A review of causality for learning algorithms in medical image analysis

A Vlontzos, D Rueckert, B Kainz - arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.05498, 2022 - arxiv.org
Medical image analysis is a vibrant research area that offers doctors and medical
practitioners invaluable insight and the ability to accurately diagnose and monitor disease …

Dreamr: Diffusion-driven counterfactual explanation for functional mri

HA Bedel, T Çukur - IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning analyses have offered sensitivity leaps in detection of cognition-related
variables from functional MRI (fMRI) measurements of brain responses. Yet, as deep models …

Feature-conditioned cascaded video diffusion models for precise echocardiogram synthesis

H Reynaud, M Qiao, M Dombrowski, T Day… - … Conference on Medical …, 2023 - Springer
Image synthesis is expected to provide value for the translation of machine learning
methods into clinical practice. Fundamental problems like model robustness, domain …

Echonet-synthetic: Privacy-preserving video generation for safe medical data sharing

H Reynaud, Q Meng, M Dombrowski, A Ghosh… - … Conference on Medical …, 2024 - Springer
To make medical datasets accessible without sharing sensitive patient information, we
introduce a novel end-to-end approach for generative de-identification of dynamic medical …

Benchmarking counterfactual image generation

T Melistas, N Spyrou, N Gkouti, P Sanchez… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Generative AI has revolutionised visual content editing, empowering users to effortlessly
modify images and videos. However, not all edits are equal. To perform realistic edits in …

Counterfactual generative models for time-varying treatments

S Wu, W Zhou, M Chen, S Zhu - Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Estimating the counterfactual outcome of treatment is essential for decision-making in public
health and clinical science, among others. Often, treatments are administered in a …

Causal models in string diagrams

R Lorenz, S Tull - arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.07638, 2023 - arxiv.org
The framework of causal models provides a principled approach to causal reasoning,
applied today across many scientific domains. Here we present this framework in the …

Estimating categorical counterfactuals via deep twin networks

A Vlontzos, B Kainz, CM Gilligan-Lee - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2023 - nature.com
Counterfactual inference is a powerful tool, capable of solving challenging problems in high-
profile sectors. To perform counterfactual inference, we require knowledge of the underlying …

Non-parametric identifiability and sensitivity analysis of synthetic control models

J Zeitler, A Vlontzos… - Conference on Causal …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Quantifying cause and effect relationships is an important problem in many domains, from
medicine to economics. The gold standard solution to this problem is to conduct a …

Cheart: A conditional spatio-temporal generative model for cardiac anatomy

M Qiao, S Wang, H Qiu, A De Marvao… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Two key questions in cardiac image analysis are to assess the anatomy and motion of the
heart from images; and to understand how they are associated with non-imaging clinical …