arXiv Computer Vision

Uni-Light: An Ultra-Lightweight Framework via Uncertainty-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Brain Tumour Segmentation

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

Trustworthy Medical Segmentation: Uncertainty-Aware U-Net Evaluation Under Clinical Image Degradation

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.

By Pranav Kaliaperumal, Manisha Kaliaperumal
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 15

Contrastive uncertainty learning for robust multi-structure segmentation in lower-pelvic MR

The paper introduces Contrastive Uncertainty Learning (CUL), a supervised framework that leverages voxel‑wise predictive uncertainty to guide representation learning for multi‑structure segmentation in lower‑pelvic MRI. Using Monte Carlo Dropout, CUL identifies uncertain voxels and shapes the embedding space so that low‑uncertainty, correctly predicted features become stable while high‑uncertainty or misclassified features are repelled, preventing feature collapse at challenging boundaries. Evaluated on 589 prostate MRI scans with a ViT‑based UperNet decoder, CUL achieves comparable Dice scores to a baseline while significantly reducing surface distance for most structures, and ablation studies confirm the necessity of both uncertainty‑guided sampling and the contrastive objective.

By Bilal Sidiqi, Yipei Wang, Wen Yan, Shaheer U. Saeed, Daniel C. Alexander, Yipeng Hu
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 21

CAPS: Clinically-Verifiable Anatomy-Prioritized Synthesis for Missing MRI Imputation in Brain Tumor Segmentation

CAPS is a Clinically‑Verifiable Anatomy‑Prioritized Synthesis framework designed to impute missing MRI modalities for brain tumor segmentation. It uses a hybrid loss (L₁ + L_AFP + L_DualDice) to preserve deep anatomical features and topological boundaries, achieving high synthesis fidelity and robust segmentation (82.38% mean Dice) on the BraTS Adult Glioma dataset. The method also generalizes well to unseen cohorts and has been validated by blinded radiologists, who report improved image quality and clinical utility.

By Cecilia Diana-Albelda, Arthur Longuefosse, Mario Rub\'en Paz Campos, \'Alvaro Garc\'ia-Mart\'in, Jesus Bescos