arXiv AI

MedSegBenchmarker: A Raw-Count-First Framework for Controlled 2D Medical Image Segmentation Benchmarks

arXiv AI
Aug 28

Pixel Wised Lesion Prediction on COVID-19 CT Imagery: A Comparative Analysis of Automated Image Segmentation Architectures

The study evaluates four deep‑learning segmentation architectures—Unet, PSPNet, Linknet, and FPN—paired with six pre‑trained encoders to predict COVID‑19 lesions in CT images. Experiments on three COVID‑19 CT datasets show high accuracy, achieving a maximum binary F1‑score of 98% and multi‑class F1‑scores of 75% and 77%. The work aims to provide a standardized performance benchmark for medical image segmentation and a reference for other imaging scenarios.

By Sarmad Khan, Basim Azam, Arslan Shaukat
arXiv AI
Oct 27

FOCUS: Benchmarking Retinal Model Generalization from Foundation Vision Encoders to Multimodal LLMs

The paper introduces FOCUS, a cross‑dataset benchmark for retinal fundus models that evaluates vision‑only encoders, vision‑language dual encoders, and multimodal large language models across ten public datasets. It measures ranking performance, calibration, subgroup disparities, and image‑quality robustness for tasks such as diabetic retinopathy and glaucomatous optic neuropathy. Results show no single model family dominates, with vision‑only encoders ranking highest on average, while fine‑tuning improves in‑domain performance but varies in external transfer.

By David Restrepo, Chenwei Wu, Luis Filipe Nakayama, Miguel L. Martins, Stergios Christodoulidis, Maria Vakalopoulou, Enzo Ferrante
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

CARDIAG: A Dense Segment Classification Benchmark of Deep Learning Architectures for Coronary Angiography

arXiv:2607. 22139v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate pixel-level classification of coronary angiograms is critical for cardiovascular disease assessment, yet the field lacks standardized evaluation protocols.

By Dominik Bernard Lau, Hubert Malinowski, Jerzy Szyjut, Adam Brzeski, Tomasz Dziubich, Rados{\l}aw Targo\'nski, Tomasz Figatowski, Natalia Zieli\'nska
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 23

A General-Purpose Dual-Path Interaction Framework for Multi-View Medical Image Segmentation: Alleviating Data Volume Dependency in Small-Sample Regimes

The paper introduces DPIF, a plug‑and‑play dual‑path interaction framework that can be integrated with any encoder‑decoder segmentation network. DPIF aligns cross‑view distributions using Sinkhorn optimal transport, decouples features via conditional mutual information to transfer knowledge within shared semantic spaces, and applies persistent homology‑based topological regularization to encode anatomical invariants. Experiments on a private echocardiography dataset and two public datasets show that DPIF‑enhanced models outperform single‑view baselines and achieve comparable performance to full‑data single‑view models while using only 40–60% of the data.

By Shuhuan Wang, Yuanyuan Cui, Pengju Wang, Huimin Guo, Ling Yue, Yin Gu, Yanchao Zhang, Wei Feng, Yunhe Liu, Wei Qian, Mingjun Xu, Shuang Liu, He Ma
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 16

A Decision-Aware Evaluation Protocol for Uncertainty in Medical Image Segmentation

The paper introduces a decision‑aware evaluation protocol for medical image segmentation uncertainty that separates uncertainty estimation from deferral policy and assesses their joint performance under fixed review budgets. It reports metrics such as fixed‑budget error reduction, risk‑coverage behavior, region‑level review proxies, structural failure modes, and sensitivity to review assumptions. Experiments on retinal vessel, skin lesion, and polyp segmentation with various backbones and uncertainty estimators show that estimator rankings vary with review unit, uncertainty target, and cost model, and that boundary and thin‑structure failures are partly due to annotation ambiguity.

By Saket Maganti, Shreyank N Gowda