arXiv AI

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection for Image Dataset Quality Assurance in Multi-Center Breast MRI

arXiv:2608. 16725v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Corrupted, inconsistent, or anomalous data silently threatens the safety and reliability of medical AI.

arXiv AI
Jun 30

Towards Modality-Agnostic Medical Image Anomaly Detection: A Training-Free Manifold Refinement Approach

arXiv:2604. 19191v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deploying AI-based anomaly detection across diverse clinical imaging settings remains challenging because most existing methods rely on modality-specific architectures, anatomical priors, or extensive retraining, limiting their use as general-purpose screening tools.

By Pritam Kar, Gouri Lakshmi S, Saptarshi Bej
arXiv AI
Jun 15

Catching magnetic resonance imaging outliers in artificial intelligence-supported radiotherapy workflows: unsupervised detection and localization of image anomalies using deep learning

arXiv:2605. 24609v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence is increasingly integrated into radiotherapy workflows, yet such pipelines remain vulnerable to out-of-distribution image data that may introduce unexpected behavior in clinical tasks.

By Mustafa Kadhim, Viktor Rogowski, Emilia Persson, Camila Gonzalez, Andr\'e Haraldsson, Sofie Ceberg, Mikael Nilsson, Malin K\"ugele, Sven B\"ack, Christian Jamtheim Gustafsson
arXiv AI
2d ago

MIRTO: a registration-gated, multiverse-tested evaluation protocol for unsupervised anomaly segmentation in brain MRI

MIRTO is an evaluation protocol for unsupervised anomaly segmentation in brain MRI that explicitly documents key methodological choices—such as registration alignment, threshold setting, and false‑positive budgeting—and measures their impact. It applies a registration check, uses validation data for thresholding, reports realized false‑positive volumes, and repeats each comparison across 15,552 evaluation pipelines with bootstrap intervals. In a study on four UAD methods and 312 BraTS 2020 subjects, MIRTO revealed that an axis‑order mismatch dramatically lowered a diffusion model’s voxel AUROC, and that many performance differences were driven by lesion definition and threshold transfer rather than model quality.

By Negin Kafee Hernashki, Soumick Chatterjee
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 21

A Principled Approach to Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

The paper proposes a Bayesian inverse problem formulation for unsupervised anomaly detection, aiming to infer the most probable corruption causing each observation. This approach yields a probabilistic anomaly score based on the energy of inferred corruption parameters and provides a unified framework that recovers several existing methods as special cases. Experiments demonstrate improved object-class AUROC on the MVTec AD dataset and strong detection performance on a brain MRI benchmark, with additional estimates of pathology intensity, bias, and geometry.

By James Myles, Matthew Baugh, Johanna P. M\"uller, Bernhard Kainz, Yingzhen Li
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

OncoVision: Integrating Mammography and Clinical Data through Attention-Driven Multimodal AI for Enhanced Breast Cancer Diagnosis

OncoVision is a privileged‑information training framework that learns from mammography images and clinical data during training but performs inference using only mammographic images. It employs an attention‑based encoder‑decoder to jointly segment masses, calcifications, axillary findings, and breast tissue, and predicts ten structured clinical features such as BI‑RADS. Two late‑fusion strategies (Independent and Dependent) integrate imaging, radiomic, and clinical information to improve diagnostic precision, and a retrospective multi‑reader study showed higher diagnostic confidence, reduced reading time, and segmentation accuracy comparable to or better than radiologists.

By Istiak Ahmed, Galib Ahmed, K. Shahriar Sanjid, Md. Tanzim Hossain, Md. Nishan Khan, Md. Misbah Khan, Md. Arifur Rahman, Sheikh Anisul Haque, Sharmin Akhtar Rupa, Mohammed Mejbahuddin Mia, Mahmud Hasan Mostofa Kamal, Md. Mostafa Kamal Sarker, M. Monir Uddin
arXiv AI
Sep 3

Fine-Grained Anomaly Perception in Wild UGC-Enhanced Images: A Comprehensive Dataset and Difference-Fusion Framework

The paper introduces a new task called Quality Anomaly Perception for UGC Image Enhancement (UEAP) and presents the first benchmark dataset, UEAP-4k, featuring fine‑grained annotations of anomaly categories, locations, and severity levels in real‑world user‑generated content. It proposes the Difference‑Fusion Anomaly Perception Method (DFAP‑UGC), which fuses explicit differences between enhanced images and their references using dense spatial querying, regional verification, and quality‑aware ranking to robustly identify localized anomalies. A Locality‑Aware Dynamic Task Prioritization (LADTP) training strategy is also introduced to enable efficient end‑to‑end learning without multi‑stage overhead, and experiments demonstrate that DFAP‑UGC outperforms adapted classical baselines.

By Yan Zhong, Gefei Chen, Qiufang Ma, Zhen Wang, Zhiwei Fan, Lei Shi, Tingting Jiang