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most citedFalse Promises in Medical Imaging AI? Assessing Validity of Outperformance Claims

2 citations · 5 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CV2026

HeiCo-FOCUS: A Clinically Grounded Dataset for Long-Context Video Understanding

Leon Mayer, Lucas Luttner, Patrick Godau +42

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have led to rapid progress in video understanding across a wide range of benchmark tasks. However, existing evaluations largely foc…

cs.CV2026

nnFoundation: 3D Foundation Models for Radiology

Constantin Ulrich Harsy, Tassilo Wald, Karol Gotkowski +80

Radiological artificial intelligence has advanced rapidly, yet most systems remain narrowly task-specific, data-intensive, and fragile under domain shift. Foundation models promise…

cs.CV2026

On the Robustness of Temporal Vision-Language Models for Surgical Endoscopy Videos

Darakshan Rashid, Raza Imam, Ufaq Khan +9

Temporal vision-language models (TVLMs) offer a reusable, prompt-based interface for surgical video understanding, yet, their robustness under clinically realistic acquisition arti…

cs.CV2026

Towards Global AI-Driven Cervical Cancer Screening

Thuy Nuong Tran, Ömer Sümer, Evangelia Christodoulou +15

The global elimination of cervical cancer is a key public health goal set by the World Health Organization (WHO), with screening programs reducing mortality by up to 80%. However,…

cs.CV2026★ 2 cited

Performance uncertainty in medical image analysis: a large-scale investigation of confidence intervals

Pascaline André, Charles Heitz, Evangelia Christodoulou +10

Performance uncertainty quantification is essential for reliable validation and eventual clinical translation of medical imaging artificial intelligence (AI). Confidence intervals…

cs.CV2025

6 Fingers, 1 Kidney: Natural Adversarial Medical Images Reveal Critical Weaknesses of Vision-Language Models

Leon Mayer, Piotr Kalinowski, Caroline Ebersbach +6

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly integrated into clinical workflows. However, existing benchmarks primarily assess performance on common anatomical presentations and…

q-bio.OT2025★ 1 cited

Current validation practice undermines surgical AI development

Annika Reinke, Ziying O. Li, Minu D. Tizabi +98

Surgical data science (SDS) is rapidly advancing, yet clinical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in surgery remains limited, with inadequate validation as an important contr…

cs.CV2025

Challenging Vision-Language Models with Surgical Data: A New Dataset and Broad Benchmarking Study

Leon Mayer, Tim Rädsch, Dominik Michael +8

While traditional computer vision models have historically struggled to generalize to endoscopic domains, the emergence of foundation models has shown promising cross-domain perfor…

cs.CV2025★ 2 cited

False Promises in Medical Imaging AI? Assessing Validity of Outperformance Claims

Evangelia Christodoulou, Annika Reinke, Pascaline Andrè +23

Performance comparisons are fundamental in medical imaging Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, often driving claims of superiority based on relative improvements in common perfo…

cs.CV2025

Bridging vision language model (VLM) evaluation gaps with a framework for scalable and cost-effective benchmark generation

Tim Rädsch, Leon Mayer, Simon Pavicic +8

Reliable evaluation of AI models is critical for scientific progress and practical application. While existing VLM benchmarks provide general insights into model capabilities, thei…

cs.CV2024

SURE-VQA: Systematic Understanding of Robustness Evaluation in Medical VQA Tasks

Kim-Celine Kahl, Selen Erkan, Jeremias Traub +4

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have great potential in medical tasks, like Visual Question Answering (VQA), where they could act as interactive assistants for both patients and clin…

cs.CV2024

Confidence intervals uncovered: Are we ready for real-world medical imaging AI?

Evangelia Christodoulou, Annika Reinke, Rola Houhou +19

Medical imaging is spearheading the AI transformation of healthcare. Performance reporting is key to determine which methods should be translated into clinical practice. Frequently…