arXiv:2608. 03342v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conditional segmentation models may be trained and evaluated with auxiliary signals cleaner than those available at deployment.
arXiv:2608. 10903v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable clinical deployment of machine learning requires models that know when they are likely to fail, particularly for subgroups underrepresented in training data.
arXiv:2609.18256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliability under sparse and heterogeneous failures remains a fundamental challenge for medical image segmentation. High average accuracy can conceal a...
arXiv:2607. 05008v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Echocardiography is the first imaging modality used for assessing cardiac function, and accurate segmentation of cardiac structures is essential for deriving biomarkers.
The paper introduces the "segmentation ceiling," a quantitative criterion that determines when explicit left‑ventricular (LV) segmentation can improve ejection fraction (EF) regression. By deriving how per‑frame segmentation area error propagates into EF error, the authors find that a break‑even error of about 10% per frame is required, whereas typical segmenters exceed this threshold (~14%). Consequently, several strategies that incorporate segmentation or area information fail to outperform a raw‑video baseline, while techniques such as weight averaging with strong augmentation and a heteroscedastic beta‑NLL loss yield competitive EF predictions and well‑calibrated uncertainty estimates.
arXiv:2609.21412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical image segmenters often get worse when sites, scanner vendors, or protocols change. Continual test-time adaptation (CTTA) addresses this problem...
arXiv:2605. 16427v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep learning models for echocardiography segmentation often struggle to generalise across institutions, scanners, and patient populations, where collecting large, consistently annotated datasets is infeasible.
Reliability under sparse and heterogeneous failures remains a fundamental challenge for medical image segmentation. High average accuracy can conceal a small set of structurally distinct and clinicall...
arXiv:2606. 10410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Objective: Accurate classification of physiological signals in real-world deployments is challenged by sensor noise, motion artifacts, and distribution shifts between training and deployment data.
The paper introduces SonoCorpus, an open dataset of 456,963 ultrasound images with 1,626,085 expert masks from 53 public sources across 24 clinical applications and 17 countries, and SonoBase, an interactive segmentation foundation model pretrained on this data. SonoBase outperforms existing models (SAM2, MedSAM2, MedSAM3) on fifteen diverse evaluation datasets, matching specialist models and achieving clinically relevant accuracy for metrics such as ejection fraction, fetal head circumference, and gestational age. The authors provide full reproducibility resources, including checkpoints, optimizer states, and starter code, to enable community adoption and further development.
arXiv:2608. 00943v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated sleep staging assigns discrete stage labels to successive time epochs throughout an overnight recording; conventionally each window spans at least 30 seconds, reflecting the minimum temporal resolution of the clinical scoring standard.
arXiv:2607. 22727v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical image segmentation models often report high benchmark accuracy under ideal imaging conditions, yet their failures under clinical degradation can be quiet: sensor noise, patient motion, low- resolution acquisition, and contrast variability may all alter model behavior without producing an obvious warning.
arXiv:2608. 07299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Radiology reports describe clinical observations but do not specify executable segmentation targets.