New method quantifies uncertainty in imaging problems.
problem Uncertainty quantification in imaging inverse problems.
method Equivariant bootstrapping based on parametric bootstrap algorithm.
result Delivers accurate high-dimensional confidence regions.
Bayesian deep learning improves seismic imaging uncertainty.
problem Uncertainty in seismic imaging due to data noise and linearization errors.
method Combines Bayesian inference and deep neural networks to quantify uncertainty in horizon tracking.
result Uncertainty in automatically tracked horizons can be quantified and visualized.
Deep learning (DL) has shown great potential in medical image enhancement problems, such as super-resolution or image synthesis. However, to date, little consideration has been given to uncertainty quantification over the output image. Here we introduce methods to characterise different components of uncertainty in suc…
A new method improves robustness in image translation by modeling uncertainty.
problem Performance degradation in image translation models due to lack of robustness to outliers and uncertainty.
method UGAC method based on Uncertainty-aware Generalized Adaptive Cycle Consistency, modeling per-pixel residual with generalized Gaussian distribution.
result Our method exhibits stronger robustness towards unseen perturbations in test data.
DEUA detects diffusion-generated images by accounting for different types of uncertainty.
problem Detecting generated images with varying aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty.
method DEUA framework using Laplace approximation for DEU estimation and asymmetric loss function.
result DEUA achieves state-of-the-art performance on large-scale benchmarks.
Simple method improves uncertainty estimation for distribution shifts.
problem Improving uncertainty estimation in deep image classification under distribution shifts.
method Exposing original model to corrupted images and performing simple statistical calibration.
result Superior performance on various distribution shifts and unsupervised domain adaptation tasks.
A method predicts posterior PCs for faster uncertainty quantification in imaging.
problem Uncertainty visualization in image restoration models is limited by per-pixel variances.
method Neural Posterior Principal Components (NPPC) method for predicting PCs in a single forward pass.
result Orders of magnitude faster uncertainty quantification compared to posterior samplers.
Contrastive learning recovers latent distributions for ambiguous inputs, including aleatoric uncertainty.
problem Real-world observations often have inherent ambiguities, making the true posterior probabilistic with heteroscedastic uncertainty.
method Extended InfoNCE objective and encoders to predict latent distributions, proving they recover the correct posteriors, including aleatoric uncertainty.
result Contrastive learning encoders can recover the correct posteriors of data-generating processes, including aleatoric uncertainty, up to a rotation of the latent space.
Develops statistical guarantees for image-to-image regression models.
problem Current image-to-image regression models lack statistical guarantees for model mistakes and hallucinations.
method Uncertainty quantification techniques with rigorous statistical guarantees for image-to-image regression problems.
result Derives uncertainty intervals around each pixel with formal mathematical guarantees.
Bayesian CNN improves MRI stroke diagnosis accuracy and uncertainty quantification.
problem Uncertainty quantification in automated image analysis for medical decision-making.
method Bayesian Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with aggregation methods for patient-level diagnoses.
result Bayesian CNN achieved 95.33% accuracy on 511 patients, 2% higher than non-Bayesian.
Enhances image quality to improve test-time adaptation accuracy.
problem Reducing accuracy loss due to distribution shift in deep networks.
method Integrates image enhancement with TTA methods to reduce prediction uncertainty.
result TECA method increases accuracy of TTA methods without hyperparameters.
The paper evaluates and improves uncertainty estimates in neural networks for safety-critical applications.
problem Quantifying uncertainty in neural networks for safety-critical systems.
method Proposes a statistical test for evaluating uncertainty realism in neural networks and transfers a classification architecture to image-to-image tasks.
result The variational U-Net architecture significantly improves uncertainty realism in image-to-image tasks compared to a plain model.
Bayesian Scattering offers a simple baseline for image data uncertainty.
problem Lack of interpretable, mathematically grounded uncertainty quantification methods for image data.
method Coupling wavelet scattering transform with a simple probabilistic head.
result Bayesian Scattering provides sensible uncertainty estimates under distribution shifts.
Proposes a method to quantify uncertainty in deterministic image classifiers.
problem Uncertainty in deterministic image classifiers.
method Introduces Wellington Posterior for inductive transfer from scenes.
result Validates Wellington Posterior using various methods.
This work provides uncertainty intervals for semantic latent variables in disentangled latent spaces.
problem Challenges in providing meaningful uncertainty quantification for semantic information in disentangled latent spaces.
method Uses quantile regression to output heuristic uncertainty intervals, calibrates these intervals to contain true latent values, and propagates them through the generator.
result Reliably communicates semantically meaningful, principled, and instance-adaptive uncertainty in image super-resolution and image completion.
Bayesian variational inference improves medical image segmentation confidence.
problem Improving interpretability and confidence in deep learning models for medical image segmentation.
method Encoder-decoder architecture based on variational inference for segmenting brain tumor images.
result The model segments brain tumors with both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty.
This paper addresses privacy in federated learning for medical imaging by estimating model uncertainty.
problem Privacy concerns in federated learning for medical imaging.
method Federated Learning (FL) for collaborative model training while preserving patient data privacy.
result Accurate uncertainty estimation in federated learning for medical imaging.
Method estimates uncertainty in CT reconstructions.
problem Lack of accurate uncertainty estimates in deep-learning CT reconstructions.
method Linearised deep image prior with conjugate Gaussian-linear model error bars and Gaussian surrogate for TV regularisation.
result Method provides superior calibration of uncertainty estimates.
Aleatoric uncertainty is an intrinsic property of ill-posed inverse and imaging problems. Its quantification is vital for assessing the reliability of relevant point estimates. In this paper, we propose an efficient framework for quantifying aleatoric uncertainty for deep residual learning and showcase its significant …
Paper proposes an active learning method to improve remote sensing object detection with less labeled data.
problem High labor and time costs in annotating remote sensing images for CNN object detectors.
method Uncertainty-based active learning that selects images with more information for annotation.
result Detector achieves high performance with a fraction of the training images.
Improves image quality in generative models by estimating pixel-wise aleatoric uncertainty.
problem Lack of quantitative assessment of image quality in diffusion models.
method Estimate pixel-wise aleatoric uncertainty during sampling phase using a perturbation scheme designed for diffusion models.
result Uncertainty-guided sampling leads to better sample generation quality as shown by FID scores.
ECP method improves image classifier uncertainty sets.
problem Generating reliable uncertainty sets for deep classifiers.
method Evidential Conformal Prediction (ECP) based on EDL.
result ECP outperforms state-of-the-art methods in set size and adaptivity.
Spatially-aware metrics improve uncertainty evaluation in segmentation.
problem Uncertainty evaluation metrics treat voxels independently, ignoring spatial context.
method Proposed three spatially aware metrics incorporating structural and boundary information.
result Improved alignment with clinically important factors and better discrimination between uncertainty patterns.
Paper decomposes risk into aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties and generates predictive uncertainty measures.
problem Unclear relationships between various predictive uncertainty measures in literature.
method Bayesian estimation to decompose risk into aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties, generating different predictive uncertainty measures.
result Experimental validation confirms usefulness of derived predictive uncertainty measures for detecting out-of-distribution and misclassified instances.
Generative Score Inference improves uncertainty quantification for multimodal data.
problem Accurate uncertainty quantification in multimodal learning tasks.
method Generative Score Inference (GSI) uses synthetic samples to approximate conditional score distributions.
result GSI achieves state-of-the-art performance in hallucination detection and image captioning uncertainty estimation.
PaRCE estimates model confidence for CNNs across various uncertainties.
problem Limited holistic approach to estimating perception model confidence in CNNs.
method Probabilistic and reconstruction-based competency estimation.
result PaRCE best distinguishes between various types of samples and regions.
MCU-Net combines U-Net and Monte Carlo Dropout for uncertainty in medical image segmentation.
problem Lack of uncertainty representation in deep learning methods for patient-centered healthcare decisions.
method MCU-Net framework using U-Net and Monte Carlo Dropout with four uncertainty metrics.
result MCU-Net maximizes automated performance and refers truly uncertain cases.
A new model improves medical image segmentation uncertainty.
problem Uncertainty in medical image segmentation.
method Conditional Normalizing Flow (cFlow) for improved segmentation uncertainty.
result Improved quality and diversity of segmentation samples.
Proposes a new deep learning model for uncertainty quantification and propagation.
problem High-dimensional uncertainty quantification and propagation problems.
method Integrates U-net with Gaussian Gated Linear Network (GGLN) to create GLU-net.
result Less complex architecture with 44% fewer parameters than existing models.
Efficient neural network ensembles improve image classification reliability and uncertainty quantification.
problem Uncertainty in neural network predictions for industrial image classification.
method Investigated efficient neural network ensembles (snapshot, batch, multi-input multi-output) for image classification reliability and uncertainty quantification.
result Batch ensemble is a cost-effective and competitive alternative to deep ensembles, offering savings in training and test time.
Hybrid AI and rule-based framework de-identifies medical imaging data.
problem De-identifying medical imaging data to protect PHI and PII.
method Combines rule-based and AI techniques with uncertainty quantification.
result Robust performance across benchmark datasets and regulatory standards.
New method provides formal uncertainty guarantees for image classifiers.
problem Uncertainty quantification for image classifiers without formal guarantees.
method Adapts conformal prediction to give stable, formal coverage guarantees.
result Method outperforms existing approaches in coverage and set size.
Enhances uncertainty estimation in medical image segmentation.
problem Frequency-related noise in medical imaging leads to biased uncertainty estimates.
method Extends MC-Dropout to the frequency domain for better uncertainty estimation.
result MC-Frequency Dropout improves calibration and uncertainty in semantic segmentation.
Improves reliability of medical diagnosis uncertainty estimates.
problem Label uncertainty in medical diagnosis.
method Post-hoc alpha-calibration method for neural network classifiers. result Significantly enhances reliability of uncertainty estimates.
A new probabilistic approach improves deep metric learning by considering image uncertainties and class-specific variances.
problem Proxy-based deep metric learning struggles with image uncertainties and class-specific structures.
method Introduces non-isotropic probabilistic proxy-based deep metric learning using directional von Mises-Fisher distributions.
result Improves generalization performance and competitive on standard benchmarks.
CRC method provides tighter uncertainty intervals for CT images.
problem Expressing uncertainty in CT images in clinically meaningful terms.
method Semantically adaptive CRC procedure leveraging length minimization.
result Valid coverage of ground-truth images with tighter uncertainty intervals.
With the wide development of black-box machine learning algorithms, particularly deep neural network (DNN), the practical demand for the reliability assessment is rapidly rising. On the basis of the concept that `Bayesian deep learning knows what it does not know,' the uncertainty of DNN outputs has been investigated a…
Conf-Gen applies uncertainty quantification to generative models.
problem Uncertainty quantification for unsupervised generative models.
method Adapts CRC to generative tasks, relaxing theoretical assumptions.
result Demonstrates flexibility and correctness of AI agent outputs.
Bayesian imaging methods deliver trustworthy probabilities in some cases but struggle with uncertainty quantification.
problem Uncertainty quantification in Bayesian imaging methods.
method Monte Carlo method to explore reliability of probabilities.
result Modern Bayesian imaging techniques deliver reliable probabilities in some cases but not for uncertainty quantification.
Machine learning techniques have been successfully applied to super-resolution tasks on natural images where visually pleasing results are sufficient. However in many scientific domains this is not adequate and estimations of errors and uncertainties are crucial. To address this issue we propose a Bayesian framework th…
The paper introduces a new framework to assess generative model uncertainty.
problem Lack of a theoretical framework for assessing generative models' generalization and uncertainty.
method Bias-variance-covariance decomposition for kernel scores, with unbiased and consistent estimators.
result Kernel-based variance and entropy for uncertainty estimation are more predictive than existing methods.
A novel capsule network model improves surrogate modeling and uncertainty quantification from sparse data.
problem Surrogate modeling and uncertainty quantification of systems from sparse data.
method Adapted Capsule Network (CapsNet) architecture into image-to-image regression encoder-decoder network.
result The proposed approach accurately, efficiently, and robustly predicts responses for arbitrary diffusion fields.
Paper introduces a new uncertainty measure for misclassification detection.
problem Effective detection of unreliable model predictions in machine learning.
method Data-driven measure of uncertainty relative to an observer based on soft-predictions.
result Demonstrates improved misclassification detection over state-of-the-art methods.
GANs as priors improve uncertainty quantification in complex fields.
problem Bayesian inference challenges in high-dimensional, discrete fields.
method Use GANs to approximate prior distributions for Bayesian updates.
result Demonstrated efficacy on image classification, inpainting, denoising, and inverse problems.
Study uncovers uncertainty in traffic prediction models across cities.
problem Lack of interpretability in deep learning models for traffic prediction.
method Investigated uncertainty quantification methods for image-based traffic prediction.
result Meaningful uncertainty estimates can be recovered for traffic prediction.
Paper introduces conformal prediction for reliable uncertainty quantification in landmark localization.
problem Systematic underestimation of total predictive uncertainty in landmark localization.
method Conformal prediction framework for multi-output regression, generating flexible prediction regions.
result Methods outperform existing approaches in validity and efficiency across 2D and 3D datasets.
Bayesian ptychography method reduces overlap for faster imaging.
problem Reduced overlap leads to large data volumes and long acquisition times.
method Generative model combined with MCMC for posterior sampling.
result Framework consistently outperforms iterative reconstruction methods with reduced overlap.
Study benchmarks uncertainty quantification in chest X-ray classification.
problem Reliable uncertainty quantification for medical AI models.
method Evaluation of 13 uncertainty quantification methods on MIMIC-CXR-JPG dataset.
result Insights into effectiveness and disentanglement of epistemic and aleatoric uncertainties.