Simple, Safe, and Overlooked: Reclaiming Sustainable Domain Generalization with Statistical Color Matching
Hardware shifts, color variations, and changing patient characteristics between development and deployment routinely break trained medical image classifiers. Existing remedies fall short: standard color jittering provides insufficient diversity, while deep generative style transfer algorithms hallucinate features, destroy clinically relevant structures, and waste massive compute resources. To address this, we revisit classical statistical color matching and repurpose it as Colorist, a highly efficient data augmentation strategy that applies global mean-standard deviation matching directly in the RGB color space. We demonstrate that this training-free, fully interpretable approach safely g...
| Authors | Sebastian Doerrich, Francesco Di Salvo, Shyam Nandan Rai et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 19 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 9 September 2026 |
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