Pixel-level annotation remains a major bottleneck in medical image segmentation, making weak supervision an attractive yet under-constrained alternative. We propose OBBSeg, an intermediate supervision paradigm guided by Oriented Bounding Boxes (OBBs) that bridges the gap between full and weak supervision.
arXiv:2606. 04705v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic segmentation in medical imaging is a critical yet challenging task due to data scarcity and high variability across modalities.
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:2607. 13237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Precise spatial-temporal annotation of laparoscopic videos is time-consuming and requires expert knowledge.
arXiv:2608. 09818v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable medical image understanding requires models to connect clinical language and visual reasoning with pixel-level grounding.
arXiv:2607. 09481v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-guided medical image segmentation leverages clinical semantics to improve lesion delineation, yet many existing models bind cross-modal fusion, supervision, and decoder design into a task-specific architecture.
arXiv:2607. 16705v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is an effective solution for medical image segmentation with limited annotations.
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.
Medical image segmentation relies on the ability of encoder-decoder architectures to translate rich feature representations into accurate pixel-level predictions under challenging conditions such as low contrast, structural ambiguity, and scale variability. While recent advances in large-scale pretraining and transformer-based encoders have substantially improved feature extraction, segmentation accuracy remains constrained by decoder design, particularly in terms of cross-scale alignment, contextual integration, and boundary preservation.
arXiv:2607. 14328v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In proton therapy planning, respiratory-gated non-contrast CT (NCCT) is commonly used for lesion segmentation; however, accurate delineation remains challenging due to low lesion-to-background contrast.
arXiv:2608. 00442v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Medical anomaly detection identifies abnormal images and localizes lesions under scarce supervision while generalizing across organs and modalities.
arXiv:2607. 24453v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning from minimal human supervision is a long-standing goal in medical image analysis, where dense expert annotations are costly.
Region-based loss functions, such as the Dice loss, have established themselves as the de facto standard for highly class- and region-imbalanced segmentation tasks. However, models trained using region-based loss functions are notoriously miscalibrated and typically yield over-confident predictions.