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Learning To Focus: Anatomy-Guided Attention Regularization for Medical Image Classification

Medical image classification models are ideally expected to identify diagnostically relevant regions while making predictions, yet standard classification losses rarely provide spatial supervision. Explicit supervision via anatomical shape information, such as segmentation masks of task-relevant anatomy, has been shown to guide the network toward regions relevant to the target prediction.

arXiv AI
Jun 3

Anatomy-Anchored Self-Supervision: Distilling Vision Foundation Models for Invariant Ultrasound Representation

arXiv:2605. 25402v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-supervised pre-training paradigm has gained increasing prominence for learning transferable representations in medical imaging, yet existing methods for ultrasound (US) images operate at the image or frame level, overlooking the anatomical context for clinical-aligned representation learning.

By Chunzheng Zhu, Yijun Wang, Jianxin Lin, Feng Wang, Hongwei Wang, Lei Zhao, Shengli Li, Kenli Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

DenseTRF: Texture-Aware Unsupervised Representation Adaptation for Surgical Scene Dense Prediction

DenseTRF is a self‑supervised framework that adapts texture‑aware representations for dense prediction in surgical computer vision. It uses slot attention to learn invariant visual structures and then conditions dense prediction on these representations, merging models to adapt to target distributions without supervision. Experiments on multiple surgical procedures show that DenseTRF improves cross‑distribution generalization compared to state‑of‑the‑art segmentation models and test‑distribution adaptation methods.

By Guiqiu Liao, Matja\v{z} Jogan, Daniel A. Hashimoto
arXiv AI
Aug 25

SAS: Segment Anything Small for Ultrasound -- A Non-Generative Data Augmentation Technique for Robust Deep Learning in Ultrasound Imaging

The paper introduces Segment Anything Small (SAS), a data‑augmentation method that improves deep‑learning segmentation of small anatomical structures in ultrasound images. SAS uses two transformations: resizing and embedding organ thumbnails into a black background to vary organ scale, and adding noise to regions of interest to mimic tissue texture variability. Experiments on one internal and five external datasets show Dice score gains up to 0.35, with an average improvement of 0.16, and demonstrate that SAS enhances model robustness and generalizability without adding hallucinations or artifacts.

By Danielle L. Ferreira, Ahana Gangopadhyay, Hsi-Ming Chang, Ravi Soni, Gopal Avinash
arXiv Computer Vision
3d ago

Learning Where to Look: Anatomical Grounding and Guided Attention for Cardiac MRI Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.39899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) enables assessment of cardiac anatomy, ventricular function, and myocardial tissue characteristics. Clinicians...

By Bangwei Guo, Xiao Chen, Boris Mailhe, Jia Yao, Yiqing Wang, Ankush Mukherjee, Yikang Liu, Zheyuan Zhang, Hang Yu, Terrence Chen, Shanhui Sun
arXiv AI
Sep 18

Optimal Transport Metric Learning for Feature Alignment in Partially Supervised Segmentation

The paper proposes a two‑stage learning framework for multi‑organ segmentation that handles partially annotated datasets and domain shifts. First, the model learns accurate segmentations from available annotations to build robust feature representations. Second, it introduces learnable organ prototypes and a Sinkhorn‑triplet loss to enforce organ‑wise feature consistency across datasets, keeping embeddings of the same organ close while separating different organs, even when annotations are missing.

By Dakini Mallam Garba, Salim Abdou Daoura