Vascular segmentation is a standard procedure for clinical diagnosis, yet the specific visual features determining model decisions remain poorly understood. This paper investigates the visual cues Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) use to segment blood vessels across two distinct imaging domains: fluorescence microscopy and retinal fundus photography.
arXiv:2607. 23371v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vascular segmentation is a standard procedure for clinical diagnosis, yet the specific visual features determining model decisions remain poorly understood.
arXiv:2406. 13128v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Due to the intricate structure of vascular trees, minor segmentation errors can significantly alter connectivity patterns and increase variability in extracted morphological properties.
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.
Accurate coronary Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) vessel segmentation is essential for computer-aided diagnosis and treatment planning of coronary artery disease (CAD). However, thin low-contrast vessels, background interference, and severe vessel-background class imbalance make reliable segmentation of weak distal branches and vessel boundaries challenging.
arXiv:2606. 16234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA) is critical for assessing retinal vascular abnormalities, but its acquisition is invasive and not always feasible.
arXiv:2607. 16065v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retinal layer segmentation in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a fundamental step for extracting quantitative biomarkers of retinal structure.
arXiv:2607. 13826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate determination of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) resectability relies on evaluating how the tumor interacts with major peripancreatic vessels on CT imaging, yet expert assessment often shows substantial variability.
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.
arXiv:2608. 12196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Purpose: Deep learning-based medical image segmentation has achieved remarkable success, yet purely data-driven approaches often fail to exploit the rich mathematical structure inherent in medical images.
arXiv:2606. 14828v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Leptomeningeal collaterals (LMCs) are an important prognostic factor in acute ischemic stroke.
arXiv:2607. 05317v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated detection of intracranial aneurysms (IAs) from CT angiography (CTA) is severely hindered by high false-positive rates.
arXiv:2603. 13377v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Representation learning has driven major advances in natural image analysis by enabling models to acquire high-level semantic features.