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20182026
most citedDisentangled Representation Learning in Cardiac Image Analysis

200 citations · 485 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.AI2026

From Training to Deployment: Post-Hoc Causal Feature Identification via Sensitivity Ratios

Athanasios Vlontzos, Giorgos Papanastasiou, Bernhard Kainz +1

Given a model that is already trained, which features does it rely on causally versus spuriously? Existing methods require access to the training procedure and cannot answer this p…

cs.AI2026

Entangled by Design: Spurious Intra-Variable Signal Routing in Tabular In-Context Learners

Athanasios Vlontzos, Giorgos Papanastasiou, Bernhard Kainz +1

Consider a model trained at a single hospital to predict patient recovery, where the measured feature bundles the patient's true health signal () with a systematic artefact…

cs.CV2025

Causally Steered Diffusion for Automated Video Counterfactual Generation

Nikos Spyrou, Athanasios Vlontzos, Paraskevas Pegios +5

Adapting text-to-image (T2I) latent diffusion models (LDMs) to video editing has shown strong visual fidelity and controllability, but challenges remain in maintaining causal relat…

eess.IV2025

A Novel Coronary Artery Registration Method Based on Super-pixel Particle Swarm Optimization

Peng Qi, Wenxi Qu, Tianliang Yao +5

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) is a minimally invasive procedure that improves coronary blood flow and treats coronary artery disease. Although PCI typically requires 2D…

cs.AI2025

Reason Like a Radiologist: Chain-of-Thought and Reinforcement Learning for Verifiable Report Generation

Peiyuan Jing, Kinhei Lee, Zhenxuan Zhang +7

Radiology report generation is critical for efficiency but current models lack the structured reasoning of experts, hindering clinical trust and explainability by failing to link v…

eess.IV2025

Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation via Knowledge Mining from Large Models

Yuchen Mao, Hongwei Li, Yinyi Lai +4

Large-scale vision models like SAM have extensive visual knowledge, yet their general nature and computational demands limit their use in specialized tasks like medical image segme…

cs.CV2024

Anatomy-Guided Radiology Report Generation with Pathology-Aware Regional Prompts

Yijian Gao, Dominic Marshall, Xiaodan Xing +4

Radiology reporting generative AI holds significant potential to alleviate clinical workloads and streamline medical care. However, achieving high clinical accuracy is challenging,…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

SeLoRA: Self-Expanding Low-Rank Adaptation of Latent Diffusion Model for Medical Image Synthesis

Yuchen Mao, Hongwei Li, Wei Pang +3

The persistent challenge of medical image synthesis posed by the scarcity of annotated data and the need to synthesize `missing modalities' for multi-modal analysis, underscored th…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Advancing oncology with federated learning: transcending boundaries in breast, lung, and prostate cancer. A systematic review

Anshu Ankolekar, Sebastian Boie, Maryam Abdollahyan +11

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising solution to address the limitations of centralised machine learning (ML) in oncology, particularly in overcoming privacy concerns…

eess.IV2024

Artificial Immunofluorescence in a Flash: Rapid Synthetic Imaging from Brightfield Through Residual Diffusion

Xiaodan Xing, Chunling Tang, Siofra Murdoch +10

Immunofluorescent (IF) imaging is crucial for visualizing biomarker expressions, cell morphology and assessing the effects of drug treatments on sub-cellular components. IF imaging…

cs.CV2024★ 5 cited

Benchmarking Counterfactual Image Generation

Thomas Melistas, Nikos Spyrou, Nefeli Gkouti +5

Generative AI has revolutionised visual content editing, empowering users to effortlessly modify images and videos. However, not all edits are equal. To perform realistic edits in…

cs.CL2024★ 59 cited

From Explainable to Interpretable Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing in Healthcare: How Far from Reality?

Guangming Huang, Yingya Li, Shoaib Jameel +2

Deep learning (DL) has substantially enhanced natural language processing (NLP) in healthcare research. However, the increasing complexity of DL-based NLP necessitates transparent…

eess.IV2023

Explainable unsupervised multi-modal image registration using deep networks

Chengjia Wang, Giorgos Papanastasiou

Clinical decision making from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) combines complementary information from multiple MRI sequences (defined as 'modalities'). MRI image registration aims…

cs.CV2023★ 87 cited

Is attention all you need in medical image analysis? A review

Giorgos Papanastasiou, Nikolaos Dikaios, Jiahao Huang +2

Medical imaging is a key component in clinical diagnosis, treatment planning and clinical trial design, accounting for almost 90% of all healthcare data. CNNs achieved performance…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

You Don't Have to Be Perfect to Be Amazing: Unveil the Utility of Synthetic Images

Xiaodan Xing, Federico Felder, Yang Nan +3

Synthetic images generated from deep generative models have the potential to address data scarcity and data privacy issues. The selection of synthesis models is mostly based on ima…

eess.IV2023

Less is More: Unsupervised Mask-guided Annotated CT Image Synthesis with Minimum Manual Segmentations

Xiaodan Xing, Giorgos Papanastasiou, Simon Walsh +1

As a pragmatic data augmentation tool, data synthesis has generally returned dividends in performance for deep learning based medical image analysis. However, generating correspond…

eess.IV2022

Unsupervised Image Registration Towards Enhancing Performance and Explainability in Cardiac And Brain Image Analysis

Chengjia Wang, Guang Yang, Giorgos Papanastasiou

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) typically recruits multiple sequences (defined here as "modalities"). As each modality is designed to offer different anatomical and functional cli…

eess.IV2020

Semi-supervised Pathology Segmentation with Disentangled Representations

Haochuan Jiang, Agisilaos Chartsias, Xinheng Zhang +6

Automated pathology segmentation remains a valuable diagnostic tool in clinical practice. However, collecting training data is challenging. Semi-supervised approaches by combining…

cs.CV2019★ 66 cited

Disentangle, align and fuse for multimodal and semi-supervised image segmentation

Agisilaos Chartsias, Giorgos Papanastasiou, Chengjia Wang +4

Magnetic resonance (MR) protocols rely on several sequences to assess pathology and organ status properly. Despite advances in image analysis, we tend to treat each sequence, here…

cs.CV2019★ 10 cited

FIRE: Unsupervised bi-directional inter-modality registration using deep networks

Chengjia Wang, Giorgos Papanastasiou, Agisilaos Chartsias +3

Inter-modality image registration is an critical preprocessing step for many applications within the routine clinical pathway. This paper presents an unsupervised deep inter-modali…

cs.CV2019★ 200 cited

Disentangled Representation Learning in Cardiac Image Analysis

Agisilaos Chartsias, Thomas Joyce, Giorgos Papanastasiou +4

Typically, a medical image offers spatial information on the anatomy (and pathology) modulated by imaging specific characteristics. Many imaging modalities including Magnetic Reson…

cs.CV2018★ 3 cited

Unsupervised learning for cross-domain medical image synthesis using deformation invariant cycle consistency networks

Chengjia Wang, Gillian Macnaught, Giorgos Papanastasiou +2

Recently, the cycle-consistent generative adversarial networks (CycleGAN) has been widely used for synthesis of multi-domain medical images. The domain-specific nonlinear deformati…

cs.CV2018★ 51 cited

Factorised spatial representation learning: application in semi-supervised myocardial segmentation

Agisilaos Chartsias, Thomas Joyce, Giorgos Papanastasiou +5

The success and generalisation of deep learning algorithms heavily depend on learning good feature representations. In medical imaging this entails representing anatomical informat…