Foundation models are increasingly used as image feature extractors for mammography, but their robustness under external domain shift remains unclear. We benchmark 15 foundation-model backbones across breast density, BI-RADS severity, and cancer status using a unified frozen-back…
The automatic detection and classification of cardiovascular disease (CVD) from computed tomography (CT) images plays an important role in clinical practice. Recently, a hybrid pipeline (GRC-Net) for CVD classification was proposed, which leverages a deep-learning-based segmentat…
We study why diffusion autoencoders can achieve similar image quality while learning substantially different latent structures. We trace this behaviour to optimisation dynamics; we analyse curves of image reconstruction against latent representation quality, revealing trajectorie…