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Skin lesion identification is a key step toward dermatological diagnosis. When describing a skin lesion, it is very important to note its body site distribution as many skin diseases commonly affect particular parts of the body. To exploit…

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The pursuit of decision safety in clinical applications highlights the potential of concept-based methods in medical imaging. While these models offer active interpretability, they often suffer from concept leakages, where unintended…

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Despite their success, Large-Language Models (LLMs) still face criticism due to their lack of interpretability. Traditional post-hoc interpretation methods, based on attention and gradient-based analysis, offer limited insights as they only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Francesco De Santis , Philippe Bich , Gabriele Ciravegna , Pietro Barbiero , Danilo Giordano , Tania Cerquitelli

kin cancer is considered one of the most common type of cancer in several countries. Due to the difficulty and subjectivity in the clinical diagnosis of skin lesions, Computer-Aided Diagnosis systems are being developed for assist experts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 José G. M. Esgario , Renato A. Krohling

We present a framework that allows users to incorporate the semantics of their domain knowledge for topic model refinement while remaining model-agnostic. Our approach enables users to (1) understand the semantic space of the model, (2)…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Mennatallah El-Assady , Rebecca Kehlbeck , Christopher Collins , Daniel Keim , Oliver Deussen

Skin cancer is one of the deadliest diseases and has a high mortality rate if left untreated. The diagnosis generally starts with visual screening and is followed by a biopsy or histopathological examination. Early detection can aid in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Mahapara Khurshid , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

In this paper, we propose a CNN fine-tuning method which enables users to give simultaneous feedback on two outputs: the classification itself and the visual explanation for the classification. We present the effect of this feedback…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Md Abdul Kadir , Fabrizio Nunnari , Daniel Sonntag

External knowledge is often useful for natural language understanding tasks. We introduce a contextual text representation model called Conceptual-Contextual (CC) embeddings, which incorporates structured knowledge into text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Xiao Zhang , Dejing Dou , Ji Wu

Deep learning models for dermatological image analysis remain sensitive to acquisition variability and domain-specific visual characteristics, leading to performance degradation when deployed in clinical settings. We investigate how visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Rodrigo Mota , Kelvin Cunha , Emanoel dos Santos , Fábio Papais , Francisco Filho , Thales Bezerra , Erico Medeiros , Paulo Borba , Tsang Ing Ren

Explainability is a longstanding challenge in deep learning, especially in high-stakes domains like healthcare. Common explainability methods highlight image regions that drive an AI model's decision. Humans, however, heavily rely on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Shobhit Agarwal , Yevgeniy R. Semenov , William Lotter

Multimodal pre-trained models, such as CLIP, are popular for zero-shot classification due to their open-vocabulary flexibility and high performance. However, vision-language models, which compute similarity scores between images and class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Mia Chiquier , Utkarsh Mall , Carl Vondrick

Lumbar Spinal Stenosis (LSS) diagnosis remains a critical clinical challenge, with diagnosis heavily dependent on labor-intensive manual interpretation of multi-view Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), leading to substantial inter-observer…

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Cutaneous malignancies demand early detection for favorable outcomes, yet current diagnostics suffer from inter-observer variability and access disparities. While AI shows promise, existing dermatological systems are limited by homogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Sher Khan , Raz Muhammad , Adil Hussain , Muhammad Sajjad , Muhammad Rashid

Automated skin lesion classification using deep learning has shown remarkable accuracy, yet clinical adoption remains limited due to the "black box" nature of these models. We present MelanomaNet, an explainable deep learning system for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Sukhrobbek Ilyosbekov

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has drawn increasing attention recently for its transferable visual representation learning. However, due to the semantic gap within datasets, CLIP's pre-trained image-text alignment becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Longtian Qiu , Renrui Zhang , Ziyu Guo , Ziyao Zeng , Zilu Guo , Yafeng Li , Guangnan Zhang

Existing semantic segmentation approaches are often limited by costly pixel-wise annotations and predefined classes. In this work, we present CLIP-S$^4$ that leverages self-supervised pixel representation learning and vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Wenbin He , Suphanut Jamonnak , Liang Gou , Liu Ren

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have achieved remarkable success in zero-shot learning (ZSL) by leveraging large-scale visual-text pair datasets. However, these methods often lack interpretability, as they compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shiming Chen , Bowen Duan , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Recent large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding and generating textual descriptions for visual content. However, these models lack an understanding of user-specific concepts. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yuval Alaluf , Elad Richardson , Sergey Tulyakov , Kfir Aberman , Daniel Cohen-Or

Vision-language foundation models such as CLIP have achieved tremendous results in global vision-language alignment, but still show some limitations in creating representations for specific image regions. % To address this problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Walid Bousselham , Sofian Chaybouti , Christian Rupprecht , Vittorio Ferrari , Hilde Kuehne

AI in dermatology is evolving at a rapid pace but the major limitation to training trustworthy classifiers is the scarcity of data with ground-truth concept level labels, which are meta-labels semantically meaningful to humans. Foundation…

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