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Single neurons in neural networks are often interpretable in that they represent individual, intuitively meaningful features. However, many neurons exhibit $\textit{mixed selectivity}$, i.e., they represent multiple unrelated features. A…

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Interpretation and explanation of deep models is critical towards wide adoption of systems that rely on them. In this paper, we propose a novel scheme for both interpretation as well as explanation in which, given a pretrained model, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Jose Oramas , Kaili Wang , Tinne Tuytelaars

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models for learning latent representations. Standard VAEs generate dispersed and unstructured latent spaces by utilizing all dimensions, which limits their interpretability, especially…

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Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs) offer insights into neural network decision-making by linking human friendly concepts to the model's internal feature extraction process. However, when a new set of CAVs is discovered, they must still be…

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Live-cell imaging of multiple subcellular structures is essential for understanding subcellular dynamics. However, the conventional multi-color sequential fluorescence microscopy suffers from significant imaging delays and limited number of…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-13 Mingyang Chen , Luhong Jin , Xuwei Xuan , Defu Yang , Yun Cheng , Ju Zhang

Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs) provide a powerful approach for interpreting deep neural networks by quantifying their sensitivity to human-defined concepts. However, when computed independently at different layers, CAVs often exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Zhenghao He , Sanchit Sinha , Guangzhi Xiong , Aidong Zhang

Recently, deep neural networks have greatly advanced histopathology image segmentation but usually require abundant annotated data. However, due to the gigapixel scale of whole slide images and pathologists' heavy daily workload, obtaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Wentao Pan , Jiangpeng Yan , Hanbo Chen , Jiawei Yang , Zhe Xu , Xiu Li , Jianhua Yao

Deep learning has been successfully applied to medical image segmentation, enabling accurate identification of regions of interest such as organs and lesions. This approach works effectively across diverse datasets, including those with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Tianyi Ren , Juampablo Heras Rivera , Hitender Oswal , Yutong Pan , Agamdeep Chopra , Jacob Ruzevick , Mehmet Kurt

Purpose: To determine whether deep learning models can distinguish between breast cancer molecular subtypes based on dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI). Materials and methods: In this institutional review…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Zhe Zhu , Ehab Albadawy , Ashirbani Saha , Jun Zhang , Michael R. Harowicz , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Cell classification and counting in immunohistochemical cytoplasm staining images play a pivotal role in cancer diagnosis. Weakly supervised learning is a potential method to deal with labor-intensive labeling. However, the inconstant cell…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Shichuan Zhang , Chenglu Zhu , Honglin Li , Jiatong Cai , Lin Yang

The rapidly emerging field of computational pathology has the potential to enable objective diagnosis, therapeutic response prediction and identification of new morphological features of clinical relevance. However, deep learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-25 Ming Y. Lu , Drew F. K. Williamson , Tiffany Y. Chen , Richard J. Chen , Matteo Barbieri , Faisal Mahmood

As an emerging field in Machine Learning, Explainable AI (XAI) has been offering remarkable performance in interpreting the decisions made by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). To achieve visual explanations for CNNs, methods based on…

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The quality of diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening relies on the ability to correctly grade severity; however, many deep-learning (DL) classifiers cannot be easily interpreted in the clinical context. This study presents a methodology that…

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Convolutional neural network (CNN) models for computer vision are powerful but lack explainability in their most basic form. This deficiency remains a key challenge when applying CNNs in important domains. Recent work on explanations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Ruihan Zhang , Prashan Madumal , Tim Miller , Krista A. Ehinger , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

Medical images differ from natural images in significantly higher resolutions and smaller regions of interest. Because of these differences, neural network architectures that work well for natural images might not be applicable to medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yiqiu Shen , Nan Wu , Jason Phang , Jungkyu Park , Kangning Liu , Sudarshini Tyagi , Laura Heacock , S. Gene Kim , Linda Moy , Kyunghyun Cho , Krzysztof J. Geras

In this study, we present an interpretable deep learning framework for the early detection of breast cancer using quantitative features extracted from digitized fine needle aspirate (FNA) images of breast masses. Our deep neural network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Bishal Chhetri , B. V. Rathish Kumar

Deep learning based analysis of histopathology images shows promise in advancing the understanding of tumor progression, tumor micro-environment, and their underpinning biological processes. So far, these approaches have focused on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Adalberto Claudio Quiros , Nicolas Coudray , Anna Yeaton , Wisuwat Sunhem , Roderick Murray-Smith , Aristotelis Tsirigos , Ke Yuan

A feature learning task involves training models that are capable of inferring good representations (transformations of the original space) from input data alone. When working with limited or unlabelled data, and also when multiple visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Gabriel B. Cavallari , Leonardo Sampaio Ferraz Ribeiro , Moacir Antonelli Ponti

Explainable AI (XAI) in medical histopathology is essential for enhancing the interpretability and clinical trustworthiness of deep learning models in cancer diagnosis. However, the black-box nature of these models often limits their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Raktim Kumar Mondol , Ewan K. A. Millar , Peter H. Graham , Lois Browne , Arcot Sowmya , Erik Meijering

With the remarkable success of representation learning for prediction problems, we have witnessed a rapid expansion of the use of machine learning and deep learning for the analysis of digital pathology and biopsy image patches. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Mohammad Ali Armin , Simon Denman , Clinton Fookes , Lars Petersson