The paper introduces a lightweight attention-based CNN (CNN-Attention) for binary skin cancer classification that uses channel attention to highlight informative dermoscopic regions while keeping computational demands low. Trained on a dataset of 2,637 images, the model achieved 87 % accuracy, 0.9475 ROC AUC, and 0.9430 PR AUC, matching MobileNet’s performance with roughly half the parameters and storage. Saliency maps are employed to provide explainability by visualizing the image areas that influence predictions.
By Sanjana Islam Kasfia, Md. Ismiel Hossen Abir, AKM Bahalul Haque, Abir Mahmud Shahariar
The paper introduces S$^3$F-Net, a dual‑branch network that fuses spatial and spectral representations for medical image classification. It combines a deep spatial CNN with a shallow spectral encoder, SpectraNet, which uses a learnable SpectralFilter layer to process the full Fourier spectrum efficiently. Evaluated on four medical imaging datasets, S$^3$F-Net consistently outperforms spatial‑only baselines, achieving state‑of‑the‑art accuracy on BRISC2025 and surpassing deeper models on the Chest X‑Ray Pneumonia dataset.
By Md. Saiful Bari Siddiqui, Mohammed Imamul Hassan Bhuiyan
Multimodal fusion learning (MFL) has shown great potential in the medical domain, where we are faced with disparate data modalities such as imaging, clinical records, and omics. However, existing MFL strategies face several major challenges.
CLARiTy is a vision transformer model that jointly performs multi‑label classification and weakly‑supervised localization of chest X‑ray pathologies. It uses class‑specific tokens to produce attention maps and a SegmentCAM module to refine foreground segmentation with anatomical priors. Trained on NIH ChestXray14 image‑level labels and distilled from a ConvNeXtV2 teacher, CLARiTy achieves competitive classification and strong localization, especially for small pathologies, outperforming prior methods by up to 50.7% relative Macro IoU accuracy.
By John M. Statheros, Hairong Wang, Richard Klein
arXiv:2608.06205v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Multispectral object detection combines visible and thermal imagery to improve perception under challenging illumination and environmental conditio...
By Nima Hatami, Karim Faez, Saeed Sharifian, Hamidreza Amindavar
arXiv:2607. 10188v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Breast cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed malignancy among women worldwide, yet accurate detection and characterization of breast masses in mammography remain challenging due to subtle intensity variations, heterogeneous tissue densities, and indistinct lesion boundaries that complicate radiological interpretation.
By Abu Fatema Mohammad Abdun Noor, Md Imam Ahasan, Md Samiul Ahasan, Kah Ong Michael Goh, S M Hasan Mahmud, Raihana Zannat
arXiv:2105. 03358v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In clinical applications, neural networks must focus on and highlight the most important parts of an input image.
By Soumyya Kanti Datta, Seyed Mohammad Abuzar Hashemi, Sargur N. Srihari, Mingchen Gao
arXiv:2607. 04478v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated chest X-ray classification remains challenging due to severe class imbalance, co-occurring pathologies, and the loss of localized features in conventional architectures.
By Moshiur Rahman, Shafqat Alam, Tasnia Binte Mamun
arXiv:2507. 05077v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep neural networks are increasingly applied in automated histopathology.
By Tarun Gogisetty, Naman Malpani, Gugan Thoppe, Sridharan Devarajan
HierViT is a hierarchical Vision Transformer designed for medical image classification that balances strong predictive performance with interpretability. The model first predicts clinically relevant visual appearance attributes and then uses a hierarchical reasoning process to infer the final diagnosis. Attribute‑specific prototypes and attention maps are visualized to provide complementary views of the model’s reasoning, linking representative image examples and spatial attention to semantically defined visual features.
By Luisa Gall\'ee, Meinrad Beer, Michael G\"otz
arXiv:2609.06699v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Glaucoma is a progressive optic neuropathy characterized by irreversible damage to the optic nerve, making timely diagnosis critical to prevent perma...
By Abdullah Al Shafi, Nishat Sadaf Lira, Abrar Hasan, Kazi Saeed Alam, Swapnil Kundu Argha
arXiv:2606. 06718v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Myocardial substrate abnormalities, such as myocardial scar and myocardial infarction (MI), are associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes.
By Canyu Lei, Fenglin Zhang, Derek Bivona, Cristiane Singulane, Jonathan Pan, Kenneth Bilchick, Amit R. Patel, Jianxin Xie