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Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) methods are trained with normal (or healthy) images only, but during testing, they are able to classify normal and abnormal (or disease) images. UAD is an important medical image analysis (MIA) method to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-16 Yu Tian , Fengbei Liu , Guansong Pang , Yuanhong Chen , Yuyuan Liu , Johan W. Verjans , Rajvinder Singh , Gustavo Carneiro

Supervised deep learning techniques show promise in medical image analysis. However, they require comprehensive annotated data sets, which poses challenges, particularly for rare diseases. Consequently, unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Finn Behrendt , Debayan Bhattacharya , Lennart Maack , Julia Krüger , Roland Opfer , Robin Mieling , Alexander Schlaefer

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

Lesion detection in brain Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) remains a challenging task. MRIs are typically read and interpreted by domain experts, which is a tedious and time-consuming process. Recently, unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Marcel Bengs , Finn Behrendt , Max-Heinrich Laves , Julia Krüger , Roland Opfer , Alexander Schlaefer

Applying machine learning to real-world medical data, e.g. from hospital archives, has the potential to revolutionize disease detection in brain images. However, detecting pathology in such heterogeneous cohorts is a difficult challenge.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Ana Lawry Aguila , Ayodeji Ijishakin , Juan Eugenio Iglesias , Tomomi Takenaga , Yukihiro Nomura , Takeharu Yoshikawa , Osamu Abe , Shouhei Hanaoka

Anomaly detection in medical imaging is a challenging task in contexts where abnormalities are not annotated. This problem can be addressed through unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) methods, which identify features that do not match with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-07 Geoffroy Oudoumanessah , Carole Lartizien , Michel Dojat , Florence Forbes

Anomaly detection in images plays a significant role for many applications across all industries, such as disease diagnosis in healthcare or quality assurance in manufacturing. Manual inspection of images, when extended over a monotonously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Vincent Wilmet , Sauraj Verma , Tabea Redl , Håkon Sandaker , Zhenning Li

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection has become a popular method to detect pathologies in medical images as it does not require supervision or labels for training. Most commonly, the anomaly detection model generates a "normal" version of an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Felix Meissen , Johannes Paetzold , Georgios Kaissis , Daniel Rueckert

Detection of various lesions in brain MRI is clinically critical, but challenging due to the diversity of lesions and variability in imaging conditions. Current unsupervised learning methods detect anomalies mainly through reconstructing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Tao Yang , Xiuying Wang , Hao Liu , Guanzhong Gong , Lian-Ming Wu , Yu-Ping Wang , Lisheng Wang

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

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD) methods rely on healthy data distributions to identify anomalies as outliers. In brain MRI, a common approach is reconstruction-based UAD, where generative models reconstruct healthy brain MRIs, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-18 Finn Behrendt , Debayan Bhattacharya , Robin Mieling , Lennart Maack , Julia Krüger , Roland Opfer , Alexander Schlaefer

Unsupervised learning can leverage large-scale data sources without the need for annotations. In this context, deep learning-based auto encoders have shown great potential in detecting anomalies in medical images. However, state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-17 David Zimmerer , Simon A. A. Kohl , Jens Petersen , Fabian Isensee , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD) with incremental training is crucial in industrial manufacturing, as unpredictable defects make obtaining sufficient labeled data infeasible. However, continual learning methods primarily rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Jiaqi Liu , Kai Wu , Qiang Nie , Ying Chen , Bin-Bin Gao , Yong Liu , Jinbao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Feng Zheng

Congenital malformations of the brain are among the most common fetal abnormalities that impact fetal development. Previous anomaly detection methods on ultrasound images are based on supervised learning, rely on manual annotations, and…

The essence of unsupervised anomaly detection is to learn the compact distribution of normal samples and detect outliers as anomalies in testing. Meanwhile, the anomalies in real-world are usually subtle and fine-grained in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Ye Zheng , Xiang Wang , Rui Deng , Tianpeng Bao , Rui Zhao , Liwei Wu

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) presents a complementary alternative to supervised learning for brain tumor segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), particularly when annotated datasets are limited, costly, or inconsistent. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Gerard Comas-Quiles , Carles Garcia-Cabrera , Julia Dietlmeier , Noel E. O'Connor , Ferran Marques

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

Traditional reconstruction-based methods have struggled to achieve competitive performance in anomaly detection. In this paper, we introduce Denoising Diffusion Anomaly Detection (DDAD), a novel denoising process for image reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Arian Mousakhan , Thomas Brox , Jawad Tayyub

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is a crucial technique in neuroimaging studies, allowing for the non-invasive probing of the underlying structures of brain tissues. Clinical dMRI data is susceptible to various artifacts during…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Sheng Chen , Zihao Tang , Xinyi Wang , Chenyu Wang , Weidong Cai

Deep anomaly detection methods learn representations that separate between normal and anomalous images. Although self-supervised representation learning is commonly used, small dataset sizes limit its effectiveness. It was previously shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Tal Reiss , Yedid Hoshen