Microbial density is clinically important for tumor assessment and treatment decision-making, and recent advances in deep learning suggest that it can be non-invasively inferred from multimodal MRI. In this work, MRI-based Microbial Density Stratification (MRI-MDS) is first investigated as a patient-level representation learning task, and Center Heatmap-driven Macro-micro modeling Network (CHM-Net) is introduced for this task.
The paper presents a scale‑aware 3D deep‑learning framework for detecting brain metastases in multimodal MRI. It trains separate 3D U‑Nets on two spatial fields of view (96³ and 64³ voxels) and fuses their probability maps via weighted late fusion. On a 97‑patient cohort, this cross‑FOV fusion improved lesion‑level precision and F1 while markedly reducing false positives compared to individual models, demonstrating that complementary spatial context enhances detection performance.
By Sylvain Jaume, Hongming Wang, Simon K. Warfield
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.
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.
By Weidong Zhang, Yongchan Jung, Shafayat Mowla Anik, Furen Xiao, Vasudevan Janarthanan, Enkhzaya Chuluunbaatar, Byeong Kil Lee, Jeeho Ryoo
arXiv:2606. 24313v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-driven image-to-image synthesis is rapidly advancing, with growing applications in medical imaging.
By Martin Valls (UFR SFA), Pascal Bourdon (UFR SFA), Christine Fernandez-Maloigne (LabCom I3M), Guillaume Herpe (CHU Poitiers -- Radio, DACTIM-MIS), David Helbert (UFR SFA)
arXiv:2607. 19137v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inferring contrast enhancement from one pre-contrast breast MRI slice is underdetermined: post-contrast appearance contains physiological information that is not uniquely encoded in baseline anatomy.
By Andrea Borghesi, Xin Wang, Jonas Teuwen, George Yiasemis
arXiv:2606. 07381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background and Purpose: Automated detection of focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) requires large volumes of voxelwise lesion-delineated MRI data, which are difficult to acquire.
By Prabhjot Kaur, Hakim Ouaalam, Sedat Kandemirli, Sanjay P. Prabhu, Simon K. Warfield
Foundation models such as Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) have transformed natural-image and video segmentation, and recent work has begun adapting them to medical imaging. These adaptations, however, are largely general-purpose models that treat MRI as one modality among many; large-scale, MRI-specific modelling and benchmarking remain limited, even though MRI's low soft-tissue contrast leaves many boundaries effectively invisible on individual slices.
This study introduces a self‑supervised, physics‑guided deep‑learning framework that converts standard clinical T1‑, T2‑, and FLAIR MRIs into quantitative T1, T2, and proton‑density maps. Trained on 4,121 scan sessions from four different 3 T scanners over six years, the method produces maps whose white‑ and gray‑matter values fall within literature ranges and shows minimal variation across scanner hardware and acquisition protocols (coefficients of variation ≤ 1.1 %). Voxel‑wise reproducibility is high, with Pearson and concordance correlation coefficients above 0.82 for T1 and T2 and mean relative differences below 6 % for T2.
By Jelmer van Lune, Stefano Mandija, Oscar van der Heide, Matteo Maspero, Martin B. Schilder, Jan Willem Dankbaar, Cornelis A. T. van den Berg, Alessandro Sbrizzi
Inferring contrast enhancement from one pre-contrast breast MRI slice is underdetermined: post-contrast appearance contains physiological information that is not uniquely encoded in baseline anatomy. Optimizing only paired pixel fidelity can suppress uncertain lesion enhancement, whereas adversarial or stochastic generative objectives can favor realistic post-contrast appearance without guaranteeing patient-specific lesion fidelity.
arXiv:2606. 11107v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clinicians diagnose brain tumors by synthesizing patient symptoms, medical history, and quantitative imaging data from modalities such as MRI and CT scans into a unified clinical judgement.
By Wajih ul Islam, Muhammad Yaqoob, Javed Ali Khan, Volker Steuber
arXiv:2606. 30951v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Micro-ultrasound ($\mu$US) is a new, emerging, and promising imaging modality for prostate cancer (PCa) detection, but accurate identification of suspicious tissue remains highly dependent on clinical experience, leading to substantial inter-observer variability.
By Mohammad Mahdi Abootorabi, Sina Namazi, Armin Saadat, Lyuyang Wang, Obed Dzikunu, Paul F. R. Wilson, Zhuoxin Guo, Brian Wodlinger, Parvin Mousavi, Purang Abolmaesumi