arXiv Machine Learning

Deep Shape Regression for Planar Curves with Multimodal Covariates

arXiv:2607. 19600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The shape of a planar curve is the geometric information that remains once translation, rotation, scale and reparametrisation are removed and is of interest in many health applications, e.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Controlling for Omitted Variable Bias in Deep Neural Networks

The paper introduces a control‑variable framework for deep neural networks to mitigate omitted variable bias, particularly shortcut learning where covariates like demographics influence predictions. It refits the final layer of a pre‑trained network using cross‑fitting with ridge penalisation, orthogonalises covariate effects, and marginalises predictions over covariate distributions to achieve unbiased, interpretable results. Experiments on simulated images and neuroimaging data show consistent estimation of true effects and performance close to models trained on unconfounded data.

By Manuel Pfeuffer, Roshan Prakash Rane, Kerstin Ritter, Sonja Greven
arXiv AI
Sep 3

InstEditSeg: Instruction-Driven Image Editing for Polyp and Skin Lesion Segmentation

InstEditSeg is a generative framework that treats medical segmentation as an instruction-driven image editing task. Instead of producing binary masks, it renders a color-coded overlay on the original image guided by textual instructions, leveraging latent diffusion models to align with natural image distributions and reduce domain gaps. The method incorporates a DINOv3 visual encoder and a multi-scale feature pyramid fused into the diffusion U‑Net, and uses a dual‑branch classifier‑free guidance strategy to lower inference cost, achieving competitive accuracy on polyp and skin lesion datasets while improving cross‑domain generalization and multi‑lesion segmentation.

By Ziquan Liu, Zhewei Zhu, Xuyang Shi
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 21

4DLoG: Generative Modeling of Neurodegenerative Brain Anatomy with 4D Longitudinal Diffusion Model

arXiv:2604. 22700v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modeling and predicting neurodegenerative disease progression from medical images remains a major challenge in medical AI, with significant implications for early diagnosis, disease monitoring, and treatment planning.

By Nivetha Jayakumar, Swakshar Deb, Bahram Jafrasteh, Qingyu Zhao, Miaomiao Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

Explainability in mulimodal deep transformation models for stroke outcome prediction

arXiv:2504. 06299v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal prediction models based on imaging and clinical data are increasingly used for clinical decision support, yet their interpretability remains limited.

By Lisa Herzog, Jonas Br\"andli, Maurice Schneeberger, Loran Avci, Nordin Dari, Martin H\"ansel, Hakim Baazaoui, Pascal B\"uhler, Susanne Wegener, Beate Sick