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Chest imaging plays an essential role in diagnosing and predicting patients with COVID-19 with evidence of worsening respiratory status. Many deep learning-based approaches for pneumonia recognition have been developed to enable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Shengchao Chen , Sufen Ren , Guanjun Wang , Mengxing Huang , Chenyang Xue

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for computer vision sometimes struggle with understanding images in a global context, as they mainly focus on local patterns. On the other hand, Vision Transformers (ViTs), inspired by models originally…

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A major goal of neuroscience is to understand brain computations during visual processing in naturalistic settings. A dominant approach is to use image-computable deep neural networks trained with different task objectives as a basis for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-06 Hossein Adeli , Sun Minni , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

Vision Transformers (ViTs), with their ability to model long-range dependencies through self-attention mechanisms, have become a standard architecture in computer vision. However, the interpretability of these models remains a challenge. To…

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The brain is a highly complex organ that manages many important tasks, including movement, memory and thinking. Brain-related conditions, like tumors and degenerative disorders, can be hard to diagnose and treat. Magnetic Resonance Imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Shuvashis Sarker , Shamim Rahim Refat , Faika Fairuj Preotee , Shifat Islam , Tashreef Muhammad , Mohammad Ashraful Hoque

Diagnosing rare diseases presents a common challenge in clinical practice, necessitating the expertise of specialists for accurate identification. The advent of machine learning offers a promising solution, while the development of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yifan Wu , Yang Liu , Yue Yang , Michael S. Yao , Wenli Yang , Xuehui Shi , Lihong Yang , Dongjun Li , Yueming Liu , James C. Gee , Xuan Yang , Wenbin Wei , Shi Gu

Recent work has demonstrated that complex visual stimuli can be decoded from human brain activity using deep generative models, offering new ways to probe how the brain represents real-world scenes. However, many existing approaches first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Pinyuan Feng , Hossein Adeli , Wenxuan Guo , Fan Cheng , Ethan Hwang , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

Vision Transformers are at the heart of the current surge of interest in foundation models for histopathology. They process images by breaking them into smaller patches following a regular grid, regardless of their content. Yet, not all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Clément Grisi , Geert Litjens , Jeroen van der Laak

The importance of explainability in machine learning continues to grow, as both neural-network architectures and the data they model become increasingly complex. Unique challenges arise when a model's input features become high dimensional:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Damien de Mijolla , Christopher Frye , Markus Kunesch , John Mansir , Ilya Feige

Accurate prediction of medical conditions with straight past clinical evidence is a long-sought topic in the medical management and health insurance field. Although great progress has been made with machine learning algorithms, the medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Dongping Fang , Lian Duan , Xiaojing Yuan , Allyn Klunder , Kevin Tan , Suiting Cao , Yeqing Ji , Mike Xu

Data representation in non-Euclidean spaces has proven effective for capturing hierarchical and complex relationships in real-world datasets. Hyperbolic spaces, in particular, provide efficient embeddings for hierarchical structures. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jacob Fein-Ashley , Ethan Feng , Minh Pham

We present a deformable prototypical part network (Deformable ProtoPNet), an interpretable image classifier that integrates the power of deep learning and the interpretability of case-based reasoning. This model classifies input images by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Jon Donnelly , Alina Jade Barnett , Chaofan Chen

How do vision transformers (ViTs) represent and process the world? This paper addresses this long-standing question through the first systematic analysis of 6.6K features across all layers, extracted via sparse autoencoders, and by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jinyeong Kim , Junhyeok Kim , Yumin Shim , Joohyeok Kim , Sunyoung Jung , Seong Jae Hwang

Neural networks are growing more capable on their own, but we do not understand their neural mechanisms. Understanding these mechanisms' decision-making processes, or mechanistic interpretability, enables (1) accountability and control in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Mason Kadem , Rong Zheng

Vision transformers (ViTs) are widely employed in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for visual encoding. However, they exhibit inferior performance on tasks regarding fine-grained visual perception. We attribute this to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yipeng Zhang , Yifan Liu , Zonghao Guo , Yidan Zhang , Xuesong Yang , Xiaoying Zhang , Chi Chen , Jun Song , Bo Zheng , Yuan Yao , Zhiyuan Liu , Tat-Seng Chua , Maosong Sun

In this paper, we propose an explainable and interpretable diabetic retinopathy (ExplainDR) classification model based on neural-symbolic learning. To gain explainability, a highlevel symbolic representation should be considered in decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Se-In Jang , Michael J. A. Girard , Alexandre H. Thiery

Vision Transformers have excelled in computer vision but their attention mechanisms operate independently across layers, limiting information flow and feature learning. We propose an effective cross-layer attention propagation method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Swarnendu Banik , Manish Das , Shiv Ram Dubey , Satish Kumar Singh

The accurate analysis of medical images is vital for diagnosing and predicting medical conditions. Traditional approaches relying on radiologists and clinicians suffer from inconsistencies and missed diagnoses. Computer-aided diagnosis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Yulong Shisu , Susano Mingwin , Yongshuai Wanwag , Zengqiang Chenso , Sunshin Huing

Machine learning models achieve high precision, but their decision-making processes often lack explainability. Furthermore, as model complexity increases, explainability typically decreases. Existing efforts to improve explainability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Nicolas Echevarrieta-Catalan , Ana Ribas-Rodriguez , Francisco Cedron , Odelia Schwartz , Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido

Transformer has been applied in the field of computer vision due to its excellent performance in natural language processing, surpassing traditional convolutional neural networks and achieving new state-of-the-art. ViT divides an image into…

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