The paper investigates combining a domain‑specific self‑supervised task—voxel‑level brain age prediction—with a general task—image inpainting—to pretrain models for brain MRI segmentation. A multitask pretraining framework jointly optimizes both objectives, yielding representations that outperform single‑task pretraining and training from scratch on three segmentation benchmarks (multiple sclerosis lesions, ischemic stroke lesions, and cortical structures). The study demonstrates that integrating domain‑specific and general self‑supervised tasks benefits the development of generalizable neuroimaging foundation models.
By Tasneem Nasser, Susanne Schmid, Roberto Souza, Naser El-Sheimy
arXiv:2607. 17782v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models pretrained using self-supervised learning have transformed computer vision by learning transferable representations from large-scale unlabeled data.
By Moona Mazher, Abdul Qayyum, Steven A. Niederer, Daniel C. Alexander
The paper introduces MSM‑Seg, a dual‑memory segmentation framework for 3D multi‑modal brain tumor segmentation. It combines a modality‑and‑slice memory attention module to capture cross‑modal and spatial‑slice dependencies, a multi‑scale category‑agnostic prompt encoder for whole‑tumor guidance, and a modality‑adaptive fusion decoder to integrate complementary decoding information. Experiments on various MRI datasets show that MSM‑Seg surpasses state‑of‑the‑art methods for metastases and glioma tumor segmentation.
By Yuxiang Luo, Qing Xu, Hai Huang, Yuqi Ouyang, Xiangjian He, Zhen Chen, Wenting Duan, Jiebo Luo
arXiv:2609.15888v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Deep networks trained on structural MRI for Alzheimer's disease (AD) staging often reach reasonable accuracy while attending to anatomically irreleva...
By Paul-Gabriel Nicolae, Irina Georgiana Mocanu
arXiv:2601. 20503v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: White matter hyperintensities (WMH) and ischaemic stroke lesions (ISL) are key imaging biomarkers of cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) detectable on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
By Jesse Phitidis, Alison Q. Smithard, William N. Whiteley, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Miguel O. Bernabeu, Maria Vald\'es Hern\'andez
arXiv:2608.23745v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Accurate brain tumor segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for diagnosis, treatment planning, surgical guidance, and diseas...
By Mohammad Mahdi Danesh Pajouh, Sara Saeedi
BrainIAC is a unified framework for 3D brain lesion segmentation that handles heterogeneous MRI modalities and adapts online during interactive segmentation. It combines a multi‑modal backbone trained with zero‑filling and random modality dropping, 3D interactive prompts that default to fully automatic predictions, and a two‑stage online adaptation guided by pseudo‑labels and a Click‑Centered Gaussian loss. Experiments on seven MRI datasets show that the components work synergistically, outperforming existing methods and generalizing to unseen modalities and pathologies.
By Wentian Xu, Anthony P Addison, Ziyun Liang, Harry Anthony, Guang Yang, Konstantinos Kamnitsas
arXiv:2606. 18354v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in generative machine learning models have significantly improved medical imaging, offering promising solutions for data augmentation, privacy preservation, and improved model generalization.
By Muge Zhang, Muhammad Ali Khaliq, Jamal Alsakran, Byeong Kil Lee, Jeeho Ryoo
arXiv:2604. 27277v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Brain MRI underpins a wide range of neuroscientific and clinical applications, yet most learning-based methods remain task-specific and require substantial labeled data.
By Yizhou Wu, Shansong Wang, Yuheng Li, Mojtaba Safari, Mingzhe Hu, Chih-Wei Chang, Harini Veeraraghavan, Xiaofeng Yang
arXiv:2608.29944v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Brain tumor segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a critical task for diagnosis and treatment planning. Despite the success of deep learn...
By Henrique Zan Grande, Jo\~ao G. Pitol, Lucas B. Schuck, Rafael V. Serenato, Rayson Laroca, Andre Gustavo Hochuli
arXiv:2505.03380v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Accurate delineation of tumors and surrounding organs-at-risk is essential for radiotherapy, surgery and treatment response assessment, yet remains...
By Haonan Wang, Jiaji Mao, Lehan Wang, Qixiang Zhang, Marawan Elbatel, Yi Qin, Huijun Hu, Baoxun Li, Wenhui Deng, Weifeng Qin, Hongrui Li, Jialin Liang, Jun Shen, Xiaomeng Li
arXiv:2605.05522v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Although self-supervised pretraining is expected to learn broadly transferable representations, its effectiveness across imaging modalities s...
By Aneesh Rangnekar, Joao Miranda, Natally Horvat, Stephanie Chahwan, Samir Alrayess, Aditya Apte, Aditi Iyer, Eve LoCastro, Revathi Ravella, Marc J Gollub, Iva Petkovska, Jesse Joshua Smith, Paul Romesser, Julio Garcia-Aguilar, Harini Veeraraghavan, Joseph O Deasy