Bowel Obstruction Detection and Localization on Abdominal CT with Deep Learning
arXiv:2607. 22173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bowel obstruction is a common and potentially life-threatening gastrointestinal condition.
The paper presents a three‑stage pipeline for colon segmentation in 3D abdominal CT scans that preserves anatomical continuity. First, a deep‑learning model generates an initial segmentation; second, centreline bridging reconnects disjoint regions; third, a reconstruction stage refines the continuity. Experiments on the TotalSegmentator and RAOS datasets show that the method improves topological consistency while keeping segmentation accuracy high.
arXiv:2607. 22173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bowel obstruction is a common and potentially life-threatening gastrointestinal condition.
arXiv:2608.24364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised pretraining enables transferable representations for medical imaging, yet most CT encoders remain biased toward coarse semantic underst...
The paper presents an automated segmentation pipeline for whole‑slide histopathology images of colorectal cancer, labeling tumor grades 1‑3 and normal mucosa. It employs dense prediction transformers with multiple encoder backbones, overlapping patches, test‑time augmentation, and an adaptive augmentation policy guided by large language models. The approach, combined with soft‑voting ensembles and post‑processing refinements, raises the F1 score from 62.92 to 69.84 on a colorectal cancer grade dataset.
arXiv:2606. 07717v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work proposes a lightweight 2D-U-Net-based framework for segmenting five abdominal organs in large field-of-view 3D CT scans.
arXiv:2607. 13826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate determination of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) resectability relies on evaluating how the tumor interacts with major peripancreatic vessels on CT imaging, yet expert assessment often shows substantial variability.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most deadly and third most common cancer, and the leading cause of death among gastrointestinal cancers. Early diagnosis is crucial for the treatment of this canc...
arXiv:2606. 17836v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Patient-specific 3D reconstruction of pelvic organ geometry from MRI is important for pelvic floor modeling and downstream patient-specific analysis.
Self-supervised pretraining enables transferable representations for medical imaging, yet most CT encoders remain biased toward coarse semantic understanding, limiting their sensitivity to fine-graine...
arXiv:2604.27697v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Peritoneal metastases (PM) are staged using the surgically determined Peritoneal Cancer Index (sPCI), which requires invasive laparoscopic as...
SegCol is a new dataset and benchmark for semantic segmentation of colon fold edges and surgical instruments in colonoscopy images, derived from the EndoMapper dataset. It offers manually annotated pixel‑level masks for three instrument classes and thin fold‑edge structures across temporally consistent image sequences, and serves as the basis for the SegCol Challenge within the EndoVis Challenge at MICCAI 2024. The study evaluates supervised segmentation and annotation‑efficient active learning, analyzes various segmentation metrics under structural perturbations, and highlights how metric behavior depends on target structure, underscoring the need for carefully selected evaluation protocols in endoscopic segmentation.
The paper presents a four‑layer hierarchical pipeline that constructs a lesion‑centered spatial record from colonoscopy videos without full‑colon 3D reconstruction. It combines a global topological map, lesion‑level spatio‑temporal tracks, on‑demand local 3D reconstruction, and persistent lesion identity across repeated observations, and evaluates the system on four public videos. The results show successful detection of revisit events, accurate lesion identity merging, and superior geometry accuracy compared to a general‑purpose foundation model.
arXiv:2511. 01143v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Early and accurate segmentation of colorectal polyps is critical for reducing colorectal cancer mortality, which has been extensively explored by academia and industry.