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most citedDiscovering Concept Directions from Diffusion-based Counterfactuals via Latent Clustering

3 citations · 7 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.LG2026

The Sound of Death: Deep Learning Reveals Vascular Damage from Carotid Ultrasound

Christoph Balada, Aida Romano-Martinez, Payal Varshney +10

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain the leading cause of mortality worldwide, yet early risk detection is often limited by available diagnostics. Carotid ultrasound, a non-invasi…

cs.CV2025

LD-ViCE: Latent Diffusion Model for Video Counterfactual Explanations

Payal Varshney, Adriano Lucieri, Christoph Balada +2

Video-based AI systems are increasingly adopted in safety-critical domains such as autonomous driving and healthcare. However, interpreting their decisions remains challenging due…

cs.CV2025★ 3 cited

Discovering Concept Directions from Diffusion-based Counterfactuals via Latent Clustering

Payal Varshney, Adriano Lucieri, Christoph Balada +2

Concept-based explanations have emerged as an effective approach within Explainable Artificial Intelligence, enabling interpretable insights by aligning model decisions with human-…

cs.CV2025

Deep Learning for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment: Proxy Features from Carotid Sonography as Predictors of Arterial Damage

Christoph Balada, Aida Romano-Martinez, Vincent ten Cate +9

In this study, hypertension is utilized as an indicator of individual vascular damage. This damage can be identified through machine learning techniques, providing an early risk ma…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Generating Counterfactual Trajectories with Latent Diffusion Models for Concept Discovery

Payal Varshney, Adriano Lucieri, Christoph Balada +2

Trustworthiness is a major prerequisite for the safe application of opaque deep learning models in high-stakes domains like medicine. Understanding the decision-making process not…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Leveraging the Potential of Novel Data in Power Line Communication of Electricity Grids

Christoph Balada, Max Bondorf, Sheraz Ahmed +2

Electricity grids have become an essential part of daily life, even if they are often not noticed in everyday life. We usually only become particularly aware of this dependence by…

cs.CV2022

Revisiting the Shape-Bias of Deep Learning for Dermoscopic Skin Lesion Classification

Adriano Lucieri, Fabian Schmeisser, Christoph Peter Balada +3

It is generally believed that the human visual system is biased towards the recognition of shapes rather than textures. This assumption has led to a growing body of work aiming to…

eess.SY2022★ 1 cited

FiN: A Smart Grid and Power Line Communication Dataset

Christoph Balada, Sheraz Ahmed, Andreas Dengel +3

The increasing complexity of low-voltage networks poses a growing challenge for the reliable and fail-safe operation of electricity grids. The reasons for this include an increasin…