A review finds many medical-imaging papers still split data in leak-prone ways

wandedob · x · 2026-07-27

The post explains that the report checks whether medical-imaging papers split data correctly at the patient or whole-volume level, or incorrectly at the slice/patch level, which causes leakage and inflated metrics.

It covers papers using 2D CNNs or ViTs on 3D medical volumes such as MRI, CT, OCT, and ultrasound, as well as pathology whole-slide images broken into patches.

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