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Abstract #1745

Robustness of Diffusion Model-Based Methods to Distribution Shifts in Medical Imaging

Wei Jiang1, Yang Gao2, Feng Liu1, Nan Ye1, and Hongfu Sun1
1The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 2Central South University, Changsha, China

Synopsis

Keywords: AI Diffusion Models, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence

Motivation: Diffusion model (DM)-based methods demonstrate competitive performance in solving medical imaging inverse problems. However, it remains uncertain whether these methods are vulnerable to distribution shifts, a common issue in traditional learning-based approaches.

Goal(s): Our goal is to conduct experiments to evaluate how well DM-based methods handle distribution shifts in various scenarios.

Approach: We utilize three different sampling methods based on a pretrained Diffusion model and apply them to four clinical tasks without fine-tuning.

Results: Experiments indicate that DM-based methods efficiently address distribution shifts without requiring fine-tuning. They exhibit robustness to many distribution shifts, even when the test data deviates from the training data.

Impact: DM-based methods reduce resource consumption and the need for extensive training datasets, potentially inspiring further development of DM-based techniques for enhancing in-vivo tasks with limited resources.

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