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Towards Universal Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Medical Imaging
Cosmin I. Bercea, Benedikt Wiestler, Daniel Rueckert, Julia A. Schnabel
The increasing complexity of medical imaging data underscores the need for advanced anomaly detection methods to automatically identify diverse pathologies. Current methods face challenges in capturing the broad spectrum of anomalies, often limiting their use to specific lesion types in brain scans. To address this challenge, we introduce a novel unsupervised approach, termed \textit{Reversed Auto-Encoders (RA)}, designed to create realistic pseudo-healthy reconstructions that enable the detection of a wider range of pathologies. We evaluate the proposed method across various imaging modalities, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, pediatric wrist X-ray, and chest X-ray, and demonstrate superior performance in detecting anomalies compared to existing state-of-the-art methods. Our unsupervised anomaly detection approach may enhance diagnostic accuracy in medical imaging by identifying a broader range of unknown pathologies. Our code is publicly available at: \url{https://github.com/ci-ber/RA}.
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