatment decisions heavily depend on evolving patient states, is critical yet notoriously challenging due to complex time-dependent confounding and inadequate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-15 Farbod Alinezhad , Jianfei Cao , Gary J. Young , Brady Post

We leverage diffusion models to study the robustness-performance tradeoff of robust classifiers. Our approach introduces a simple, pretrained diffusion method to generate low-norm counterfactual examples (CEs): semantically altered data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Eric Yeats , Cameron Darwin , Eduardo Ortega , Frank Liu , Hai Li

Recent developments in diffusion models have advanced conditioned image generation, yet they struggle with reconstructing out-of-distribution (OOD) images, such as unseen tumors in medical images, causing "image hallucination" and risking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Seunghoi Kim , Chen Jin , Tom Diethe , Matteo Figini , Henry F. J. Tregidgo , Asher Mullokandov , Philip Teare , Daniel C. Alexander

Fundus images are widely used for diagnosing various eye diseases, such as diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and age-related macular degeneration. However, manual analysis of fundus images is time-consuming and prone to errors. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Eric Shah , Jay Patel , Mr. Vishal Katheriya , Parth Pataliya

Accurate decision making in medical imaging requires reasoning over subtle visual differences between confusable conditions, yet most existing approaches rely on nearest neighbor retrieval that returns redundant evidence and reinforces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Daivik Patel , Shrenik Patel

We describe Countersynth, a conditional generative model of diffeomorphic deformations that induce label-driven, biologically plausible changes in volumetric brain images. The model is intended to synthesise counterfactual training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Guilherme Pombo , Robert Gray , Jorge Cardoso , Sebastien Ourselin , Geraint Rees , John Ashburner , Parashkev Nachev

Glaucoma is a progressive optic neuropathy characterized by structural damage to the optic nerve head and functional changes in the visual field. Detecting glaucoma early is crucial to preventing loss of eyesight. However, medical datasets…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Youssof Nawar , Nouran Soliman , Moustafa Wassel , Mohamed ElHabebe , Noha Adly , Marwan Torki , Ahmed Elmassry , Islam Ahmed

Diffusion models when conditioned on text prompts, generate realistic-looking images with intricate details. But most of these pre-trained models fail to generate accurate images when it comes to human features like hands, teeth, etc. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Gurusha Juneja , Sukrit Kumar

Counterfactual inference considers a hypothetical intervention in a parallel world that shares some evidence with the factual world. If the evidence specifies a conditional distribution on a manifold, counterfactuals may be analytically…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-03 Juha Karvanen , Santtu Tikka , Matti Vihola

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) are a recent family of generative models that achieve state-of-the-art results. In order to obtain class-conditional generation, it was suggested to guide the diffusion process by gradients…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Bahjat Kawar , Roy Ganz , Michael Elad