arXiv Computer Vision

Generating Medical Image Counterfactuals using Causal Explanations

arXiv AI
Aug 20

Counterfactual Contrastive Analysis

The paper introduces a classifier‑free method for generating visual counterfactual explanations (VCEs) using Contrastive Analysis (CA). By separating generative factors common to two datasets from those specific to each class, the approach swaps only the salient factors to produce counterfactual images, thereby avoiding reliance on classifier decision boundaries. Leveraging StyleGAN2’s high‑quality synthesis and a feature‑space latent representation, the method supports multiple salient factors per dataset and achieves superior counterfactual quality on three medical imaging datasets.

By Yunlong He, Pietro Gori
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 15

Steering Diffusion Models via Class-Contrastive Influence for Few-Shot Medical Classification

arXiv:2607. 12464v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When labeled data are scarce, off-the-shelf diffusion models can augment training sets for few-shot medical image classification, but not all generated samples are equally useful for the downstream task.

By Jeeyung Kim, Erfan Esmaeili, Qiang Qiu
arXiv AI
Jul 3

Causal Explanations for Image Classifiers

arXiv:2411. 08875v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing algorithms for explaining the output of image classifiers use different definitions of explanations and a variety of techniques to find them.

By Hana Chockler, David A. Kelly, Daniel Kroening, Youcheng Sun