arXiv AI

People-Centred Medical Image Analysis via Fairness-Aware Human-AI Cooperation

arXiv:2604. 26991v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine learning models for medical image analysis often exhibit subgroup-dependent performance, which impacts how decisions should be allocated between automated systems and human experts under limited resources.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

Medical Imaging AI Competitions Lack Fairness

Benchmarking competitions are central to AI development in medical imaging, but it is unclear if they provide representative, accessible, and reusable data for clinical relevance. This study systematically examined 249 challenges (458 tasks) across 19 imaging modalities, finding limited geographic, modality, and problem-type representation. Additionally, many datasets suffer from restrictive access, ambiguous licensing, and poor documentation, hindering reproducibility and long-term reuse.

By Annika Reinke, Evangelia Christodoulou, Sthuthi Sadananda, A. Emre Kavur, Khrystyna Faryna, Daan Schouten, Bennett A. Landman, Carole Sudre, Olivier Colliot, Nick Heller, Sophie Loizillon, Martin Ma\v{s}ka, Ma\"elys Solal, Arya Yazdan-Panah, Vilma Bozgo, \"Omer S\"umer, Siem de Jong, Sophie Fischer, Michal Kozubek, Tim R\"adsch, Nadim Hammoud, Fruzsina Moln\'ar-G\'abor, Steven Hicks, Michael A. Riegler, Anindo Saha, Vajira Thambawita, Pal Halvorsen, Amelia Jim\'enez-S\'anchez, Qingyang Yang, Veronika Cheplygina, Sabrina Bottazzi, Alexander Seitel, Spyridon Bakas, Alexandros Karargyris, Kiran Vaidhya Venkadesh, Bram van Ginneken, Lena Maier-Hein
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 12

Towards Autonomous and Auditable Medical Imaging Model Development

Large language model (LLM) agents are beginning to automate machine learning engineering (MLE) by coupling planning, code execution, debugging, and empirical feedback. Translating this capability to medical imaging remains difficult because each task imposes modality-specific experimentation and strict requirements for validation protocols and prediction artifacts.

arXiv AI
Jun 11

Human-Guided Agentic AI for Multimodal Clinical Prediction: Lessons from the AgentDS Healthcare Benchmark

arXiv:2602. 19502v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic AI systems are increasingly capable of autonomous data science workflows, yet clinical prediction tasks demand domain expertise that purely automated approaches struggle to provide.

By Lalitha Pranathi Pulavarthy, Raajitha Muthyala, Aravind V Kuruvikkattil, Zhenan Yin, Rashmita Kudamala, Saptarshi Purkayastha
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

Subgroup performance analysis of adaptation strategies for chest X-ray foundation models

The study examines how three parameter‑efficient adaptation methods—linear heads on the raw CLS token, an MLP, and an attention‑pooling module—affect pathology classification accuracy and subgroup fairness when applied to a frozen Rad‑DINO chest X‑ray encoder. Using the MIMIC‑CXR dataset, the authors evaluate eight pathologies across race, sex, and imaging‑view subgroups, finding that attention pooling yields the best overall performance and encodes protected attributes most strongly, yet higher performance does not consistently reduce subgroup disparities. The results show that attribute encoding strength and layer choice do not reliably predict fairness outcomes, indicating that fairness must be assessed directly for each task.

By Dhruv Gupta, Emma A. M. Stanley, Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro, Sujal R. Desai, Ben Glocker
arXiv AI
Jul 14

Towards Autonomous and Auditable Medical Imaging Model Development

arXiv:2607. 10522v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are beginning to automate machine learning engineering (MLE) by coupling planning, code execution, debugging, and empirical feedback.

By Shengyuan Liu, Jia-Xuan Jiang, Boyun Zheng, Cheng Wang, Zipei Wang, Wentao Pan, Hongtao Wu, Houwen Peng, Yu Gu, Lichao Sun, Yixuan Yuan
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

Can Coding Agents Build Robust Baselines? A Skill-Based Approach for Automating the Medical Imaging Model-Development Pipeline

The paper introduces an agentic AI Scientist workflow that automates the entire baseline development process for medical imaging by combining literature-guided reasoning, automated code generation, and hypothesis-driven experimentation. Evaluated on four public benchmarks covering segmentation, classification, and detection, the pipeline consistently improves validation performance, achieving competitive leaderboard results such as 6th place on both PUMA tracks and 31st on MILK10k. The approach also shows strong domain generalization on MIDOG25 across scanners, tumor types, and species, demonstrating that a skill-based, literature-guided agentic workflow can reduce engineering effort without task-specific redesign.

By Eugenia Moris, Jos\'e Ignacio Orlando
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