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Discriminative classifiers have become a foundational tool in deep learning for medical imaging, excelling at learning separable features of complex data distributions. However, these models often need careful design, augmentation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Gian Mario Favero , Parham Saremi , Emily Kaczmarek , Brennan Nichyporuk , Tal Arbel

A common assumption in causal modeling posits that the data is generated by a set of independent mechanisms, and algorithms should aim to recover this structure. Standard unsupervised learning, however, is often concerned with training a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Francesco Locatello , Damien Vincent , Ilya Tolstikhin , Gunnar Rätsch , Sylvain Gelly , Bernhard Schölkopf

Counterfactual prediction methods are required when a model will be deployed in a setting where treatment policies differ from the setting where the model was developed, or when a model provides predictions under hypothetical interventions…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-13 Christopher B. Boyer , Issa J. Dahabreh , Jon A. Steingrimsson

We introduce a framework for learning robust visual representations that generalize to new viewpoints, backgrounds, and scene contexts. Discriminative models often learn naturally occurring spurious correlations, which cause them to fail on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Chengzhi Mao , Augustine Cha , Amogh Gupta , Hao Wang , Junfeng Yang , Carl Vondrick

Counterfactuals are a popular framework for interpreting machine learning predictions. These what if explanations are notoriously challenging to create for computer vision models: standard gradient-based methods are prone to produce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Jeremy Goldwasser , Giles Hooker

Counterfactual explanations emerge as a powerful approach in explainable AI, providing what-if scenarios that reveal how minimal changes to an input time series can alter the model's prediction. This work presents a survey of recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Udo Schlegel , Thomas Seidl

Scaling by training on large datasets has been shown to enhance the quality and fidelity of image generation and manipulation with diffusion models; however, such large datasets are not always accessible in medical imaging due to cost and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yousef Yeganeh , Azade Farshad , Ioannis Charisiadis , Marta Hasny , Martin Hartenberger , Björn Ommer , Nassir Navab , Ehsan Adeli

We propose a formal model for counterfactual estimation with unobserved confounding in "data-rich" settings, i.e., where there are a large number of units and a large number of measurements per unit. Our model provides a bridge between the…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-04-03 Alberto Abadie , Anish Agarwal , Devavrat Shah

Generative image models have achieved remarkable progress in both natural and medical imaging. In the medical context, these techniques offer a potential solution to data scarcity-especially for low-prevalence anomalies that impair the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Gregory Schuit , Denis Parra , Cecilia Besa

Although deep learning techniques show promising results for many neuroimaging tasks in research settings, they have not yet found widespread use in clinical scenarios. One of the reasons for this problem is that many machine learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-05 Vibujithan Vigneshwaran , Erik Ohara , Matthias Wilms , Nils Forkert

Evaluation of generative models has been an underrepresented field despite the surge of generative architectures. Most recent models are evaluated upon rather obsolete metrics which suffer from robustness issues, while being unable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Filandrianos , Konstantinos Thomas , Giorgos Stamou

Verification and validation of cyber-physical systems (CPS) via large-scale simulation often surface failures that are hard to interpret, especially when triggered by interactions between continuous and discrete behaviors at specific events…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zaid Ghazal , Hadiza Yusuf , Khouloud Gaaloul

The success of machine learning methods for computer vision tasks has driven a surge in computer assisted prediction for medicine and biology. Based on a data-driven relationship between input image and pathological classification, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Dimitrios Lenis , David Major , Maria Wimmer , Astrid Berg , Gert Sluiter , Katja Bühler

Deep generative models have significantly advanced medical imaging analysis by enhancing dataset size and quality. Beyond mere data augmentation, our research in this paper highlights an additional, significant capacity of deep generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Xiaodan Xing , Junzhi Ning , Yang Nan , Guang Yang

Deep generative models have been studied and developed primarily in the context of natural images and computer vision. This has spurred the development of (Bayesian) methods that use these generative models for inverse problems in image…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Tristan S. W. Stevens , Jeroen Overdevest , Oisín Nolan , Wessel L. van Nierop , Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Yonina C. Eldar

Deep learning models for medical image segmentation suffer significant performance drops due to distribution shifts, but the causal mechanisms behind these drops remain poorly understood. We extend causal attribution frameworks to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Pedro M. Gordaliza , Nataliia Molchanova , Jaume Banus , Thomas Sanchez , Meritxell Bach Cuadra

Recent advancements in diffusion models have enabled the generation of realistic deepfakes from textual prompts in natural language. While these models have numerous benefits across various sectors, they have also raised concerns about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Roberto Amoroso , Davide Morelli , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Alberto Del Bimbo , Rita Cucchiara

Current deep learning models are not designed to simultaneously address three fundamental questions: predict class labels to solve a given classification task (the "What?"), simulate changes in the situation to evaluate how this impacts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Gabriele Dominici , Pietro Barbiero , Francesco Giannini , Martin Gjoreski , Giuseppe Marra , Marc Langheinrich

Deep learning has revolutionized medical image analysis, playing a vital role in modern clinical applications. However, the deployment of large-scale models in real-world clinical settings remains challenging due to high computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Cuong Manh Nguyen , Truong-Son Hy

Deep generative modeling has emerged as a powerful tool for synthesizing realistic medical images, driving advances in medical image analysis, disease diagnosis, and treatment planning. This chapter explores various deep generative models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Paul Friedrich , Yannik Frisch , Philippe C. Cattin