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  1. arXiv:2605.07749  [pdf, ps, other

    cs.CV

    Benchmarking Foundation Models for Renal Lesion Stratification in CT

    Authors: Hartmut Häntze, Sarah de Boer, Myrthe Buser, Alessa Hering, Bram van Ginneken, Mathias Prokop, Jawed Nawabi, Sebastian Ziegelmayer, Lisa Adams, Keno Bressem

    Abstract: The rapid proliferation of open-source medical foundation models (FMs) raises a practical question: how well do their pre-trained representations transfer to clinically relevant but data-scarce classification tasks? Particularly in CT-based renal lesion classification, a push toward greater generalizability would be meaningful, as the field is constrained by inherently limited training data. We ad… ▽ More

    Submitted 8 May, 2026; originally announced May 2026.

    Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures

    ACM Class: I.2.10; J.3

  2. arXiv:2602.16321  [pdf, ps, other

    cs.NE

    End-user validation of BRIGHT with custom-developed graphical user interface applied to cervical cancer brachytherapy

    Authors: Leah R. M. Dickhoff, Ellen M. Kerkhof, Heloisa H. Deuzeman, Laura A. Velema, Stephanie M. de Boer, Lavinia A. L. Verhagen, Danique L. J. Barten, Bradley R. Pieters, Lukas J. A. Stalpers, Renzo J. Scholman, Pedro M. Matos, Anton Bouter, Carien L. Creutzberg, Peter A. N. Bosman, Tanja Alderliesten

    Abstract: Multi-objective optimisation using BRIGHT has proven insightful and effective in prostate cancer brachytherapy treatment planning. BRachytherapy via artificially Intelligent GOMEA-Heuristic based Treatment planning (BRIGHT) generates multiple treatment plans, each with a different trade-off between tumour coverage and organs-at-risk sparing. BRIGHT was recently extended to cervical cancer brachyth… ▽ More

    Submitted 18 February, 2026; originally announced February 2026.

  3. arXiv:2601.05852  [pdf, ps, other

    cs.CV

    Kidney Cancer Detection Using 3D-Based Latent Diffusion Models

    Authors: Jen Dusseljee, Sarah de Boer, Alessa Hering

    Abstract: In this work, we present a novel latent diffusion-based pipeline for 3D kidney anomaly detection on contrast-enhanced abdominal CT. The method combines Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs), Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models (DDIMs), and Vector-Quantized Generative Adversarial Networks (VQ-GANs). Unlike prior slice-wise approaches, our method operates directly on an image volume and l… ▽ More

    Submitted 9 January, 2026; originally announced January 2026.

    Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures. This paper has been accepted at Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin (BVM) 2026

  4. EvalBlocks: A Modular Pipeline for Rapidly Evaluating Foundation Models in Medical Imaging

    Authors: Jan Tagscherer, Sarah de Boer, Lena Philipp, Fennie van der Graaf, Dré Peeters, Joeran Bosma, Lars Leijten, Bogdan Obreja, Ewoud Smit, Alessa Hering

    Abstract: Developing foundation models in medical imaging requires continuous monitoring of downstream performance. Researchers are burdened with tracking numerous experiments, design choices, and their effects on performance, often relying on ad-hoc, manual workflows that are inherently slow and error-prone. We introduce EvalBlocks, a modular, plug-and-play framework for efficient evaluation of foundation… ▽ More

    Submitted 1 April, 2026; v1 submitted 7 January, 2026; originally announced January 2026.

    Comments: Accepted and published in BVM 2026 proceedings (Springer)

  5. Robust Renal Mass Segmentation on CT: A Validation Study of an AI-Based Framework

    Authors: Sarah de Boer, Hartmut Häntze, Kiran Vaidhya Venkadesh, Myrthe A. D. Buser, Gabriel E. Humpire Mamani, Lina Xu, Lisa C. Adams, Jawed Nawabi, Keno K. Bressem, Bram van Ginneken, Mathias Prokop, Alessa Hering

    Abstract: Renal mass segmentation has important potential to enhance the clinical workflow, especially in settings requiring quantitative assessments. Kidney volume could serve as an important biomarker for renal diseases, with changes in volume correlating directly with kidney function. Currently, clinical practice often relies on subjective visual assessment for evaluating kidney size and kidney lesions,… ▽ More

    Submitted 8 June, 2026; v1 submitted 12 May, 2025; originally announced May 2025.

    Comments: Accepted for publication at the Journal of Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging (MELBA) https://melba-journal.org/2026:012. 23 pages, 12 figures

    Journal ref: Machine.Learning.for.Biomedical.Imaging. 2026 (2026)

  6. arXiv:2501.10727  [pdf, other

    cs.CV cs.AI cs.CY cs.DL eess.IV

    In the Picture: Medical Imaging Datasets, Artifacts, and their Living Review

    Authors: Amelia Jiménez-Sánchez, Natalia-Rozalia Avlona, Sarah de Boer, Víctor M. Campello, Aasa Feragen, Enzo Ferrante, Melanie Ganz, Judy Wawira Gichoya, Camila González, Steff Groefsema, Alessa Hering, Adam Hulman, Leo Joskowicz, Dovile Juodelyte, Melih Kandemir, Thijs Kooi, Jorge del Pozo Lérida, Livie Yumeng Li, Andre Pacheco, Tim Rädsch, Mauricio Reyes, Théo Sourget, Bram van Ginneken, David Wen, Nina Weng , et al. (4 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: Datasets play a critical role in medical imaging research, yet issues such as label quality, shortcuts, and metadata are often overlooked. This lack of attention may harm the generalizability of algorithms and, consequently, negatively impact patient outcomes. While existing medical imaging literature reviews mostly focus on machine learning (ML) methods, with only a few focusing on datasets for s… ▽ More

    Submitted 2 June, 2025; v1 submitted 18 January, 2025; originally announced January 2025.

    Comments: ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency - FAccT 2025

  7. arXiv:2404.09666  [pdf, other

    eess.IV cs.CV q-bio.QM

    Deformable MRI Sequence Registration for AI-based Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

    Authors: Alessa Hering, Sarah de Boer, Anindo Saha, Jasper J. Twilt, Mattias P. Heinrich, Derya Yakar, Maarten de Rooij, Henkjan Huisman, Joeran S. Bosma

    Abstract: The PI-CAI (Prostate Imaging: Cancer AI) challenge led to expert-level diagnostic algorithms for clinically significant prostate cancer detection. The algorithms receive biparametric MRI scans as input, which consist of T2-weighted and diffusion-weighted scans. These scans can be misaligned due to multiple factors in the scanning process. Image registration can alleviate this issue by predicting t… ▽ More

    Submitted 28 June, 2024; v1 submitted 15 April, 2024; originally announced April 2024.

  8. Dynamic Separation Logic

    Authors: Frank S. de Boer, Hans-Dieter A. Hiep, Stijn de Gouw

    Abstract: This paper introduces a dynamic logic extension of separation logic. The assertion language of separation logic is extended with modalities for the five types of the basic instructions of separation logic: simple assignment, look-up, mutation, allocation, and de-allocation. The main novelty of the resulting dynamic logic is that it allows to combine different approaches to resolving these modaliti… ▽ More

    Submitted 24 January, 2025; v1 submitted 16 September, 2023; originally announced September 2023.

    Journal ref: Electronic Notes in Theoretical Informatics and Computer Science, Volume 3 - Proceedings of MFPS XXXIX (November 23, 2023) entics:12297

  9. arXiv:2302.04661  [pdf, other

    cs.PL

    Proving Correctness of Parallel Implementations of Transition System Specifications

    Authors: Frank S. de Boer, Einar Broch Johnsen, Violet Ka I Pun, Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa

    Abstract: The overall problem addressed in this paper is the long-standing problem of program correctness, and in particular programs that describe systems of parallel executing processes. We propose a new method for proving correctness of parallel implementations of high-level transition system specifications. The implementation language underlying the method is based on the model of active (or concurrent)… ▽ More

    Submitted 25 January, 2023; originally announced February 2023.

  10. arXiv:2010.02069  [pdf, other

    cs.CL cs.AI

    The Grammar of Emergent Languages

    Authors: Oskar van der Wal, Silvan de Boer, Elia Bruni, Dieuwke Hupkes

    Abstract: In this paper, we consider the syntactic properties of languages emerged in referential games, using unsupervised grammar induction (UGI) techniques originally designed to analyse natural language. We show that the considered UGI techniques are appropriate to analyse emergent languages and we then study if the languages that emerge in a typical referential game setup exhibit syntactic structure, a… ▽ More

    Submitted 9 October, 2020; v1 submitted 5 October, 2020; originally announced October 2020.

    Comments: Accepted at EMNLP 2020

  11. arXiv:1911.04195  [pdf, ps, other

    cs.LO cs.SE

    Verifying OpenJDK's LinkedList using KeY

    Authors: Hans-Dieter A. Hiep, Olaf Maathuis, Jinting Bian, Frank S. de Boer, Marko van Eekelen, Stijn de Gouw

    Abstract: As a particular case study of the formal verification of state-of-the-art, real software, we discuss the specification and verification of a corrected version of the implementation of a linked list as provided by the Java Collection framework. Keywords: Java, standard library, deductive verification, KeY, Java Modeling Language, case study, bug

    Submitted 11 November, 2019; originally announced November 2019.

    Comments: 16 pages, 9 pages appendix

  12. arXiv:1909.06215  [pdf, ps, other

    cs.LO cs.PL

    Reasoning about call-by-value: a missing result in the history of Hoare's logic

    Authors: Krzysztof R. Apt, Frank S. de Boer

    Abstract: We provide a sound and relatively complete Hoare-like proof system for reasoning about partial correctness of recursive procedures in presence of local variables and the call-by-value parameter mechanism, and in which the correctness proofs are linear in the length of the program. We argue that in spite of the fact that Hoare-like proof systems for recursive procedures were intensively studied, no… ▽ More

    Submitted 13 September, 2019; originally announced September 2019.

    Comments: 28 pages

  13. Analysis of SLA Compliance in the Cloud -- An Automated, Model-based Approach

    Authors: Frank S. de Boer, Elena Giachino, Stijn de Gouw, Reiner Hähnle, Einar Broch Johnsen, Cosimo Laneve, Ka I Pun, Gianluigi Zavattaro

    Abstract: Service Level Agreements (SLA) are commonly used to specify the quality attributes between cloud service providers and the customers. A violation of SLAs can result in high penalties. To allow the analysis of SLA compliance before the services are deployed, we describe in this paper an approach for SLA-aware deployment of services on the cloud, and illustrate its workflow by means of a case study.… ▽ More

    Submitted 27 August, 2019; originally announced August 2019.

    Comments: In Proceedings VORTEX 2018, arXiv:1908.09302

    Journal ref: EPTCS 302, 2019, pp. 1-15

  14. Multi-Threaded Actors

    Authors: Keyvan Azadbakht, Frank S. de Boer, Vlad Serbanescu

    Abstract: In this paper we introduce a new programming model of multi-threaded actors which feature the parallel processing of their messages. In this model an actor consists of a group of active objects which share a message queue. We provide a formal operational semantics, and a description of a Java-based implementation for the basic programming abstractions describing multi-threaded actors. Finally, we… ▽ More

    Submitted 10 August, 2016; originally announced August 2016.

    Comments: In Proceedings ICE 2016, arXiv:1608.03131

    Journal ref: EPTCS 223, 2016, pp. 51-66

  15. arXiv:1004.4656  [pdf, ps, other

    cs.LO cs.PL

    Verification of Object-Oriented Programs: a Transformational Approach

    Authors: Krzysztof R. Apt, Frank S. de Boer, Ernst-Ruediger Olderog, Stijn de Gouw

    Abstract: We show that verification of object-oriented programs by means of the assertional method can be achieved in a simple way by exploiting a syntax-directed transformation from object-oriented programs to recursive programs. This transformation suggests natural proofs rules and its correctness helps us to establish soundness and relative completeness of the proposed proof system. One of the difficulti… ▽ More

    Submitted 8 November, 2011; v1 submitted 26 April, 2010; originally announced April 2010.

    Comments: 49 pages. To appear in Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Stijn de Gouw is now a new author

    ACM Class: F.3.1

  16. arXiv:0907.4316  [pdf, ps, other

    cs.LO cs.PL

    Modular Verification of Recursive Programs

    Authors: Krzysztof R. Apt, Frank S. de Boer, Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog

    Abstract: We argue that verification of recursive programs by means of the assertional method of C.A.R. Hoare can be conceptually simplified using a modular reasoning. In this approach some properties of the program are established first and subsequently used to establish other program properties. We illustrate this approach by providing a modular correctness proof of the Quicksort program.

    Submitted 24 July, 2009; originally announced July 2009.

    Comments: 21 pages. appeared in: Languages: From Formal to Natural, Essays Dedicated to Nissim Francez on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5533 Springer 2009

    ACM Class: F.3.1

  17. arXiv:cs/0208042  [pdf, ps, other

    cs.LO cs.PL

    Proving correctness of Timed Concurrent Constraint Programs

    Authors: F. S. de Boer, M. Gabbrielli, M. C. Meo

    Abstract: A temporal logic is presented for reasoning about the correctness of timed concurrent constraint programs. The logic is based on modalities which allow one to specify what a process produces as a reaction to what its environment inputs. These modalities provide an assumption/commitment style of specification which allows a sound and complete compositional axiomatization of the reactive behavior… ▽ More

    Submitted 28 August, 2002; originally announced August 2002.

    ACM Class: F.3.1; D.3.1; D.3.2

  18. arXiv:cs/0207008  [pdf, ps, other

    cs.AI cs.PL

    Agent Programming with Declarative Goals

    Authors: F. S. de Boer, K. V. Hindriks, W. van der Hoek, J. -J. Ch. Meyer

    Abstract: A long and lasting problem in agent research has been to close the gap between agent logics and agent programming frameworks. The main reason for this problem of establishing a link between agent logics and agent programming frameworks is identified and explained by the fact that agent programming frameworks have not incorporated the concept of a `declarative goal'. Instead, such frameworks have… ▽ More

    Submitted 3 July, 2002; originally announced July 2002.

    ACM Class: F.3.1; F.3.2; I.2.5; I.2.4