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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…

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Anomaly detection for Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) can be solved with unsupervised methods by learning the distribution of healthy images and identifying anomalies as outliers. In presence of an additional dataset of unlabelled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Alexandra-Ioana Albu , Alina Enescu , Luigi Malagò

Many anomaly detection approaches, especially deep learning methods, have been recently developed to identify abnormal image morphology by only employing normal images during training. Unfortunately, many prior anomaly detection methods…

An assumption-free automatic check of medical images for potentially overseen anomalies would be a valuable assistance for a radiologist. Deep learning and especially Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) have shown great potential in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-12 David Zimmerer , Fabian Isensee , Jens Petersen , Simon Kohl , Klaus Maier-Hein

In medical imaging, anomaly detection is a vital element of healthcare diagnostics, especially for neurological conditions which can be life-threatening. Conventional deterministic methods often fall short when it comes to capturing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Dip Roy

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…

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Anomaly detection in medical imaging is to distinguish the relevant biomarkers of diseases from those of normal tissues. Deep supervised learning methods have shown potentials in various detection tasks, but its performances would be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-01 Byungjai Kim , Kinam Kwon , Changheun Oh , Hyunwook Park

Automated anomaly detection from medical images, such as MRIs and X-rays, can significantly reduce human effort in disease diagnosis. Owing to the complexity of modeling anomalies and the high cost of manual annotation by domain experts…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee , Jay Shah , Teresa Wu , Catherine Chong , Todd Schwedt , Baoxin Li

Anomaly detection (AD) is the identification of data samples that do not fit a learned data distribution. As such, AD systems can help physicians to determine the presence, severity, and extension of a pathology. Deep generative models,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-12 Jaime Simarro , Ezequiel de la Rosa , Thijs Vande Vyvere , David Robben , Diana M. Sima

The use of supervised deep learning techniques to detect pathologies in brain MRI scans can be challenging due to the diversity of brain anatomy and the need for annotated data sets. An alternative approach is to use unsupervised anomaly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Finn Behrendt , Debayan Bhattacharya , Julia Krüger , Roland Opfer , Alexander Schlaefer

Anomaly detection (AD) aims at detecting abnormal samples that deviate from the expected normal patterns. Generally, it can be trained merely on normal data, without a requirement for abnormal samples, and thereby plays an important role in…

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The identification and quantification of markers in medical images is critical for diagnosis, prognosis and management of patients in clinical practice. Supervised- or weakly supervised training enables the detection of findings that are…

With the development of medical imaging technology, medical images have become an important basis for doctors to diagnose patients. The brain structure in the collected data is complicated, thence, doctors are required to spend plentiful…

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The goal of unsupervised anomaly segmentation (UAS) is to detect the pixel-level anomalies unseen during training. It is a promising field in the medical imaging community, e.g, we can use the model trained with only healthy data to segment…

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Deep unsupervised anomaly detection in brain magnetic resonance imaging offers a promising route to identify pathological deviations without requiring lesion-specific annotations. Yet, fragmented evaluations, heterogeneous datasets, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Alexander Frotscher , Christian F. Baumgartner , Thomas Wolfers

Anomalies are by definition rare, thus labeled examples are very limited or nonexistent, and likely do not cover unforeseen scenarios. Unsupervised learning methods that don't necessarily encounter anomalies in training would be immensely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Louise Naud , Alexander Lavin

Unsupervised anomaly detection plays a pivotal role in industrial defect inspection and medical image analysis, with most methods relying on the reconstruction framework. However, these methods may suffer from over-generalization, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Wei Luo , Peng Xing , Yunkang Cao , Haiming Yao , Weiming Shen , Zechao Li

Anomalies can be defined as any non-random structure which deviates from normality. Anomaly detection methods reported in the literature are numerous and diverse, as what is considered anomalous usually varies depending on particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Matias Tailanian , Pablo Musé , Álvaro Pardo

Data-driven machine learning has made significant strides in medical image analysis. However, most existing methods are tailored to specific modalities and assume a particular resolution (often isotropic). This limits their generalizability…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Peirong Liu , Ana Lawry Aguila , Juan E. Iglesias