arXiv Machine Learning

Virtual Patients, Real Gains: Digital Twin-Based Simulated CT for Multitask Lung Nodule Analysis

arXiv:2502. 21187v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI-based lung cancer screening is constrained by scarce, annotated CT data, particularly for rare nodule presentations.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

Foundation Models vs. Radiomics for Lung Computed Tomography: A Benchmark of Feature Extractors, Classification Heads, and Segmentation Choices

arXiv:2607. 01001v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Radiomics is the established approach for CT-based lung cancer phenotyping, yet comparisons with foundation models rarely isolate contributions of feature extractor, classification head, and segmentation choice, or test cross-cohort robustness.

By Nils Neukirch, Martin Maurer, Nils Strodthoff
arXiv AI
1d ago

FZ-VLM: A Two Stage Florence-Zephyr Vision Language Model Framework for Pulmonary Nodule Characterization and Clinical Decision Making

arXiv:2608. 15004v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lung cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide, and Computed Tomography (CT) is a primary imaging tool for screening and followup assessment.

By Pramit Dutta, Jenita Manokaran, Richa Mittal, Ryan Appleby, Eranga Ukwatta
arXiv AI
Jun 8

When is 3D Worth It? A Resource-Performance Frontier for CNNs and Transformers in Lung CT

arXiv:2606. 06950v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Three-dimensional models are widely assumed preferable for volumetric medical imaging, yet their practical value depends on whether performance gains justify added computational cost and complexity.

By Md Enamul Hoq, Sharafat Hossain, Imraul Emmaka, Linda Larson-Prior, Lawrence Tarbox, Jonathan Bona, Donald Johann Jr. and Fred Prior
arXiv AI
Jun 2

RadAgent: A tool-using AI agent for stepwise interpretation of chest computed tomography

arXiv:2604. 15231v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language models (VLM) have markedly advanced AI-driven interpretation and reporting of complex medical imaging, such as computed tomography (CT).

By M\'elanie Roschewitz, Kenneth Styppa, Yitian Tao, Jiwoong Sohn, Jean-Benoit Delbrouck, Benjamin Gundersen, Nicolas Deperrois, Christian Bluethgen, Julia E. Vogt, Bjoern Menze, Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Michael Krauthammer, Michael Moor
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

A Multi-Center Benchmark for Abdominal Disease Diagnosis and Report Generation from Non-Contrast CT

arXiv:2606. 16991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multiphasic contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) is widely used for abdominal lesion characterization, yet it carries inherent risks of contrast-induced nephropathy, escalates acquisition burden, and heavily contributes to radiologist workload.

By Mariam Elbakry, Aliaa Sayed Sheha, Salma Hassan Tantawy, Aya Yassin, Concetto Spampinato, Karim Lekadir, Xiaomeng Li, Marawan Elbatel
arXiv AI
Jul 8

CONFLUX: A Latent Diffusion Model for 3D Chest-CT Synthesis with RL Post-Training

arXiv:2607. 02998v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Controllable generative models of 3D medical images can synthesize volumes with specified clinical attributes, but this demands samples that are simultaneously high-fidelity, natively 3D, and faithful to the requested conditioning.

By Max Van Puyvelde, Halil Ibrahim Gulluk, Wim Van Criekinge, Olivier Gevaert
arXiv AI
Jul 7

CONFLUX: A Latent Diusion Model for 3D Chest-CT Synthesis with RL Post-Training

arXiv:2607. 02998v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Controllable generative models of 3D medical images can synthesize volumes with specified clinical attributes, but this demands samples that are simultaneously high-fidelity, natively 3D, and faithful to the requested conditioning.

By Max Van Puyvelde, Halil Ibrahim Gulluk, Wim Van Criekinge, Olivier Gevaert
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Pre-Deployment Robustness Stress Testing for CT Segmentation Systems Using Clinically Motivated Multi-Corruption Augmentation

arXiv:2606. 00491v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning-based CT segmentation systems often achieve high accuracy on clean benchmark images, but their performance may degrade under heterogeneous clinical imaging conditions such as noise, resolution loss, contrast variation, intensity shift, and artifacts.

By CholMin Kang, Jonghyun Chung, Amanpreet Kaurb, Nagesh Gulkotwarb, Arthi Sivasankaranb
arXiv AI
Jun 16

Enabling Real-Time Point-of-Care Ultrasound Segmentation: A GPU-Free Deployment in Resource-Limited Settings

arXiv:2606. 15176v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ultrasound imaging is the most widely adopted medical modality globally due to its low cost and portability, yet artificial intelligence (AI) deployment remains constrained by reliance on GPU-accelerated models, creating a structural paradox where the cost of "intelligence" exceeds that of the imaging device itself.

By Weihao Gao