arXiv AI

When LLMs Analyze Scars: From Images to Clinically-Meaningful Features

arXiv:2606. 18063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical image classification faces a fundamental dilemma: while deep learning models achieve remarkable performance at scale, real-world clinical scenarios often suffer from severe data scarcity due to annotation costs, privacy constraints, and disease rarity.

arXiv AI
Sep 15

ProtoCAM: Interpretable Few-Shot Mask-Guided Prototypical Learning for Breast Lesion Classification in Ultrasound Imaging

ProtoCAM is an explainable few‑shot learning framework for classifying breast lesions in ultrasound images. It combines mask‑guided feature encoding, prototypical metric learning, and gradient‑based visual explanations to leverage limited annotated data. Evaluated on the BUSI dataset, ProtoCAM achieved a macro F1‑score of 0.910 in a 3‑way 5‑shot setting, outperforming standard supervised CNNs, with ResNet18 reaching 91.65% under 15‑shot conditions.

By Ashkan Ebadi
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

Private and interpretable clinical prediction with quantum-inspired tensor train models

The paper demonstrates that publicly available clinical machine learning models, such as logistic regression (LR), pose significant privacy risks because attackers can recover model parameters and identify training cohorts through various membership inference attacks. The authors show that even small cohorts can be reliably identified and that common practices like cross-validation can worsen the risk. To mitigate this, they propose a quantum-inspired defense that tensorizes discretized models into tensor trains (TTs), which obfuscates parameters, preserves accuracy, and maintains interpretability while providing black‑box protection comparable to Differential Privacy.

By Jos\'e Ram\'on Pareja Monturiol, Juliette Sinnott, Roger G. Melko, Mohammad Kohandel
arXiv AI
Sep 10

DL$^3$M: A Vision-to-Language Framework for Expert-Level Medical Reasoning through Deep Learning and Large Language Models

arXiv:2512.13742v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Medical image classifiers detect gastrointestinal diseases well, but they do not explain their decisions. Large language models can generate...

By Md. Najib Hasan (Wichita State University, USA), Imran Ahmad (Wichita State University, USA), Sourav Basak Shuvo (Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh), Md. Mahadi Hasan Ankon (Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh), Nazmul Siddique (Ulster University, UK), Hui Wang (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 15

Designing UNICORN: a Unified Benchmark for Imaging in Computational Pathology, Radiology, and Natural Language

arXiv:2603.02790v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Foundation models are changing the way we develop medical artificial intelligence. By learning broadly generalizable features across diverse data m...

By Michelle Stegeman (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Lena Philipp (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Fennie van der Graaf (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Marina D'Amato (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Cl\'ement Grisi (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Luc Builtjes (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Joeran S. Bosma (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Judith Lefkes (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Rianne A. Weber (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), James A. Meakin (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Thomas Koopman (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Anne Mickan (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Mathias Prokop (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Ewoud J. Smit (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Fr\'ed\'erique Meeuwsen (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Geert Litjens (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Jeroen van der Laak (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Bram van Ginneken (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Maarten de Rooij (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Henkjan Huisman (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Colin Jacobs (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Francesco Ciompi (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium), Alessa Hering (and on behalf of the UNICORN consortium)
arXiv AI
Sep 15

GRIN+: Towards Fast Yet Effective Machine Unlearning for Imbalanced Medical Data

GRIN+ is a new machine unlearning framework that targets fast and precise data erasure in imbalanced medical datasets. It separates unlearning‑specific knowledge from general representations by analyzing gradient contributions of forget and retain sets, introduces a class‑adaptive influence scoring to counter gradient dominance, and uses a direction‑constrained update to protect essential clinical knowledge. Benchmarks on skin cancer, brain tumor, and breast ultrasound data show that GRIN+ balances privacy, efficiency, and utility, achieving high diagnostic accuracy and faster runtime than existing methods.

By Minghui Huang, Junxiao Wang