AI RESEARCH
DerMAE: Improving skin lesion classification through conditioned latent diffusion and MAE distillation
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2602.19848v2 Announce Type: replace Skin lesion classification datasets often suffer from severe class imbalance, with malignant cases significantly underrepresented, leading to biased decision boundaries during. We address this challenge using class-conditioned diffusion models to generate synthetic dermatological images, followed by self-supervised MAE pre