English
Related papers

Related papers: Guided Reconstruction with Conditioned Diffusion M…

200 papers

Recent advancements in diffusion models have demonstrated significant success in unsupervised anomaly segmentation. For anomaly segmentation, these models are first trained on normal data; then, an anomalous image is noised to an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Mehrdad Moradi , Kamran Paynabar

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD) is a key data mining problem owing to its wide real-world applications. Due to the complete absence of supervision signals, UAD methods rely on implicit assumptions about anomalous patterns (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Hangting Ye , Zhining Liu , Xinyi Shen , Wei Cao , Shun Zheng , Xiaofan Gui , Huishuai Zhang , Yi Chang , Jiang Bian

Video anomaly detection (VAD) is a vital yet complex open-set task in computer vision, commonly tackled through reconstruction-based methods. However, these methods struggle with two key limitations: (1) insufficient robustness in open-set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Xiaofeng Tan , Hongsong Wang , Xin Geng , Liang Wang

Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) has been an important area of research for decades, with reconstruction-based methods, mostly based on generative models, gaining popularity and demonstrating success. Diffusion models have recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Kohei Obata , Zheng Chen , Yasuko Matsubara , Lingwei Zhu , Yasushi Sakurai

Reliably modeling normality and differentiating abnormal appearances from normal cases is a very appealing approach for detecting pathologies in medical images. A plethora of such unsupervised anomaly detection approaches has been made in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Christoph Baur , Benedikt Wiestler , Shadi Albarqouni , Nassir Navab

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

Unsupervised out-of-distribution (OOD) detection aims to identify out-of-domain data by learning only from unlabeled In-Distribution (ID) training samples, which is crucial for developing a safe real-world machine learning system. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ying Yang , De Cheng , Chaowei Fang , Yubiao Wang , Changzhe Jiao , Lechao Cheng , Nannan Wang

Detecting anomalies in brain MRI scans using supervised deep learning methods presents challenges due to anatomical diversity and labor-intensive requirement of pixel-level annotations. Generative models like Denoising Diffusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Vivek Kumar Trivedi , Bheeshm Sharma , P. Balamurugan

The detection and localization of anomalies is one important medical image analysis task. Most commonly, Computer Vision anomaly detection approaches rely on manual annotations that are both time consuming and expensive to obtain.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Sergio Naval Marimont , Giacomo Tarroni

It can be challenging to identify brain MRI anomalies using supervised deep-learning techniques due to anatomical heterogeneity and the requirement for pixel-level labeling. Unsupervised anomaly detection approaches provide an alternative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-30 Hasan Iqbal , Umar Khalid , Jing Hua , Chen Chen

Anomaly detection is an emerging approach in digital pathology for its ability to efficiently and effectively utilize data for disease diagnosis. While supervised learning approaches deliver high accuracy, they rely on extensively annotated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Jiamu Wang , Keunho Byeon , Jinsol Song , Anh Nguyen , Sangjeong Ahn , Sung Hak Lee , Jin Tae Kwak

Medical anomaly detection is a crucial yet challenging task aimed at recognizing abnormal images to assist in diagnosis. Due to the high-cost annotations of abnormal images, most methods utilize only known normal images during training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yu Cai , Hao Chen , Xin Yang , Yu Zhou , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as a powerful class of generative AI models, showing remarkable potential in anomaly detection (AD) tasks across various domains, such as cybersecurity, fraud detection, healthcare, and manufacturing. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jing Liu , Zhenchao Ma , Zepu Wang , Chenxuanyin Zou , Jiayang Ren , Zehua Wang , Liang Song , Bo Hu , Yang Liu , Victor C. M. Leung

Robust and accurate detection and segmentation of heterogenous tumors appearing in different anatomical organs with supervised methods require large-scale labeled datasets covering all possible types of diseases. Due to the unavailability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Mehdi Astaraki , Francesca De Benetti , Yousef Yeganeh , Iuliana Toma-Dasu , Örjan Smedby , Chunliang Wang , Nassir Navab , Thomas Wendler

The high performance of denoising diffusion models for image generation has paved the way for their application in unsupervised medical anomaly detection. As diffusion-based methods require a lot of GPU memory and have long sampling times,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Julia Wolleb , Florentin Bieder , Paul Friedrich , Peter Zhang , Alicia Durrer , Philippe C. Cattin

As advancements in the field of breast cancer treatment continue to progress, the assessment of post-surgical cosmetic outcomes has gained increasing significance due to its substantial impact on patients' quality of life. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Sangjoon Park , Yong Bae Kim , Jee Suk Chang , Seo Hee Choi , Hyungjin Chung , Ik Jae Lee , Hwa Kyung Byun

In breast ultrasound images, precise lesion segmentation is essential for early diagnosis; however, low contrast, speckle noise, and unclear boundaries make this difficult. Even though deep learning models have demonstrated potential,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Prateek Singh , Moumita Dholey , P. K. Vinod

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) is a widely adopted approach in industry due to rare anomaly occurrences and data imbalance. A desirable characteristic of an UAD model is contained generalization ability which excels in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 YeongHyeon Park , Sungho Kang , Myung Jin Kim , Hyeonho Jeong , Hyunkyu Park , Hyeong Seok Kim , Juneho Yi

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) plays a vital role in both clinical diagnostics and neuroscience research. However, its inherently low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), especially under high diffusion weighting, significantly…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-27 Jine Xie , Zhicheng Zhang , Yunwei Chen , Yanqiu Feng , Xinyuan Zhang

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) plays an important role in modern data analytics and it is crucial to provide simple yet effective and guaranteed UAD algorithms for real applications. In this paper, we present a novel UAD method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Wei Dai , Kai Hwang , Jicong Fan