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The classification of medical images is a pivotal aspect of disease diagnosis, often enhanced by deep learning techniques. However, traditional approaches typically focus on unimodal medical image data, neglecting the integration of diverse…

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Automated interpretation of electrocardiograms (ECG) has garnered significant attention with the advancements in machine learning methodologies. Despite the growing interest, most current studies focus solely on classification or regression…

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Learning Electronic Health Records (EHRs) representation is a preeminent yet under-discovered research topic. It benefits various clinical decision support applications, e.g., medication outcome prediction or patient similarity search.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Hao-Ren Yao , Nairen Cao , Katina Russell , Der-Chen Chang , Ophir Frieder , Jeremy Fineman

Simultaneous electrocardiography (ECG) and phonocardiogram (PCG) provide a comprehensive, multimodal perspective on cardiac function by capturing the heart's electrical and mechanical activities, respectively. However, the distinct and…

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Chromosome recognition is an essential task in karyotyping, which plays a vital role in birth defect diagnosis and biomedical research. However, existing classification methods face significant challenges due to the inter-class similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Ruijia Chang , Suncheng Xiang , Chengyu Zhou , Kui Su , Dahong Qian , Jun Wang

Chest X-ray (CXR) radiology report generation (RRG) models have shown rapid progress on automated metrics, yet their clinical utility remains uncertain due to limited qualitative evaluation by radiologists. We present CXRMate-2, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Aaron Nicolson , Elizabeth J. Cooper , Hwan-Jin Yoon , Claire McCafferty , Ramya Krishnan , Michelle Craigie , Nivene Saad , Jason Dowling , Ian A. Scott , Bevan Koopman

Purpose: Chest X-rays are essential for diagnosing pulmonary conditions, but limited access in resource-constrained settings can delay timely diagnosis. Electrocardiograms (ECGs), in contrast, are widely available, non-invasive, and often…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Julia Matejas , Olaf Żurawski , Nils Strodthoff , Juan Miguel Lopez Alcaraz

Chest X-Ray (CXR) is a widely used clinical imaging modality and has a pivotal role in the diagnosis and prognosis of various lung and heart related conditions. Conventional automated clinical diagnostic tool design strategies relying on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-26 Abhijeet Parida , Daniel Capellan-Martin , Sara Atito , Muhammad Awais , Maria J. Ledesma-Carbayo , Marius G. Linguraru , Syed Muhammad Anwar

Automated interpretation of chest X-rays (CXR) is a critical task with the potential to significantly improve clinical workflow and patient care. While recent advances in multimodal foundation models have shown promise, effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Alexander Davis , Rafael Souza , Jia-Hao Lim

In Europe the 20% of the CT scans cover the thoracic region. The acquired images contain information about the cardiovascular system that often remains latent due to the lack of contrast in the cardiac area. On the other hand, the contrast…

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In intensive care units (ICUs), patients with complex clinical conditions require vigilant monitoring and prompt interventions. Chest X-rays (CXRs) are a vital diagnostic tool, providing insights into clinical trajectories, but their…

Objective: Electrocardiograms (ECGs) play a crucial role in diagnosing heart conditions; however, the effectiveness of artificial intelligence (AI)-based ECG analysis is often hindered by the limited availability of labeled data.…

Medical report generation is a challenging task since it is time-consuming and requires expertise from experienced radiologists. The goal of medical report generation is to accurately capture and describe the image findings. Previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Yu-Jen Chen , Wei-Hsiang Shen , Hao-Wei Chung , Ching-Hao Chiu , Da-Cheng Juan , Tsung-Ying Ho , Chi-Tung Cheng , Meng-Lin Li , Tsung-Yi Ho

Chest X-ray becomes one of the most common medical diagnoses due to its noninvasiveness. The number of chest X-ray images has skyrocketed, but reading chest X-rays still have been manually performed by radiologists, which creates huge…

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Medical image registration is a fundamental task in medical image analysis, enabling the alignment of images from different modalities or time points. However, intensity inconsistencies and nonlinear tissue deformations pose significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Eytan Kats , Christoph Grossbroehmer , Ziad Al-Haj Hemidi , Fenja Falta , Wiebke Heyer , Mattias P. Heinrich

Reconstructing a 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) from a reduced lead set is an ill-posed inverse problem due to anatomical variability. Standard deep learning methods often ignore underlying cardiac pathology losing vital morphology in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Youssef Youssef , Jitin Singla

Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are among the most widely used diagnostic tools for cardiovascular diseases, and a large amount of ECG data worldwide appears only in image form. However, most existing automated ECG analysis methods rely on access…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Hung Manh Pham , Jialu Tang , Aaqib Saeed , Dong Ma , Bin Zhu , Pan Zhou

We propose contrastive coding to learn shared, dense image representations, referred to as CoMIRs (Contrastive Multimodal Image Representations). CoMIRs enable the registration of multimodal images where existing registration methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Nicolas Pielawski , Elisabeth Wetzer , Johan Öfverstedt , Jiahao Lu , Carolina Wählby , Joakim Lindblad , Nataša Sladoje

The chest X-ray (CXR) is one of the most common and easy-to-get medical tests used to diagnose common diseases of the chest. Recently, many deep learning-based methods have been proposed that are capable of effectively classifying CXRs.…

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