arXiv:2607. 02569v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents a safety-centered empirical evaluation of uncertainty-aware last-layer adaptation for referable diabetic retinopathy screening using RETFound, a self-supervised vision-transformer retinal foundation model used here as a frozen feature encoder, and the public APTOS 2019 and DDR diabetic retinopathy fundus image datasets.
By Karim Mardhani
arXiv:2603.26483v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Medical edge-AI systems must operate under a difficult tension: delivering reliable diagnostic inference while running on devices with limited batt...
By Mostafa Anoosha, Dhavalkumar Thakker, Kuniko Paxton, Koorosh Aslansefat, Bhupesh Kumar Mishra, Baseer Ahmad, Rameez Raja Kureshi
The paper presents an explainable diabetic retinopathy classification framework that leverages vision foundation models—DINOv2, CLIP, and Vision Transformer—combined with various transfer learning techniques such as full fine‑tuning, linear probing, and Low‑Rank Adaptation (LoRA). Using the ODIR dataset for internal validation and the APTOS dataset for external testing, DINOv2‑LoRA achieved the best internal AUROC (0.758) while DINOv2 and ViT full fine‑tuning reached the highest external AUROC (0.920). Explainability was assessed with Grad‑CAM and HiResCAM against expert‑annotated lesion masks from IDRiD, using Dice, IoU, and Pointing Game metrics, confirming that model attention aligns with clinically relevant retinal lesions.
By Abhishek Verma, Anila Krishna, Abhishek Gajanan Bankar, Juan Miguel Lopez Alcaraz
arXiv:2607. 19864v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of preventable blindness; its early lesions are small, low contrast, and easily missed in manual screening.
By Z\"ubeyr \"Ozeren, Tansel Uyar
arXiv:2608. 12745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical AI has demonstrated specialist-level diagnostic accuracy, yet these capabilities remain largely inaccessible in resource-constrained rural settings where bandwidth is scarce, compute is limited, and clinical decision-making requires integrating heterogeneous modalities.
By Hei Ting (Una), Chan, Chenwei Wu, Xueshen Liu, Zesen Zhao, Boyuan Zheng, Luis Filipe Nakayama, Michael G. Morley, Liyue Shen, Jiasi Chen, Z. Morley Mao
arXiv:2607. 04673v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, yet most automated diagnosis systems rely on opaque deep-learning models that offer little clinical interpretability.
By Cheng Huang, Jia Zhang, Yi Jiang, Yang Liu, Karanjit Kooner, Yadi Liu, Tsengdar Lee, Yang Xie, Wenqi Shi, Guanghua Xiao
arXiv:2606. 08123v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Model selection for safety-relevant visual recognition is often based on clean aggregate performance, although robustness, transfer, embedded latency, and explanation faithfulness may produce different preferences.
By Ruben Dario Florez-Zela
arXiv:2607. 01272v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying 3D point cloud analysis in privacy-sensitive, resource-constrained settings faces two barriers: data cannot be centralized, and models must run on limited edge hardware.
By Aizierjiang Aiersilan
arXiv:2602. 14010v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pathology foundation models (PFMs) generalize well across computational pathology tasks but remain costly for gigapixel whole-slide image analysis.
By Yu Cai, Cheng Jin, Zhengyu Zhang, Jiabo Ma, Fengtao Zhou, Yingxue Xu, Zhengrui Guo, Yihui Wang, Zhengyu Zhang, Ling Liang, Yonghao Tan, Pingcheng Dong, Du Cai, On Ki Tang, Chenglong Zhao, Zhijian Cen, Ying Tan, Xi Wang, Can Yang, Yali Xu, Jing Cui, Zhenhui Li, Ronald Cheong Kin Chan, Yueping Liu, Feng Gao, Xiuming Zhang, Li Liang, Hao Chen, Kwang-Ting Cheng
arXiv:2608. 08566v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Malaria remains a leading cause of mortality in resource-limited settings, where expert microscopists are scarce.
By Idaya Seidu, Ahmed Tahiru Issah, Charles B. Delahunt, Carine Mukamakuza
arXiv:2607. 05825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background.
By Fred Mutisya, Oscar Onyango, Sarah Sitati, Syokau Ilovi, Aeesha NJ Malik, Brenda W'mosi, Brian Makini, Jalemba Aluuvala, Josiah Onyango, Rachael Kanguha Mmene, Steven Wanyee
The paper presents a two‑pipeline framework for retinal fundus analysis that combines four‑class disease classification with vessel segmentation. It fine‑tunes eight ImageNet‑pretrained CNNs on the FIVES dataset, applies five gradient‑based explanation methods to assess model interpretability, and benchmarks ten U‑Net variants—including transformer‑based and attention‑enhanced architectures—on the FIVES and DRIVE datasets. The best classification results come from ResNet101 (94.17% accuracy), while the strongest segmentation performance is achieved by Attention U‑Net with a ResNet101V2 backbone, improving DRIVE IoU from 60.80% to 64.83%.
By Fatema Tuj Johora Faria, Mukaffi Bin Moin, Pronay Debnath, Asif Iftekher Fahim, Faisal Muhammad Shah