arXiv AI

Imaging-101: Benchmarking LLM Coding Agents on Scientific Computational Imaging

arXiv:2607. 10789v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computational imaging, which recovers hidden signals from indirect, noisy measurements, underpins quantitative discovery across scientific disciplines, yet building a correct reconstruction pipeline demands deep domain expertise and remains laborious even for domain scientists.

arXiv AI
Jul 9

Does AI Understand Imaging? A Systematic Benchmark of Agentic AI for Computational Imaging Tasks

arXiv:2607. 07189v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) and agentic AI have shown strong performance on semantic visual tasks, but it remains unclear whether they can handle the physics and inverse problems that underlie computational imaging.

By Ethan Chung, Chuanjun Zheng, Jasper Tan, Jingxi Li, Haopeng Zhang, Huaijin Chen
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

Can Coding Agents Build Robust Baselines? A Skill-Based Approach for Automating the Medical Imaging Model-Development Pipeline

The paper introduces an agentic AI Scientist workflow that automates the entire baseline development process for medical imaging by combining literature-guided reasoning, automated code generation, and hypothesis-driven experimentation. Evaluated on four public benchmarks covering segmentation, classification, and detection, the pipeline consistently improves validation performance, achieving competitive leaderboard results such as 6th place on both PUMA tracks and 31st on MILK10k. The approach also shows strong domain generalization on MIDOG25 across scanners, tumor types, and species, demonstrating that a skill-based, literature-guided agentic workflow can reduce engineering effort without task-specific redesign.

By Eugenia Moris, Jos\'e Ignacio Orlando
arXiv AI
Jul 14

Towards Autonomous and Auditable Medical Imaging Model Development

arXiv:2607. 10522v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are beginning to automate machine learning engineering (MLE) by coupling planning, code execution, debugging, and empirical feedback.

By Shengyuan Liu, Jia-Xuan Jiang, Boyun Zheng, Cheng Wang, Zipei Wang, Wentao Pan, Hongtao Wu, Houwen Peng, Yu Gu, Lichao Sun, Yixuan Yuan
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 12

Towards Autonomous and Auditable Medical Imaging Model Development

Large language model (LLM) agents are beginning to automate machine learning engineering (MLE) by coupling planning, code execution, debugging, and empirical feedback. Translating this capability to medical imaging remains difficult because each task imposes modality-specific experimentation and strict requirements for validation protocols and prediction artifacts.

arXiv AI
Jun 2

CVEvolve: Autonomous Algorithm Discovery for Unstructured Scientific Data Processing

arXiv:2605. 11359v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scientific data processing often requires task-specific algorithms or AI models, creating a barrier for domain scientists who need to analyze their data but may not have extensive computing or image-processing expertise.

By Ming Du, Xiangyu Yin, Yanqi Luo, Dishant Beniwal, Songyuan Tang, Hemant Sharma, Mathew J. Cherukara
arXiv AI
Jun 2

CodeCytos: AI-assisted spatial molecular imaging analysis via code-augmented agent action space

arXiv:2606. 00472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conventional tissue image analysis software provides foundational capabilities for cellular analysis, including segmentation, basic morphological feature extraction, and spatial organization analysis.

By Hung Q. Vo, Huy Q. Vo, Son T. Ly, Zhihao Wan, Anh-Vu Nguyen, Hong Zhao, Jianting Sheng, Stephen T. C. Wong, Hien V. Nguyen
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

Rethinking Image Processing for the Age of AI: A Problem-First Framework for Scientific Progress

The paper critiques the prevailing model-first approach in AI-driven image processing, arguing that researchers often prioritize benchmark performance over genuine understanding of real-world imaging problems. It proposes a problem-first framework that separates the physical imaging issue, solution principle, statistical estimator, and computational implementation, and introduces a six-stage workflow to guide research from problem formulation to evaluation. Case studies in super-resolution and low-light enhancement illustrate how benchmark datasets can misrepresent real tasks and emphasize the need for clearer standards on evidence, reproducibility, and uncertainty.

By Guoping Qiu
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
Jun 9

A case study of evaluating AI agents on a neuroscience data-to-discovery pipeline

arXiv:2606. 07718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI tools offer a promising path to automating software development bottlenecks in scientific research pipelines, particularly for stages that take domain experts days to months to build, where scientists care about correctness and robustness, not implementation details.

By Kai A. Horstmann, Ethan Lin, Alice A. Robie, Jennifer J. Sun, Kristin Branson