Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Adversarial attacks and adversarial robustness in computational pathology

  • Narmin Ghaffari Laleh,
  • Daniel Truhn,
  • Gregory Patrick Veldhuizen,
  • Tianyu Han,
  • Marko van Treeck,
  • Roman D. Buelow,
  • Rupert Langer,
  • Bastian Dislich,
  • Peter Boor,
  • Volkmar Schulz,
  • Jakob Nikolas Kather

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33266-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Artificial Intelligence can support diagnostic workflows in oncology, but they are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Here, the authors show that convolutional neural networks are highly susceptible to white- and black-box adversarial attacks in clinically relevant classification tasks.