Generating synthetic data for medical imaging

LR Koetzier, J Wu, D Mastrodicasa, A Lutz, M Chung… - Radiology, 2024 - pubs.rsna.org
Artificial intelligence (AI) models for medical imaging tasks, such as classification or
segmentation, require large and diverse datasets of images. However, due to privacy and …

TorchXRayVision: A library of chest X-ray datasets and models

JP Cohen, JD Viviano, P Bertin… - … on Medical Imaging …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
TorchXRayVision is an open source software library for working with chest X-ray datasets
and deep learning models. It provides a common interface and common pre-processing …

Dreamr: Diffusion-driven counterfactual explanation for functional mri

HA Bedel, T Çukur - IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning analyses have offered sensitivity leaps in detection of cognition-related
variables from functional MRI (fMRI) measurements of brain responses. Yet, as deep models …

Problems in the deployment of machine-learned models in health care

JP Cohen, T Cao, JD Viviano, CW Huang, M Fralick… - Cmaj, 2021 - Can Med Assoc
• Decision-support systems or clinical prediction tools based on machine learning (including
the special case of deep learning) are similar to clinical support tools developed using …

Explaining the black-box smoothly—a counterfactual approach

S Singla, M Eslami, B Pollack, S Wallace… - Medical image …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract We propose a BlackBox Counterfactual Explainer, designed to explain image
classification models for medical applications. Classical approaches (eg,, saliency maps) …

Merlin: A vision language foundation model for 3d computed tomography

L Blankemeier, JP Cohen, A Kumar… - Research …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Over 85 million computed tomography (CT) scans are performed annually in the US, of
which approximately one quarter focus on the abdomen. Given the current shortage of both …

Training calibration-based counterfactual explainers for deep learning models in medical image analysis

JJ Thiagarajan, K Thopalli, D Rajan, P Turaga - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence methods in healthcare is coupled with the critical
need for techniques to rigorously introspect models and thereby ensure that they behave …

Diffusion models for counterfactual generation and anomaly detection in brain images

A Fontanella, G Mair, J Wardlaw… - … on Medical Imaging, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Segmentation masks of pathological areas are useful in many medical applications, such as
brain tumour and stroke management. Moreover, healthy counterfactuals of diseased …

Fast diffusion-based counterfactuals for shortcut removal and generation

N Weng, P Pegios, E Petersen, A Feragen… - European Conference on …, 2025 - Springer
Shortcut learning is when a model–eg a cardiac disease classifier–exploits correlations
between the target label and a spurious shortcut feature, eg a pacemaker, to predict the …

Right for the Wrong Reason: Can Interpretable ML Techniques Detect Spurious Correlations?

S Sun, LM Koch, CF Baumgartner - International Conference on Medical …, 2023 - Springer
While deep neural network models offer unmatched classification performance, they are
prone to learning spurious correlations in the data. Such dependencies on confounding …