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Class imbalance poses a significant challenge to supervised classification, particularly in critical domains like medical diagnostics and anomaly detection where minority class instances are rare. While numerous studies have explored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Ali Nawaz , Amir Ahmad , Shehroz S. Khan

Class imbalance in binary classification tasks remains a significant challenge in machine learning, often resulting in poor performance on minority classes. This study comprehensively evaluates three widely-used strategies for handling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mohamed Abdelhamid , Abhyuday Desai

Multimodal learning has gained attention for its capacity to integrate information from different modalities. However, it is often hindered by the multimodal imbalance problem, where certain modality dominates while others remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Shaoxuan Xu , Menglu Cui , Chengxiang Huang , Hongfa Wang , Di Hu

Automated detection and classification of cervical cells in conventional Pap smear images can strengthen cervical cancer screening at scale by reducing manual workload, improving triage, and increasing consistency across readers. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Lautaro Kogan , María Victoria Ríos

Weakly supervised anomaly detection (WSAD) has developed in three primary directions: incomplete, inexact, and inaccurate supervision. However, these directions remain isolated, lacking a unified framework to assess whether they address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xu Yao , Siyuan Zhou , Zhenbo Wu , Chaochuan Hou , Shuang Liang , Shiping Wang , Hailiang Huang , Songqiao Han , Minqi Jiang

In this article, we describe the design and implementation of a publicly accessible dermatology image analysis benchmark challenge. The goal of the challenge is to sup- port research and development of algorithms for automated diagnosis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-05 David Gutman , Noel C. F. Codella , Emre Celebi , Brian Helba , Michael Marchetti , Nabin Mishra , Allan Halpern

Due to the imbalanced and limited data, semi-supervised medical image segmentation methods often fail to produce superior performance for some specific tailed classes. Inadequate training for those particular classes could introduce more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Hritam Basak , Sagnik Ghosal , Ram Sarkar

In this paper we address imbalanced binary classification (IBC) tasks. Applying resampling strategies to balance the class distribution of training instances is a common approach to tackle these problems. Many state-of-the-art methods find…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Vitor Cerqueira , Luis Torgo , Paula Branco , Colin Bellinger

White balance (WB) algorithms in many commercial cameras assume single and uniform illumination, leading to undesirable results when multiple lighting sources with different chromaticities exist in the scene. Prior research on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Dongyoung Kim , Jinwoo Kim , Junsang Yu , Seon Joo Kim

Accurately classifying white blood cells from microscopic images is essential to identify several illnesses and conditions in medical diagnostics. Many deep learning technologies are being employed to quickly and automatically classify…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Tatwadarshi P. Nagarhalli , Shruti S. Pawar , Soham A. Dahanukar , Uday Aswalekar , Ashwini M. Save , Sanket D. Patil

Biomedical datasets are often constrained by stringent privacy requirements and frequently suffer from severe class imbalance. These two aspects hinder the development of accurate machine learning models. While generative AI offers a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jan Carreras Boada , Rao Muhammad Umer , Carsten Marr

As a research community, we are still lacking a systematic understanding of the progress on adversarial robustness which often makes it hard to identify the most promising ideas in training robust models. A key challenge in benchmarking…

Test set contamination, wherein test data from a benchmark ends up in a newer model's training set, is a well-documented obstacle for fair LLM evaluation and can quickly render benchmarks obsolete. To mitigate this, many recent benchmarks…

Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) helps physicians examine the gastrointestinal (GI) tract noninvasively. There are few studies that address pathological assessment of endoscopy images in multiclass classification and most of them are based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Mohammad Reza Mohebbian , Khan A. Wahid , Paul Babyn

Imbalanced datasets are commonplace in modern machine learning problems. The presence of under-represented classes or groups with sensitive attributes results in concerns about generalization and fairness. Such concerns are further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Mingchen Li , Xuechen Zhang , Christos Thrampoulidis , Jiasi Chen , Samet Oymak

Prevention and early diagnosis of breast cancer (BC) is an essential prerequisite for the selection of proper treatment. The substantial pressure due to the increase of demand for faster and more precise diagnostic results drives for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Peter Bokor , Lukas Hudec , Ondrej Fabian , Wanda Benesova

In this paper we present the methods of our submission to the ISIC 2018 challenge for skin lesion diagnosis (Task 3). The dataset consists of 10000 images with seven image-level classes to be distinguished by an automated algorithm. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Nils Gessert , Thilo Sentker , Frederic Madesta , Rüdiger Schmitz , Helge Kniep , Ivo Baltruschat , René Werner , Alexander Schlaefer

Data imbalance between common and rare diseases during model training often causes intelligent diagnosis systems to have biased predictions towards common diseases. The state-of-the-art approaches apply a two-stage learning framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Chenghua Zeng , Huijuan Lu , Kanghao Chen , Ruixuan Wang , Wei-Shi Zheng

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved great success in skin lesion classification. A balanced dataset is required to train a good model. However, due to the appearance of different skin lesions in practice, severe or even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Keyu Chen , Di Zhuang , J. Morris Chang

The robustness of supervised deep learning-based medical image classification is significantly undermined by label noise. Although several methods have been proposed to enhance classification performance in the presence of noisy labels,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Bidur Khanal , Tianhong Dai , Binod Bhattarai , Cristian Linte