The study evaluated a pragmatic deep‑learning approach for segmenting acute ischemic stroke lesions on diffusion‑weighted MRI. Using a self‑configured nnU‑Net trained on 1,744 cases and tested on 436, the baseline model achieved a median Dice similarity coefficient of 0.84, outperforming the DeepISLES ensemble, especially for smaller infarcts. The approach required minimal preprocessing and fast inference, suggesting it could streamline clinical stroke imaging workflows.
arXiv:2607. 03568v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Objective: Accurate identification of acute ischemic infarcts on diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) is a critical prerequisite for reliable lesion quantification and effective clinical decision support in the management of cerebrovascular events.
arXiv:2601. 20503v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: White matter hyperintensities (WMH) and ischaemic stroke lesions (ISL) are key imaging biomarkers of cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) detectable on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
arXiv:2608. 19769v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fast and accurate segmentation of Acute Ischemic Stroke (AIS) lesions is essential for stroke prognosis and treatment planning.
arXiv:2606. 15457v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D FLAIR MRI is widely recommended as one of the standard MRI sequences for brain imaging in multiple sclerosis (MS), but publicly available MS datasets remain relatively small and vary across scanners, acquisition protocols, and lesion patterns.
arXiv:2606. 01293v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate segmentation of fetal brain tissues in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is critical for early diagnosis of congenital abnormalities and improving prenatal care.
arXiv:2606. 29106v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neurological disorders involve diverse pathologies of the brain and nervous system, making early and accurate detection essential.
arXiv:2608.23745v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate brain tumor segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for diagnosis, treatment planning, surgical guidance, and diseas...
The study evaluates four deep‑learning segmentation architectures—Unet, PSPNet, Linknet, and FPN—paired with six pre‑trained encoders to predict COVID‑19 lesions in CT images. Experiments on three COVID‑19 CT datasets show high accuracy, achieving a maximum binary F1‑score of 98% and multi‑class F1‑scores of 75% and 77%. The work aims to provide a standardized performance benchmark for medical image segmentation and a reference for other imaging scenarios.
arXiv:2608.23882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Segmenting ischemic stroke lesions on T1-weighted (T1w) MRI acquired across different scanners and protocols without intensity standardization is dif...
Segmenting ischemic stroke lesions on T1-weighted (T1w) MRI acquired across different scanners and protocols without intensity standardization is difficult because lesions are subtle and share intensi...
Brain tissue microstructure estimation with machine learning provides higher computational efficiency than conventional fitting. However, machine learning still presents important limitations that hamper its clinical utility.
The paper introduces an unsupervised approach to medical image segmentation by training a Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) on 21 unlabeled abdominal CT scans to learn anatomical features. The encoder weights from the DDPM are transferred to a U‑Net for downstream segmentation on the BTCV multi‑organ dataset, resulting in a significant Dice score improvement for liver segmentation from 0.75 to 0.93. In low‑data regimes, diffusion‑pretrained models retain robust performance, achieving high Dice scores even with only 10% of labeled data.