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most citedThe Clever Hans Effect in Unsupervised Learning

33 citations · 89 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CV2026

Beyond Attention Heatmaps: How to Get Better Explanations for Multiple Instance Learning Models in Histopathology

Mina Jamshidi Idaji, Julius Hense, Tom Neuhäuser +12

Multiple instance learning (MIL) has enabled substantial progress in computational histopathology, where a large amount of patches from gigapixel whole slide images are aggregated…

cs.CV2026

Atlas 2 -- Foundation models for clinical deployment

Maximilian Alber, Timo Milbich, Alexandra Carpen-Amarie +24

Pathology foundation models substantially advanced the possibilities in computational pathology --- yet tradeoffs in terms of performance, robustness, and computational requirement…

eess.IV2025

Towards Robust Foundation Models for Digital Pathology

Jonah Kömen, Edwin D. de Jong, Julius Hense +9

Biomedical Foundation Models (FMs) are rapidly transforming AI-enabled healthcare research and entering clinical validation. However, their susceptibility to learning non-biologica…

eess.IV2025

MeDi: Metadata-Guided Diffusion Models for Mitigating Biases in Tumor Classification

David Jacob Drexlin, Jonas Dippel, Julius Hense +4

Deep learning models have made significant advances in histological prediction tasks in recent years. However, for adaptation in clinical practice, their lack of robustness to vary…

cs.CV2025★ 4 cited

Atlas: A Novel Pathology Foundation Model by Mayo Clinic, Charité, and Aignostics

Maximilian Alber, Stephan Tietz, Jonas Dippel +24

Recent advances in digital pathology have demonstrated the effectiveness of foundation models across diverse applications. In this report, we present Atlas, a novel vision foundati…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Do Histopathological Foundation Models Eliminate Batch Effects? A Comparative Study

Jonah Kömen, Hannah Marienwald, Jonas Dippel +1

Deep learning has led to remarkable advancements in computational histopathology, e.g., in diagnostics, biomarker prediction, and outcome prognosis. Yet, the lack of annotated data…

cs.LG2024★ 33 cited

The Clever Hans Effect in Unsupervised Learning

Jacob Kauffmann, Jonas Dippel, Lukas Ruff +3

Unsupervised learning has become an essential building block of AI systems. The representations it produces, e.g. in foundation models, are critical to a wide variety of downstream…

cs.AI2024

AI-based Anomaly Detection for Clinical-Grade Histopathological Diagnostics

Jonas Dippel, Niklas Prenißl, Julius Hense +10

While previous studies have demonstrated the potential of AI to diagnose diseases in imaging data, clinical implementation is still lagging behind. This is partly because AI models…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

xMIL: Insightful Explanations for Multiple Instance Learning in Histopathology

Julius Hense, Mina Jamshidi Idaji, Oliver Eberle +7

Multiple instance learning (MIL) is an effective and widely used approach for weakly supervised machine learning. In histopathology, MIL models have achieved remarkable success in…

eess.IV2024★ 25 cited

RudolfV: A Foundation Model by Pathologists for Pathologists

Jonas Dippel, Barbara Feulner, Tobias Winterhoff +17

Artificial intelligence has started to transform histopathology impacting clinical diagnostics and biomedical research. However, while many computational pathology approaches have…

cs.CV2022★ 16 cited

Human alignment of neural network representations

Lukas Muttenthaler, Jonas Dippel, Lorenz Linhardt +2

Today's computer vision models achieve human or near-human level performance across a wide variety of vision tasks. However, their architectures, data, and learning algorithms diff…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Transfer Learning for Segmentation Problems: Choose the Right Encoder and Skip the Decoder

Jonas Dippel, Matthias Lenga, Thomas Goerttler +2

It is common practice to reuse models initially trained on different data to increase downstream task performance. Especially in the computer vision domain, ImageNet-pretrained wei…

cs.CV2021★ 3 cited

Towards Fine-grained Visual Representations by Combining Contrastive Learning with Image Reconstruction and Attention-weighted Pooling

Jonas Dippel, Steffen Vogler, Johannes Höhne

This paper presents Contrastive Reconstruction, ConRec - a self-supervised learning algorithm that obtains image representations by jointly optimizing a contrastive and a self-reco…