Medical images are routinely de-identified---names, dates, and other metadata removed---and then shared for research, teaching, and public benchmarks under the assumption that this renders them anonymous. Such de-identification protects the metadata but not the pixels, and---apart from scans that directly contain facial structures---whether the image content itself identifies the patient has received little scrutiny.
arXiv:2608. 05938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical images are routinely de-identified---names, dates, and other metadata removed---and then shared for research, teaching, and public benchmarks under the assumption that this renders them anonymous.
With the rapid adoption of generative AI, synthetic medical images pose growing risks, including diagnostic deception and insurance fraud. Although prior work has explored vision-language model (VLM)-based synthetic image detection, these evaluations typically consider images in isolation.
arXiv:2607. 20274v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical image encoders from different groups are increasingly treated as interchangeable, on the assumption that scale and clinical supervision concentrate their representations onto a shared structure.
arXiv:2606. 25375v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With the rapid adoption of generative AI, synthetic medical images pose growing risks, including diagnostic deception and insurance fraud.
arXiv:2603. 18846v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Foundation models are used to extract transferable representations from large amounts of unlabeled data, typically via self-supervised learning (SSL).
Vision-Language Large Models (VLLMs) trained on massive crawled corpora raise pressing copyright and data-provenance concerns. These concerns are particularly acute in healthcare, where patient medical images paired with clinical reports demand rigorous privacy safeguards.
arXiv:2607. 14932v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Synthetic face datasets have become effective enough to train face recognition models with accuracy rivaling that of models trained on real photographs.
arXiv:2607. 02596v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning models for medical diagnosis frequently exhibit substantial performance disparities across sensitive subgroups (e.
arXiv:2607. 08867v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cloud-based deep learning enables large-scale medical image analysis but raises significant privacy concerns when sensitive patient images are outsourced for model development.
arXiv:2601. 19618v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Differential privacy protects the patients whose images train medical imaging models, but it lowers diagnostic accuracy, and the initialization is the strongest known remedy.
Synthetic face datasets have become effective enough to train face recognition models with accuracy rivaling that of models trained on real photographs. This progress sidesteps the ethical and legal burdens of collecting real biometric data, yet evaluation has not kept pace.
arXiv:2512. 17605v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robust mammography registration is essential for clinically relevant applications like tracking disease progression in breast tissue.