AI RESEARCH

H-SemiS: Hierarchical Fusion of Semi and Self-Supervised Learning for Knee Osteoarthritis Severity Grading

arXiv CS.CV

ArXi:2604.23335v1 Announce Type: new Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a degenerative joint disease that can lead to chronic pain, reduced mobility, and long-term disability. Automated severity grading from knee radiographs can early assessment, but current methods heavily depend on large labeled datasets and remain sensitive to class imbalance, noisy samples, and variability in clinical annotations.