WoundAmbit is a framework that evaluates state‑of‑the‑art deep learning models for wound segmentation, benchmarking general‑purpose vision, medical imaging, and public wound challenge methods under standardized training, augmentation, and cross‑validation. The study finds transformer‑based TransNeXt offers the best generalizability, while all models run at least one image per second on a CPU and show strong interpretability and expert‑approved mask quality. The framework also introduces a reference‑object approach to convert masks into clinically relevant wound size estimates, demonstrating close alignment with expert annotations and integration into a custom telehealth system.
By Vanessa Borst, Timo Dittus, Tassilo Dege, Astrid Schmieder, Samuel Kounev
The paper evaluates how well generalist and dermatology-specific machine learning models perform on diverse skin lesion datasets, including dermoscopic images and smartphone photographs. It benchmarks a range of architectures—general-purpose vision-language models, foundation models, and task-specific dermatology classifiers—under conditions of distribution shift, modality change, and demographic variability. The study quantifies the performance gap between current state‑of‑the‑art models and the robustness needed for safe, equitable clinical deployment.
By Emanoel dos Santos, Kelvin Cunha, Rodrigo Mota, Fabio Papais, Thales Bezerra, Natalia Lopes, Erico Medeiros, Shirley Cruz, Jessica Araujo, Paulo Borba, Tsang Ing Ren
GAMF-Net is a grouped availability‑aware multimodal fusion network designed for smartphone skin lesion classification. It divides ten clinical variables into three semantic groups—demographics, history‑related risk, and lesion presentation—and encodes each group with field values and availability masks. The image branch supplies base logits while each clinical group contributes image‑conditioned residual evidence; only available groups are fused with equal weight, and the model defaults to image‑only when no clinical data are present. Evaluated on PAD‑UFES‑20, GAMF-Net achieves an accuracy of 74.17 % and outperforms image‑only and other multimodal baselines, with ablation studies highlighting the importance of clinical information and constrained equal‑weight fusion.
By Yue Zhuo, Jingjia Yan, Fangyu Liu, Lingjun Liu, Zongjun Chen, Zhisheng Luo, Zhonghua Xie
arXiv:2609.36400v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Deep learning classifiers for dermoscopic skin lesions often reach high in-distribution accuracy while quietly relying on spurious background cues su...
By Youssef Attia, Debasmita Mukherjee
arXiv:2511. 18676v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current vision-language models (VLMs) in medicine are primarily designed for categorical question answering (e.
By Yongcheng Yao, Yongshuo Zong, Raman Dutt, Yongxin Yang, Sotirios A Tsaftaris, Timothy Hospedales
arXiv:2608.21583v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Oral cancer is a leading cause of mortality in low-to-middle-income countries, where a shortage of specialists delays diagnosis. While point-of-care sc...
By Siddhant Bharadwaj, Aakash Shedsale, Tejashree Subramanya, Mohd. Azfar, Praveen Birur, Debnath Pal, Shankararama Sharma, Anupama Shetty, Rajesh Sundaresan
arXiv:2603.26483v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Medical edge-AI systems must operate under a difficult tension: delivering reliable diagnostic inference while running on devices with limited batt...
By Mostafa Anoosha, Dhavalkumar Thakker, Kuniko Paxton, Koorosh Aslansefat, Bhupesh Kumar Mishra, Baseer Ahmad, Rameez Raja Kureshi
LENS‑GRF is a permutation‑invariant lesion evidence network that uses a Set‑Transformer and gated residual fusion to combine global facial context with localized lesion patches for four‑class acne severity grading. The framework integrates adaptive facial skin segmentation, a Vision Transformer prior, and a lesion set transformer that encodes spatial geometry, with a gating mechanism that modulates local residual contributions. In experiments on ACNE04 and PLSBRACNE01, the fully automated model achieved 80.82% accuracy, while using ground‑truth lesion annotations raised accuracy to 95.89% and a Quadratic Weighted Kappa of 0.9753; zero‑shot evaluation on the full cohort yielded 35.00% accuracy versus 42.50% for a global baseline, and oracle analyses on a 148‑subject cohort showed improved accuracy and QWK up to 47.97% and 0.5799.
By Muhammad Muhtasim Shahriar, M. F. Mridha
arXiv:2607. 09142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in online medical consultation, yet existing benchmarks remain poorly aligned with real clinical practice.
By Runhan Shi, Quan Zhou, Yuqian Xu, Shuai Yang, Xin Wu, Zitong Zhou, Hui Liu, Bin Cha, Zheming Wang, Liya Li, Wei Wei, Haoyuan Hu, Jun Xu
arXiv:2610.08528v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Clinical diagnosis is inherently a structured reasoning process, yet existing deep learning models often bypass this structure by mapping image featu...
By Asim Khan, Samee Ullah Khan, Dwarikanath Mahapatra
arXiv:2512. 21414v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent tool-use frameworks powered by vision-language models (VLMs) improve image understanding by grounding model predictions with specialized tools.
By Christina Liu, Alan Q. Wang, Joy Hsu, Jiajun Wu, Ehsan Adeli
arXiv:2607. 07673v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medicine is inherently multimodal, requiring clinicians to synthesize information across diverse data streams.
By Hyunjae Kim, Dain Kim, Pan Xiao, Serina S. Applebaum, Younjoon Chung, Xuguang Ai, Yu Yin, Roy Jiang, Yuexi Du, Yawen Wei, Yiming Kong, Tuo Guo, Zhiyuan Cao, Mengmeng Du, Yuelei Fu, Yan Hu, Rui Shi, Gui Yang, Kevin W. Jin, Yuntian Liu, Yuxuan Tian, Jonathan Marquez, Zhen Chen, Sheng Zhang, Hoifung Poon, Hua Xu, Jaewoo Kang, Qingyu Chen