Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

7-20-2025

Publication Title

Proceedings of the Thesis and Dissertation Contest (Concurso de Teses e Dissertações)

Volume

38

Pages

1-9

Publisher Name

Brazilian Computing Society (Sociedade Brasileira de Computação)

Publisher Location

Porto Alegre, Brazil

Abstract

To fight against the increasing misconduct cases in science, this Ph. D. research confronted the challenge of scientific integrity with a pioneering investigation into digital forensic analysis specifically tailored for biomedical images. This work conducted extensive research into key manipulation types–copy-move forgery, image reuse, and AI-generated content–developing novel, fully explainable, and auditable computational detection methods for each. In a commitment to transparency and to promote research to the area, these techniques are provided as open-source resources. Besides the isolated techniques for each type of image forged, a central contribution is the development of an end-to-end system, created through collaboration with international forensic experts and the US Office of Research Integrity (ORI). This system automates the analysis of scientific publications, starting from PDF documents and ending by identifying figures with potential integrity concerns.

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© The Author(s), 2025. This article is posted here by permission of the Brazilian Computing Society for personal use and non-commercial redistribution. This article was published open access in the Proceedings of the Thesis and Dissertation Contest, Vol. 38 (July 20, 2025), https://doi.org/10.5753/ctd.2025.9167.

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