Understanding adversarial attacks on deep learning based medical image analysis systems

• Published in: Pattern recognition Vol. 110; p. 107332
• Main Authors: Ma, Xingjun, Niu, Yuhao, Gu, Lin, Wang, Yisen, Zhao, Yitian, Bailey, James, Lu, Feng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2021
• Subjects: Adversarial attack; Adversarial example detection; Deep learning; Medical image analysis; Deep learning; Adversarial attack; Adversarial example detection; Medical image analysis

•Medical image DNNs are easier to be attacked than natural non-medical image DNNs.•Complex biological textures of medical images may lead to more vulnerable regions.•State-of-the-art deep networks can be overparameterized for medical imaging tasks.•Medical image adversarial attacks can also be easil...