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The application of machine learning in medicine and healthcare has led to the creation of numerous diagnostic and prognostic models. However, despite their success, current approaches generally issue predictions using data from a single…

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Bias in computer vision models remains a significant challenge, often resulting in unfair, unreliable, and non-generalizable AI systems. Although research into bias mitigation has intensified, progress continues to be hindered by fragmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Ioannis Sarridis , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos , Christos Diou

Biased information (recently termed bisinformation) continues to be taught in medical curricula, often long after having been debunked. In this paper, we introduce BRICC, a firstin-class initiative that seeks to mitigate medical…

Multimodal AI models capable of associating images and text hold promise for numerous domains, ranging from automated image captioning to accessibility applications for blind and low-vision users. However, uncertainty about bias has in some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Robert Wolfe , Aayushi Dangol , Alexis Hiniker , Bill Howe

Bias in medical AI is often framed as a problem of representation. However, in image-based tasks such as fetal ultrasound, performance disparities can arise even when representation is adequate, because predictive accuracy depends strongly…

While powerful in image-conditioned generation, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can display uneven performance across demographic groups, highlighting fairness risks. In safety-critical clinical settings, such disparities risk…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Mahesh Bhosale , Abdul Wasi , Shantam Srivastava , Shifa Latif , Tianyu Luan , Mingchen Gao , David Doermann , Xuan Gong

Multimodal learning leverages complementary information derived from different modalities, thereby enhancing performance in medical image segmentation. However, prevailing multimodal learning methods heavily rely on extensive well-annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Xiaogen Zhou , Yiyou Sun , Min Deng , Winnie Chiu Wing Chu , Qi Dou

Deep Learning has advanced significantly in medical applications, aiding disease diagnosis in Chest X-ray images. However, expanding model capabilities with new data remains a challenge, which Continual Learning (CL) aims to address.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Marina Ceccon , Davide Dalle Pezze , Alessandro Fabris , Gian Antonio Susto

Medical diagnostic applications require models that can process multimodal medical inputs (images, patient histories, lab results) and generate diverse outputs including both textual reports and visual content (annotations, segmentation…

Dermatological diseases are among the most common disorders worldwide. This paper presents the first study of the interpretability and imbalanced semi-supervised learning of the multiclass intelligent skin diagnosis framework (ISDL) using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Futian Weng , Yuanting Ma , Jinghan Sun , Shijun Shan , Qiyuan Li , Jianping Zhu , Yang Wang , Yan Xu

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly influencing health and healthcare, but bias and poor performance persists for populations who face widespread structural oppression. Previous work has clearly outlined the need for more…

Human society had a long history of suffering from cognitive biases leading to social prejudices and mass injustice. The prevalent existence of cognitive biases in large volumes of historical data can pose a threat of being manifested as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Procheta Sen , Debasis Ganguly

Biases in automated clinical decision-making using Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) impose significant disparities in patient care and treatment outcomes. Conventional approaches have primarily focused on bias mitigation strategies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Resmi Ramachandranpillai , Kishore Sampath , Ayaazuddin Mohammad , Malihe Alikhani

The subject of "fairness" in artificial intelligence (AI) refers to assessing AI algorithms for potential bias based on demographic characteristics such as race and gender, and the development of algorithms to address this bias. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Esther Puyol-Anton , Bram Ruijsink , Stefan K. Piechnik , Stefan Neubauer , Steffen E. Petersen , Reza Razavi , Andrew P. King

It is imperative that breast cancer is detected precisely and timely to improve patient outcomes. Diagnostic methodologies have traditionally relied on unimodal approaches; however, medical data analytics is integrating diverse data sources…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Faseela Abdullakutty , Younes Akbari , Somaya Al-Maadeed , Ahmed Bouridane , Rifat Hamoudi

Diagnosing and managing oral diseases necessitate advanced visual interpretation across diverse imaging modalities and integrated information synthesis. While current AI models excel at isolated tasks, they often fall short in addressing…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to transform healthcare delivery through revolutionary advances in clinical decision support and diagnostic capabilities. While human expertise remains foundational to medical practice, AI-powered…

The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) and large vision models (LVMs) have propelled the evolution of multi-modal AI systems, which have demonstrated the remarkable potential for industrial applications by emulating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Di Jin , Xing Liu , Yu Liu , Jia Qing Yap , Andrea Wong , Adriana Crespo , Qi Lin , Zhiyuan Yin , Qiang Yan , Ryan Ye

Precision medicine has the potential to tailor treatment decisions to individual patients using machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), but it faces significant challenges due to complex biases in clinical observational data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Michael Vollenweider , Manuel Schürch , Chiara Rohrer , Gabriele Gut , Michael Krauthammer , Andreas Wicki

Vision language models (VLMs) show promise in medical diagnosis, but their performance across demographic subgroups when using in-context learning (ICL) remains poorly understood. We examine how the demographic composition of demonstration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Sonnet Xu , Joseph Janizek , Yixing Jiang , Roxana Daneshjou