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Deep learning models in medical imaging face dual challenges: domain shift, where models perform poorly when deployed in settings different from their training environment, and class imbalance, where certain disease conditions are naturally…

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In AI-based histopathology, domain shifts are common and well-studied. However, this research focuses on stain and scanner variations, which do not show the full picture -- shifts may be combinations of other shifts, or "invisible" shifts…

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The need for training data can impede the adoption of novel imaging modalities for learning-based medical image analysis. Domain adaptation methods partially mitigate this problem by translating training data from a related source domain to…

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Bias remains a major barrier to the clinical adoption of AI in dermatology, as diagnostic models underperform on darker skin tones. We present LesionTABE, a fairness-centric framework that couples adversarial debiasing with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Rocio Mexia Diaz , Yasmin Greenway , Petru Manescu

Skin cancer is considered to be the most common human malignancy. Around 5 million new cases of skin cancer are recorded in the United States annually. Early identification and evaluation of skin lesions is of great clinical significance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Rajeev Kumar Singh , Rohan Gorantla , Sai Giridhar Allada , Narra Pratap

In medical imaging, the heterogeneity of multi-centre data impedes the applicability of deep learning-based methods and results in significant performance degradation when applying models in an unseen data domain, e.g. a new centreor a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Hongwei Li , Timo Loehr , Anjany Sekuboyina , Jianguo Zhang , Benedikt Wiestler , Bjoern Menze

Skin cancer is one of the most common types of malignancy, affecting a large population and causing a heavy economic burden worldwide. Over the last few years, computer-aided diagnosis has been rapidly developed and make great progress in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Yongwei Wang , Yuheng Wang , Tim K. Lee , Chunyan Miao , Z. Jane Wang

Skin color has historically been a focal point of discrimination, yet fairness research in machine learning for medical imaging often relies on coarse subgroup categories, overlooking individual-level variations. Such group-based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Kuniko Paxton , Zeinab Dehghani , Koorosh Aslansefat , Dhavalkumar Thakker , Yiannis Papadopoulos

Melanoma is not the most common form of skin cancer, but it is the most deadly. Currently, the disease is diagnosed by expert dermatologists, which is costly and requires timely access to medical treatment. Recent advances in deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Emma Rocheteau , Doyoon Kim

AI-based diagnoses have demonstrated dermatologist-level performance in classifying skin cancer. However, such systems are prone to under-performing when tested on data from minority groups that lack sufficient representation in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Janet Wang , Yunsung Chung , Zhengming Ding , Jihun Hamm

Supervised learning with large scale labeled datasets and deep layered models has made a paradigm shift in diverse areas in learning and recognition. However, this approach still suffers generalization issues under the presence of a domain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-03-28 Ozan Sener , Hyun Oh Song , Ashutosh Saxena , Silvio Savarese

AI-based systems have achieved high accuracy in skin disease diagnostics but often exhibit biases across demographic groups, leading to inequitable healthcare outcomes and diminished patient trust. Most existing bias mitigation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Gelei Xu , Yuying Duan , Zheyuan Liu , Xueyang Li , Meng Jiang , Michael Lemmon , Wei Jin , Yiyu Shi

Deep learning has demonstrated remarkable performance across various tasks in medical imaging. However, these approaches primarily focus on supervised learning, assuming that the training and testing data are drawn from the same…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-03 Suruchi Kumari , Pravendra Singh

During an infectious disease pandemic, it is critical to share electronic medical records or models (learned from these records) across regions. Applying one region's data/model to another region often have distribution shift issues that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Ye Ye , Andrew Gu

Thanks to digitization of industrial assets in fleets, the ambitious goal of transferring fault diagnosis models fromone machine to the other has raised great interest. Solving these domain adaptive transfer learning tasks has the potential…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-16 Qin Wang , Gabriel Michau , Olga Fink

Melanoma is a prevalent lethal type of cancer that is treatable if diagnosed at early stages of development. Skin lesions are a typical indicator for diagnosing melanoma but they often led to delayed diagnosis due to high similarities of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Ruitong Sun , Mohammad Rostami

Skin cancer can be identified by dermoscopic examination and ocular inspection, but early detection significantly increases survival chances. Artificial intelligence (AI), using annotated skin images and Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Abdullah Al Shafi , Abdul Muntakim , Pintu Chandra Shill , Rowzatul Zannat , Abdullah Al-Amin

Convolutional Neural Networks have demonstrated human-level performance in the classification of melanoma and other skin lesions, but evident performance disparities between differing skin tones should be addressed before widespread…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Peter J. Bevan , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

Supervised deep learning models often achieve excellent performance within their training distribution but struggle to generalize beyond it. In cancer histopathology, for example, a convolutional neural network (CNN) may classify cancer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Justin Cheung , Samuel Savine , Calvin Nguyen , Lin Lu , Alhassan S. Yasin

If our models are used in new or unexpected cases, do we know if they will make fair predictions? Previously, researchers developed ways to debias a model for a single problem domain. However, this is often not how models are trained and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Candice Schumann , Xuezhi Wang , Alex Beutel , Jilin Chen , Hai Qian , Ed H. Chi