arXiv Computer Vision

AnyCXR: Human Anatomy Segmentation of Chest X-ray at Any Acquisition Position using Multi-stage Domain Randomized Synthetic Data with Imperfect Annotations and Conditional Joint Annotation Regularization Learning

AnyCXR is a unified framework that performs multi-organ segmentation on chest X-rays taken at any projection angle using only synthetic data. It employs a Multi-stage Domain Randomization engine to generate over 100,000 anatomically accurate synthetic radiographs from 3D CT volumes, and a Conditional Joint Annotation Regularization strategy to learn from partial, imperfect labels by enforcing anatomical consistency in a latent space. Trained solely on synthetic data, AnyCXR achieves strong zero-shot generalization on real-world datasets, accurately delineating 54 anatomical structures across PA, lateral, and oblique views, and supports downstream clinical tasks such as cardiothoracic ratio estimation, spine curvature assessment, and disease classification.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 23

FleXray: Universal Clinical X-ray Segmentation

arXiv:2609.26756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: X-ray is medicine's most widely used imaging modality, yet remains among its least quantitative. Unlike volumetric modalities like CT or MRI, X-ray col...

By Victor Ion Butoi, Vivek Gopalakrishnan, John V. Guttag, Adrian V. Dalca, Neel Dey
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 26

Example-based Robust Abnormality Detection with Minimal Annotations using Exemplar Med-DETR

arXiv:2608.24281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reducing annotation requirements remains a key challenge in developing robust medical object detectors. To address this, Vision-Language (VL) object de...

By Sheethal Bhat, Bogdan Georgescu, Awais Mansoor, Mathias Zinnen, Pranjal Sahu, Florin C. Ghesu, Sasa Grbic, Andreas Maier
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

DALE-CT: Depth-Aware 2D Slice Encoders Learn an Anatomical World Model of Chest CT

DALE-CT introduces depth‑aware 2D slice encoders that learn an anatomical world model of chest CT scans without 3D or positional supervision. By sampling self‑supervised views across a physical $z$‑axis slab, the encoder captures how anatomy changes between neighboring slices, enabling it to recover slice ordering and distinguish slices by anatomy alone. The model, trained on a large 287k‑scan corpus, achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on CT‑RATE and is released with full code and evaluation tools.

By Evan W. Damron, Mahmut S. Gokmen, Mitchell A. Klusty, Caroline N. Leach, Emily B. Collier, V. K. Cody Bumgardner
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 22

CXR-LT 2026 Challenge: Multi-Center Long-Tailed and Zero Shot Chest X-ray Classification

The CXR‑LT 2026 Challenge introduces a multi‑center, long‑tailed chest X‑ray classification benchmark with over 145,000 radiologist‑annotated images from PadChest and NIH datasets. It defines two core tasks: robust multi‑label classification on 30 known classes and open‑world generalization to 6 unseen rare disease classes. The paper outlines data collection, annotation, solution strategies, and evaluates performance across head‑vs‑tail, calibration, and cross‑center gaps, noting that vision‑language models improve in‑distribution and zero‑shot performance but rare‑finding detection under multi‑center shift remains difficult.

By Hexin Dong, Yi Lin, Pengyu Zhou, Fengnian Zhao, Alan Clint Legasto, Juno Cho, Dohui Kim, Justin Namuk Kim, Mingeon Kim, Sunwoo Kwak, Gabriel Moy\`a-Alcover, Ky Trung Nguyen, Thanh-Huy Nguyen, Ha-Hieu Pham, Huy-Hieu Pham, Huy Le Pham, Nikhileswara Rao Sulake, Aina Tur-Serrano, Ruichi Zhang, Ang Zu, Adam E. Flanders, Zhiyong Lu, Ronald M. Summers, Mingquan Lin, Hao Chen, Yuzhe Yang, George Shih, Yifan Peng
arXiv AI
Aug 25

SAS: Segment Anything Small for Ultrasound -- A Non-Generative Data Augmentation Technique for Robust Deep Learning in Ultrasound Imaging

The paper introduces Segment Anything Small (SAS), a data‑augmentation method that improves deep‑learning segmentation of small anatomical structures in ultrasound images. SAS uses two transformations: resizing and embedding organ thumbnails into a black background to vary organ scale, and adding noise to regions of interest to mimic tissue texture variability. Experiments on one internal and five external datasets show Dice score gains up to 0.35, with an average improvement of 0.16, and demonstrate that SAS enhances model robustness and generalizability without adding hallucinations or artifacts.

By Danielle L. Ferreira, Ahana Gangopadhyay, Hsi-Ming Chang, Ravi Soni, Gopal Avinash
arXiv AI
Sep 16

Beyond In-Distribution Metrics: A Systematic Out-of-Distribution Evaluation of Congenital Heart Disease Segmentation

The paper presents the first systematic evaluation of out‑of‑distribution generalization for congenital heart disease (CHD) segmentation, using the ImageCHD cohort as a held‑out target. It compares several segmentation architectures under different training regimes, showing that in‑distribution performance is a poor predictor of cross‑cohort robustness: nnU‑Net drops from 0.77 to 0.51 Dice, while SwinUNETR maintains higher performance at 0.67 Dice. Limited target‑domain adaptation with only 11 labeled ImageCHD cases boosts all SwinUNETR variants above 0.76 Dice, highlighting the importance of explicit cross‑dataset testing.

By Aniketh Vijesh, Shrisharanyan Vasu, Abhijit Ramesh, Clare Pomeroy-Ward, Harikrishnan Anil Maya, Sarin Xavier, Mahesh Kappanayil, Gilad Gressel
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 21

Vascular anatomy-aware self-supervised pre-training for X-ray angiogram analysis

The paper introduces VasoMIM, a vascular anatomy‑aware masked image modeling framework for X‑ray angiogram analysis, which uses an anatomy‑guided masking strategy and an anatomical consistency loss to learn robust vascular representations. It also presents XA‑170K, the largest pre‑training dataset for X‑ray angiograms. Experiments on six datasets and four downstream tasks show that VasoMIM outperforms existing methods and achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance.

By De-Xing Huang, Chaohui Yu, Xiao-Hu Zhou, Tian-Yu Xiang, Qin-Yi Zhang, Mei-Jiang Gui, Rui-Ze Ma, Chen-Yu Wang, Nu-Fang Xiao, Fan Wang, Zeng-Guang Hou