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cs.LG2025

Continual Multiple Instance Learning for Hematologic Disease Diagnosis

Zahra Ebrahimi, Raheleh Salehi, Nassir Navab +2

The dynamic environment of laboratories and clinics, with streams of data arriving on a daily basis, requires regular updates of trained machine learning models for consistent perf…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Self-supervised Latent Space Optimization with Nebula Variational Coding

Yida Wang, David Joseph Tan, Nassir Navab +1

Deep learning approaches process data in a layer-by-layer way with intermediate (or latent) features. We aim at designing a general solution to optimize the latent manifolds to imp…

cs.LG2024

On Discprecncies between Perturbation Evaluations of Graph Neural Network Attributions

Razieh Rezaei, Alireza Dizaji, Ashkan Khakzar +3

Neural networks are increasingly finding their way into the realm of graphs and modeling relationships between features. Concurrently graph neural network explanation approaches ar…

cs.LG2023

PRISM: Progressive Restoration for Scene Graph-based Image Manipulation

Pavel Jahoda, Azade Farshad, Yousef Yeganeh +2

Scene graphs have emerged as accurate descriptive priors for image generation and manipulation tasks, however, their complexity and diversity of the shapes and relations of objects…

cs.LG2023

DISBELIEVE: Distance Between Client Models is Very Essential for Effective Local Model Poisoning Attacks

Indu Joshi, Priyank Upadhya, Gaurav Kumar Nayak +2

Federated learning is a promising direction to tackle the privacy issues related to sharing patients' sensitive data. Often, federated systems in the medical image analysis domain…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Improved Techniques for the Conditional Generative Augmentation of Clinical Audio Data

Mane Margaryan, Matthias Seibold, Indu Joshi +3

Data augmentation is a valuable tool for the design of deep learning systems to overcome data limitations and stabilize the training process. Especially in the medical domain, wher…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Adaptive Personlization in Federated Learning for Highly Non-i.i.d. Data

Yousef Yeganeh, Azade Farshad, Johann Boschmann +3

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning method that offers medical institutes the prospect of collaboration in a global model while preserving the privacy of their patien…

cs.LG2022

Unsupervised pre-training of graph transformers on patient population graphs

Chantal Pellegrini, Nassir Navab, Anees Kazi

Pre-training has shown success in different areas of machine learning, such as Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and medical imaging. However, it has not been ful…

cs.LG2022

Perception-Aligned AI Outputs: End-to-End Visual Prediction for Uncertainty Communication in Clinical Decision-Making

Mohammad Eslami, Solale Tabarestani, Saber Kazeminasab +9

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is essential for trustworthy AI in healthcare, yet many existing methods rely on technical explanations that are difficult for clinicians…

cs.LG2022

Graph-in-Graph (GiG): Learning interpretable latent graphs in non-Euclidean domain for biological and healthcare applications

Kamilia Mullakaeva, Luca Cosmo, Anees Kazi +3

Graphs are a powerful tool for representing and analyzing unstructured, non-Euclidean data ubiquitous in the healthcare domain. Two prominent examples are molecule property predict…

cs.LG2022

Do Explanations Explain? Model Knows Best

Ashkan Khakzar, Pedram Khorsandi, Rozhin Nobahari +1

It is a mystery which input features contribute to a neural network's output. Various explanation (feature attribution) methods are proposed in the literature to shed light on the…

cs.LG2022

Unsupervised Pre-Training on Patient Population Graphs for Patient-Level Predictions

Chantal Pellegrini, Anees Kazi, Nassir Navab

Pre-training has shown success in different areas of machine learning, such as Computer Vision (CV), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and medical imaging. However, it has not been…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Fine-Grained Neural Network Explanation by Identifying Input Features with Predictive Information

Yang Zhang, Ashkan Khakzar, Yawei Li +3

One principal approach for illuminating a black-box neural network is feature attribution, i.e. identifying the importance of input features for the network's prediction. The predi…

cs.LG2021★ 8 cited

GKD: Semi-supervised Graph Knowledge Distillation for Graph-Independent Inference

Mahsa Ghorbani, Mojtaba Bahrami, Anees Kazi +3

The increased amount of multi-modal medical data has opened the opportunities to simultaneously process various modalities such as imaging and non-imaging data to gain a comprehens…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Patient-specific virtual spine straightening and vertebra inpainting: An automatic framework for osteoplasty planning

Christina Bukas, Bailiang Jian, Luis F. Rodriguez Venegas +9

Symptomatic spinal vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) often require osteoplasty treatment. A cement-like material is injected into the bone to stabilize the fracture, restore t…

cs.LG2021★ 113 cited

RA-GCN: Graph Convolutional Network for Disease Prediction Problems with Imbalanced Data

Mahsa Ghorbani, Anees Kazi, Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah +2

Disease prediction is a well-known classification problem in medical applications. GCNs provide a powerful tool for analyzing the patients' features relative to each other. This ca…

cs.LG2020★ 4 cited

Rethinking Positive Aggregation and Propagation of Gradients in Gradient-based Saliency Methods

Ashkan Khakzar, Soroosh Baselizadeh, Nassir Navab

Saliency methods interpret the prediction of a neural network by showing the importance of input elements for that prediction. A popular family of saliency methods utilize gradient…

cs.LG2020

Inverse Distance Aggregation for Federated Learning with Non-IID Data

Yousef Yeganeh, Azade Farshad, Nassir Navab +1

Federated learning (FL) has been a promising approach in the field of medical imaging in recent years. A critical problem in FL, specifically in medical scenarios is to have a more…

cs.LG2020★ 15 cited

Simultaneous imputation and disease classification in incomplete medical datasets using Multigraph Geometric Matrix Completion (MGMC)

Gerome Vivar, Anees Kazi, Hendrik Burwinkel +3

Large-scale population-based studies in medicine are a key resource towards better diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of diseases. They also serve as enablers of clinical decisio…

cs.LG2020

Domain-specific loss design for unsupervised physical training: A new approach to modeling medical ML solutions

Hendrik Burwinkel, Holger Matz, Stefan Saur +6

Today, cataract surgery is the most frequently performed ophthalmic surgery in the world. The cataract, a developing opacity of the human eye lens, constitutes the world's most fre…

cs.LG2020★ 3 cited

Decision Support for Intoxication Prediction Using Graph Convolutional Networks

Hendrik Burwinkel, Matthias Keicher, David Bani-Harouni +4

Every day, poison control centers (PCC) are called for immediate classification and treatment recommendations if an acute intoxication is suspected. Due to the time-sensitive natur…

cs.LG2020

Explicit Domain Adaptation with Loosely Coupled Samples

Oliver Scheel, Loren Schwarz, Nassir Navab +1

Transfer learning is an important field of machine learning in general, and particularly in the context of fully autonomous driving, which needs to be solved simultaneously for man…

cs.LG2020★ 4 cited

Ultrasound-Guided Robotic Navigation with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Hannes Hase, Mohammad Farid Azampour, Maria Tirindelli +4

In this paper we introduce the first reinforcement learning (RL) based robotic navigation method which utilizes ultrasound (US) images as an input. Our approach combines state-of-t…

cs.LG2020★ 2 cited

Peri-Diagnostic Decision Support Through Cost-Efficient Feature Acquisition at Test-Time

Gerome Vivar, Kamilia Mullakaeva, Andreas Zwergal +2

Computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) algorithms in medicine provide patient-specific decision support for physicians. These algorithms are usually applied after full acquisition of high…