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5 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.CV2026

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

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.LG2025

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…