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There is a clear need to involve patients in medical decisions. However, cognitive psychological research has highlighted the cognitive limitations of humans with respect to 1. Probabilistic assessment of the patient state and of potential…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Yuval Shahar

In order to train, test, and evaluate nudity detection models, machine learning researchers typically rely on nude images scraped from the Internet. Our research finds that this content is collected and, in some cases, subsequently…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Princessa Cintaqia , Arshia Arya , Elissa M Redmiles , Deepak Kumar , Allison McDonald , Lucy Qin

Recent advances in diffusion models have enabled the creation of deceptively real images, posing significant security risks when misused. In this study, we empirically show that different timesteps of DDIM inversion reveal varying subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yixin Wu , Feiran Zhang , Tianyuan Shi , Ruicheng Yin , Zhenghua Wang , Zhenliang Gan , Xiaohua Wang , Changze Lv , Xiaoqing Zheng , Xuanjing Huang

Background: Robot-assisted surgery has been widely adopted in recent years. However, compared to other health technologies operating in close proximity to patients in a vulnerable state, ethical issues of robot-assisted surgery have…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Joschka Haltaufderheide , Stefanie Pfisterer-Heise , Dawid Pieper , Robert Ranisch

Medical image analysis is a vibrant research area that offers doctors and medical practitioners invaluable insight and the ability to accurately diagnose and monitor disease. Machine learning provides an additional boost for this area.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Athanasios Vlontzos , Daniel Rueckert , Bernhard Kainz

Ensuring equitable Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare demands systems that make unbiased decisions across all demographic groups, bridging technical innovation with ethical principles. Foundation Models (FMs), trained on vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Dilermando Queiroz , Anderson Carlos , André Anjos , Lilian Berton

Several high-profile events, such as the mass testing of emotion recognition systems on vulnerable sub-populations and using question answering systems to make moral judgments, have highlighted how technology will often lead to more adverse…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Saif M. Mohammad

With the ever-growing power of generative artificial intelligence, deepfake and artificially generated (synthetic) media have continued to spread online, which creates various ethical and moral concerns regarding their usage. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Shahzeb Naeem , Ramzi Al-Sharawi , Muhammad Riyyan Khan , Usman Tariq , Abhinav Dhall , Hasan Al-Nashash

Medical students will almost inevitably encounter powerful medical AI systems early in their careers. Yet, contemporary medical education does not adequately equip students with the basic clinical proficiency in medical AI needed to use…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Thomas P Quinn , Simon Coghlan

An emerging theme in artificial intelligence research is the creation of models to simulate the decisions and behavior of specific people, in domains including game-playing, text generation, and artistic expression. These models go beyond…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Reid McIlroy-Young , Jon Kleinberg , Siddhartha Sen , Solon Barocas , Ashton Anderson

Sharing data can often enable compelling applications and analytics. However, more often than not, valuable datasets contain information of a sensitive nature, and thus, sharing them can endanger the privacy of users and organizations. A…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Emiliano De Cristofaro

Clinical decision making requires counterfactual reasoning based on a factual medical image and thus necessitates causal image synthesis. To this end, we present a novel method for modeling the causality between demographic variables,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Yujia Li , Jiong Shi , S. Kevin Zhou

The deployment of large language models (LLMs) in mental health and other sensitive domains raises urgent questions about ethical reasoning, fairness, and responsible alignment. Yet, existing benchmarks for moral and clinical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Sai Kartheek Reddy Kasu

In recent years, the machine learning research community has benefited tremendously from the availability of openly accessible benchmark datasets. Clinical data are usually not openly available due to their highly confidential nature. This…

Multiple imaging modalities are often used for disease diagnosis, prediction, or population-based analyses. However, not all modalities might be available due to cost, different study designs, or changes in imaging technology. If the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Boqi Chen , Marc Niethammer

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

A long-standing challenge in developing machine learning approaches has been the lack of high-quality labeled data. Recently, models trained with purely synthetic data, here termed synthetic clones, generated using large-scale pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Krishnakant Singh , Thanush Navaratnam , Jannik Holmer , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

Advances in face synthesis have raised alarms about the deceptive use of synthetic faces. Can synthetic identities be effectively used to fool human observers? In this paper, we introduce a study of the human perception of synthetic faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Bingyu Shen , Brandon RichardWebster , Alice O'Toole , Kevin Bowyer , Walter J. Scheirer

This article reviews the landscape of ethical challenges of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into smart healthcare products, including medical electronic devices. Differences between traditional ethics in the medical domain and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Sudeep Pasricha

In many clinical settings, the use of both Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance (MRI) is necessary to pursue a thorough understanding of the patient's anatomy and to plan a suitable therapeutical strategy; this is often the case…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Leonardo Crespi , Samuele Camnasio , Damiano Dei , Nicola Lambri , Pietro Mancosu , Marta Scorsetti , Daniele Loiacono