arXiv AI

Multi-Granularity 3D Kidney Lesion Characterization from CT Volumes

arXiv:2606. 04365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Radiology reports describe kidney lesions by type, size, enhancement, and attenuation, yet existing 3D methods predict only at the patient or organ level.

arXiv AI
Jun 9

Robust Renal Mass Segmentation on CT: A Validation Study of an AI-Based Framework

arXiv:2505. 07573v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Renal mass segmentation has important potential to enhance the clinical workflow, especially in settings requiring quantitative assessments.

By Sarah de Boer, Hartmut H\"antze, Kiran Vaidhya Venkadesh, Myrthe A. D. Buser, Gabriel E. Humpire Mamani, Lina Xu, Lisa C. Adams, Jawed Nawabi, Keno K. Bressem, Bram van Ginneken, Mathias Prokop, Alessa Hering
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 Computer Vision
Sep 23

Radiomics--Foundation Fusion for Interpretable RCC Classification: Internal Benchmarking and Exploratory External Transfer

arXiv:2609.26578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate preoperative subtype classification of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) from contrast-enhanced CT remains clinically challenging because clear cell...

By Yuan Liang, Fangyijie Wang, Kathleen M. Curran, Gu\'enol\'e Silvestre, Sourav Bhattacharjee, Abraham Campbell
arXiv AI
Aug 20

A Few Cases Are All You Need: An Empirical Study of Annotation-Efficient LoRA Fine-Tuning of MedSAM3

The study investigates how few expert-annotated cases are needed to fine‑tune MedSAM3 for abdominal organ segmentation using Low‑Rank Adaptation (LoRA). With only 10 annotated CT or MRI cases, the LoRA‑adapted models achieve performance comparable to specialist systems that require orders of magnitude more data, including reliable gallbladder segmentation and near‑state‑of‑the‑art results for liver, kidneys, and spleen. The approach also generalizes to cardiac segmentation on the Whole Heart dataset, and training takes only 3–5 hours per organ on a single GPU, roughly twice as fast as nnU-Net.

By Sachin Dudda Nagaraju, Bendik Skarre Abrahamsen, Ashkan Moradi, Mattijs Elschot
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 24

nnFoundation: 3D Foundation Models for Radiology

nnFoundation introduces complementary convolutional and transformer-based 3D foundation models for radiology, trained on 2.1 million CT, MRI, and PET volumes from 125 datasets. The models are evaluated on 108 tasks—including segmentation, detection, classification, report generation, and image retrieval—under domain shift, low-data, and low-compute scenarios, consistently outperforming prior 3D foundation models and training from scratch. Performance varies by task type, with convolutional models excelling at spatially localized tasks and transformer models at global semantic reasoning, and dynamic alignment with dataset characteristics further enhances transferability.

By Constantin Ulrich Harsy, Tassilo Wald, Karol Gotkowski, Yannick Kirchhoff, Marcel Knopp, Maximilian Rokuss, Elisa Stegmeier, Philipp Schader, Dasha Trofimova, Raphael Stock, Kim-Celine Kahl, Stephen Schaumann, Selen Erkan, David Zimmerer, Stefan Denner, Moritz Langenberg, Sebastian Ziegler, Katharina Eckstein, Maximilian Fischer, Jonathan Suprijadi, B\'alint Kov\'acs, Benjamin Hamm, Anand Deshpande, Dimitrios Bounias, Nico Disch, Shuhan Xiao, Jessica K\"achele, Jan Sellner, Rajesh Baidya, Jeremias Traub, Lars Kr\"amer, Maximilian Zenk, Tim R\"adsch, Stefan Dvoretskii, Robin Peretzke, Jonathan Deissler, Alexandra Ertl, Partha Ghosh, Kris Dreher, Stefan Dinkelacker, Annika Reinke, Evangelia Christodoulou, Numan Saeed, Yoland Savriama, Santiago Estrada, David K\"ugler, Laura Alexandra Daza Barragan, Cristina Isabel Gonzalez Osorio, Jan Peeken, Michael Baumgartner, Marvin Teichmann, Guillaume Chabin, Matthias Kirchler, Valentin Koch, for the ALFA study, Markus Hohenhaus, Dimitri Koslov, Nina Decker, Mohammad Yaqub, Arnd Heuser, Martin Reuter, Julia A. Schnabel, Tobias Heimann, Florin Ghesu, Paul Brachmann, Claus P. Heu{\ss}el, Alexander Radbruch, Gianluca Brugnara, Aditya Rastogi, Martha Foltyn-Dumitru, Heinz-Peter Schlemmer, Ignaz Reicht, Julius C. Holzschuh, Michael Bach, Bram Stieltjes, Kai Schlamp, Lena Maier-Hein, Marco Nolden, Ralf Floca, Paul F. J\"ager, Philipp Vollmuth, Fabian Isensee, Klaus H. Maier-Hein
arXiv AI
Sep 16

Beyond In-Distribution Metrics: A Systematic Out-of-Distribution Evaluation of Congenital Heart Disease Segmentation

The paper presents the first systematic evaluation of out‑of‑distribution generalization for congenital heart disease (CHD) segmentation, using the ImageCHD cohort as a held‑out target. It compares several segmentation architectures under different training regimes, showing that in‑distribution performance is a poor predictor of cross‑cohort robustness: nnU‑Net drops from 0.77 to 0.51 Dice, while SwinUNETR maintains higher performance at 0.67 Dice. Limited target‑domain adaptation with only 11 labeled ImageCHD cases boosts all SwinUNETR variants above 0.76 Dice, highlighting the importance of explicit cross‑dataset testing.

By Aniketh Vijesh, Shrisharanyan Vasu, Abhijit Ramesh, Clare Pomeroy-Ward, Harikrishnan Anil Maya, Sarin Xavier, Mahesh Kappanayil, Gilad Gressel
arXiv AI
Sep 1

Extending TotalSegmentator: Predicting Patient and Acquisition Characteristics from CT and MR Images

arXiv:2608.29348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: Patient details and acquisition metadata are important for clinical decisions, image quality control, and automated research pipelines, but...

By Jakob Wasserthal, Joshy Cyriac, Michael Bach, Kimia Mozahheb Yousefi, Minh-Son To, M\'at\'e Sik, C\'edric H\'emon, Thomas Weikert, Martin Segeroth