arXiv Computer Vision

Fed-ADApt: Federated Anytime Depth Adaptation for Resource-Aware Medical Image Segmentation

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 21

MOSAIC: Modality-agnostic Spectral Alignment for Federated Image-level Weakly Supervised Tumor Segmentation under Client-specific Missing Modalities

arXiv:2608. 19788v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Trustworthy multimodal fusion in clinical settings requires handling incomplete and heterogeneous modality subsets across institutions, where privacy constraints prohibit centralized data sharing.

By Tarun Kumar Garg, Vaanathi Sundaresan
arXiv AI
Jun 16

Federated Medical Image Segmentation under Real-World Label Noise: A Benchmark Suite for Noisy Label Learning Method Selection

arXiv:2606. 16868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While federated learning (FL) enables collaborative medical image segmentation without centralizing sensitive data, real-world deployment is frequently complicated by cross-site label imperfections such as contour disagreement, missing or additional structures, and confused labels.

By Markus Bujotzek, Dimitrios Bounias, Stefan Denner, Ralf Floca, Maximilian Fischer, Peter Neher, Klaus Maier-Hein
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18

CoM$^3$eT: A foundation model for medical image analysis through federated, multidimensional context integration

arXiv:2608. 16268v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical foundation models improve generalization when training AI models with limited labeled data, but remain confined to a single specialty, such as pathology or radiology, and to either sparse or dense outputs, such as classification or segmentation.

By J. Raphael Sch\"afer, Kai Geissler, Till Nicke, Chiara Tappermann, Karoline Heber, Eike Petersen, Habib Mergan, Lars Ole Schwen, Nick Weiss, Annika Gerken, Jan Hendrik Moltz, Tom Bisson, Isil Dogan O, Tim-Rasmus Kiehl, Norman Zerbe, Sefer Elezkurtaj, Robin S. Mayer, Nadine Flinner, Peter Wild, Isabel Dahm, Felix Peisen, Heinrich von Busch, Robert Grimm, Sebastian Arndt, Lisa Siegler, Matthias Stefan May, Antje Prasse, Natalia Artysh, Fabian Kiessling, Johannes Lotz
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

DART: Depth-as-Target Pretraining for Surgical Vision Foundation Models

DART is a new RGB‑D pretraining method for surgical vision foundation models that incorporates pseudo‑labeled depth maps as a pixel‑space reconstruction target during training. By adding a depth reconstruction head to DINOv2’s masked iBOT framework, DART improves representation quality without affecting downstream RGB‑only fine‑tuning or inference. Across eight surgical benchmarks—including segmentation, depth estimation, and image‑level recognition—DART outperforms both natural‑image and in‑domain baselines, demonstrating that geometric pseudo‑labels can strengthen foundation model pretraining without extra labels or inference cost.

By John J. Han, Adam Schmidt, Muhammad Abdullah Jamal, Jie Ying Wu, Omid Mohareri
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

Improving Cross-Site Whole-Heart Segmentation

The paper presents a modality‑routed 3D cardiac segmentation pipeline that combines TotalSegmentator‑initialized nnU‑Netv2 models with site‑characterized, label‑preserving appearance augmentation. By analyzing measurable image properties across sites, the authors design a bias‑field plus Bezier augmentation strategy that smooths spatial intensity perturbations and remaps intensities nonlinearly, followed by class‑wise largest‑connected‑component cleanup. On held‑out validation splits, this approach raises CT mean Dice from 0.8350 to 0.9135 and MRI mean Dice from 0.7695 to 0.7830 while reducing HD95, demonstrating improved cross‑site robustness in limited‑data whole‑heart segmentation.

By Tanish Mudaliar, Justin Li, Daniel Lin, Julianna Vo, Kaitao Liao, Xin Wang, Shu Hu