The paper introduces MedPCFM‑TED, a one‑step distillation framework that uses teacher‑guided endpoint supervision and geometric matching losses to generate cranial implants from point clouds. It outperforms existing one‑step methods on the SkullBreak benchmark, remains competitive on SkullFix, and achieves a generation time of about 0.04 s per sample. The approach demonstrates that rapid, high‑quality implant generation is possible without multiple neural evaluations during inference.
Medical point cloud completion is important for anatomical reconstruction and downstream clinical workflows, yet generative modeling in this setting remains insufficiently studied. We investigate completion through continuous-time generative modeling and introduce PCFM, a PTv3-backed flow matching approach for medical point cloud completion.
arXiv:2606. 24433v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical point cloud completion is important for anatomical reconstruction and downstream clinical workflows, yet generative modeling in this setting remains insufficiently studied.
The paper introduces a high‑resolution Rectified Flow Matching model trained on 256×256 chest CT images to serve as a generative prior for CT reconstruction. A two‑stage training strategy—initial strong anatomically informed augmentation followed by fine‑tuning—helps mitigate overfitting and improve structural fidelity. When evaluated on various CT inverse problems, Flow Matching‑based reconstruction methods outperform diffusion‑based algorithms in PSNR, SSIM, and perceptual quality while requiring fewer sampling steps.
Flow and diffusion models suffer from slow inference due to computationally expensive numerical integration. Distillation provides a promising way for a student model to learn from a teacher's dynamic...
Consistent Distribution Matching is a data‑free distillation technique that accelerates diffusion and flow models by unifying sample generation and score estimation in a single student network. The method requires only a frozen teacher and a trainable student, optimizing a single objective that provably leads to Wasserstein convergence of the student’s flow‑map to the teacher’s marginals. On ImageNet 256×256, it achieves an FID of 2.04 with one function evaluation and 1.37 with four evaluations after just 40 training epochs, outperforming existing data‑free baselines.
arXiv:2610.01956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Complex surgical procedures around critical anatomy, such as the endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery, requires significant practice and training on...
arXiv:2605.16742v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cortical surface registration is often driven by local geometric descriptors (e.g., sulcal depth and curvature). While this approach achieves geome...
3D point cloud registration in laparoscopic surgery estimates the transformation between an intraoperative organ reconstructed from video and its preoperative mesh. Because ground-truth transformations are unavailable for real data, supervised networks are trained on synthetic organ pairs.
arXiv:2610.19305v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: One-step diffusion distillation achieves strong performance on small datasets but remains insufficient for high-resolution or complex text-to-image set...
The paper introduces data‑space iteration, a few‑step generation framework that eliminates the need for a fixed probability‑flow discretization. By refining predictions directly in data space with a shared generator, each iteration is trained to produce the best possible sample within its capacity. Experiments on class‑conditional ImageNet 256×256 show that data‑space iteration outperforms standard discretization baselines and matches or improves upon schedule‑searched variants without schedule‑specific training.
The paper investigates test‑time adaptation (TTA) techniques for 3D point‑cloud registration in laparoscopic surgery, where synthetic training data must be adapted to noisy, sparse, and occluded real intraoperative reconstructions. It adapts three families of TTA methods—model, normalization, and input adaptation—to handle asymmetric shifts between preoperative meshes and intraoperative clouds, replacing classification‑based entropy objectives with correspondence‑based ones. Experiments on synthetic and real targets show that input adaptation consistently reduces registration error with low inference latency, making it the most promising approach for surgical applications.
arXiv:2608. 00187v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Correspondence-based statistical shape modeling (SSM) is vital for population-level morphometric analysis, but conventional pipelines assume clean, fully registered surfaces.