arXiv:2607. 16293v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Noisy-label learning in small-scale medical image classification is challenging and hinders the superiority of deep neural networks.
arXiv:2412. 09486v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The literature reflects a mutually beneficial relationship between machine learning and quantum computing, where progress in one field frequently drives improvements in the other.
arXiv:2606. 28252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Early detection of oral cancer markedly improves clinical outcomes, yet specialized diagnostic tools remain scarce in low-resource settings.
arXiv:2608.24229v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum noise is expected to degrade quantum machine learning by driving circuits away from their noiseless implementations. Yet recent studies show...
arXiv:2607. 27262v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Variational quantum algorithms often encounter barren plateaus, where cost gradients decay rapidly with increasing circuit depth, undermining the trainability of parameterized quantum circuits.
arXiv:2607. 21186v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Numerous studies have analyzed the use of hybrid quantum-classical convolutional neural networks as a promising alternative to classical deep learning.
The paper presents a hybrid quantum‑classical pipeline that uses neutral‑atom reservoir computing for medical image classification, specifically binary polyp detection. It incorporates a guided auto‑encoder to reduce dimensionality and a differentiable surrogate model to bypass the gradient barrier of quantum measurements, enabling end‑to‑end backpropagation. The resulting compact latent representations are encoded as pulse detuning parameters in a Rydberg Hamiltonian, producing quantum embeddings that feed a linear classifier, and simulations show improved performance over traditional PCA or unguided auto‑encoder methods.
The paper introduces a scalable hybrid Quantum Diffusion Model for medical image analysis, leveraging a Discrete-Time Quantum Walk executed on a real quantum device to model forward diffusion dynamics. A classical learning model is employed for the backward denoising step, enabling the processing of large real-world medical data, including grayscale, RGB, and moderate-sized 3D volumes. The authors benchmark their quantum approach against a classical discrete-state diffusion model, demonstrating competitive generation performance across three state-of-the-art image generation metrics.
QuantumBoostNet is a hybrid classical‑quantum architecture designed to improve accuracy in identifying cardiac ultrasound views. It combines a classical backbone with two heads—one classical and a 10‑qubit quantum circuit—trained in two stages with an adaptive mixing parameter that balances loss dynamics. Experiments show that, even with limited qubits, QuantumBoostNet outperforms state‑of‑the‑art classical and hybrid models on cardiac ultrasound view identification, image classification benchmarks, and demonstrates robustness to noise.
arXiv:2606. 16868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While federated learning (FL) enables collaborative medical image segmentation without centralizing sensitive data, real-world deployment is frequently complicated by cross-site label imperfections such as contour disagreement, missing or additional structures, and confused labels.
arXiv:2606. 03517v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training quantum neural networks (QNNs) on quantum hardware is currently bottlenecked by the cost of gradient estimation: standard parameter-shift methods require a number of circuit evaluations that grows quadratically with the number of trainable parameters, making hardware-based optimisation impractical beyond small system sizes.
Q-Capsule is a localized capsule-based quantum neural architecture designed to mitigate barren plateaus in variational quantum algorithms. It achieves this through register partitioning, local readout, sparse inter-capsule coupling, trainable data re-uploading, and a Quantum Fisher Information Matrix-guided adaptive depth growth. The approach maintains stable gradient variance as register width increases, produces more structured optimization landscapes, improves parameter efficiency and noise robustness, and reduces measurement requirements while achieving high classification accuracy with fewer two-qubit gates.
Medical image classification is often constrained by limited labeled data, motivating generative augmentation; recently, quantum generative models have been proposed for this purpose, frequently reporting accuracy gains. However, such claims are typically based on single training runs, do not match the parameter budgets of the quantum and classical generators, and do not characterize the data regime in which any benefit appears.