10 accepted papers
Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for self-supervised representation learning, yet the precise conditions under which it recovers meaningful latent structure remain incompletely understood. We develop a measure-theoretic framework that formalizes the diversity condition, a requ…
Radiology reports are critical for clinical decision-making but often lack a standardized format, limiting both human interpretability and machine learning (ML) applications. While large language models (LLMs) have shown strong capabilities in reformatting clinical text, their high computational req
Age plays an important role in shaping medical decisions, but the biological changes associated with aging do not solely depend on the chronological age. Genetics, lifestyle, and environment cause variations in age-related characteristics, even within the same chronological age group. Biological age…
The ability of large language models (LLMs) to follow natural language instructions with human-level fluency suggests many opportunities in healthcare to reduce administrative burden and improve quality of care. However, evaluating LLMs on realistic text generation tasks for healthcare remains chall…
PET imaging is an important tool in clinical diagnostics, especially in oncology as it is able to visualize ongoing metabolic processes, e.g. caused by a tumor. Due to the low spatial resolution, a corresponding CT or MRI scan is normally necessary to gain knowledge about the physiological structure…
Age is an essential factor in modern diagnostic procedures. However, assessment of the true biological age (BA) remains a daunting task due to the lack of reference ground-truth labels. Current BA estimation approaches are either restricted to skeletal images or rely on non-imaging modalities that y…
Numerous factors could lead to partial deteriorations of medical images. For example, metallic implants will lead to localized perturbations in MRI scans. This will affect further post-processing tasks such as attenuation correction in PET/MRI or radiation therapy planning. In this work, we propose…
Combined PET-CT scan is an important diagnostic tool in modern medicine, e.g. for staging or treatment planning in the field of oncology. Especially in small structures, like a tumour, textural variations visible in a PET image are not visually recognizable within a CT scan from the same region. Thu…
Magnetic resonance (MR) plays an important role in medical imaging. It can be flexibly tuned towards different applications for deriving a meaningful diagnosis. However, its long acquisition times and flexible parametrization make it on the other hand prone to artifacts which obscure the underlying…
In medical imaging, the acquired images are usually analyzed by a human observer and rated with respect to a diagnostic question. However, this procedure is time-demanding and expensive. Further more, the lack of a reference image makes this task challenging. In order to support the human observer i…