The paper introduces Skeletal Prototypes on Iterative Nerve Expansions (SPINE), a prototype reduction method that represents each class as an embedded 1‑complex rather than a finite set of points. SPINE constructs its initial edge set from a class‑conditional Mapper graph, then refines vertex positions under a classification objective, allowing observations to be assigned to the nearest complex. Evaluated on seventeen benchmark datasets with stratified 10‑fold cross‑validation, SPINE achieves the highest mean accuracy and best average rank among seven competing methods, showing significant improvements over five of them and competitive performance across varying prototype budgets.
Automated assessment of degenerative pathology in the lumbar spine on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) requires access to large-scale datasets of expert-annotated radiological gradings. In contrast, segmentation pseudo-labels can be generated by automated tools at negligible radiologist cost.
arXiv:2608.21482v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Multimodal fracture classifiers may benefit from patient and anatomical metadata, but they can also become brittle when contextual inform...
arXiv:2601. 15235v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cervical spine fractures require rapid and accurate diagnosis, yet automatic CT interpretation remains challenging as subtle injuries must be assessed across large 3D volumes.
OpenVeinNet is a finger vein verification framework that tackles open-set scenarios by combining Dynamic Snake Convolution, which extracts local curvilinear vein structures through adaptive sampling, with a graph convolutional backbone that models long-range topological relationships between vein regions. The model introduces a Centroid Angular Hybrid Loss to promote intra-class compactness and inter-class angular separation in the embedding space. Experiments on five public datasets under leave-one-dataset-out training demonstrate strong cross-dataset generalisation, low equal error rates, and competitive true accept rates at fixed false accept rates.
arXiv:2603. 19100v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) enables non-invasive monitoring of brain activity across clinical and neurotechnology applications, yet building foundation models for EEG remains challenging due to differing electrode topologies and computational scalability, as Transformer architectures incur quadratic sequence complexity.
arXiv:2609.24937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bone overlap can obscure abnormalities in chest radiographs, while scarce paired training data limit supervised bone suppression. We address this chall...
arXiv:2604. 23435v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Grading knee osteoarthritis (KOA) on plain radiographs is poorly reproducible across readers.
arXiv:2609.09801v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Malocclusion skeletal grading is a fundamental task in orthodontics, critical for diagnosis and treatment planning. Traditionally, cone-beam computed...
arXiv:2604. 05635v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Numerical preprocessing remains a critical component of tabular deep learning, as the representation of continuous features can strongly affect downstream performance.
The paper investigates fiber bundle segmentation in macaque tracer histology, comparing traditional BCE‑Dice loss with topology‑aware losses such as clDice, Betti matching, and Topograph using a frozen DINOv3 backbone. While BCE‑Dice yields the highest Dice score, Topograph achieves comparable Dice with lower topological error and fewer false positives. The authors also introduce Excess32, a spatial diagnostic that reveals oversegmentation issues not captured by conventional detection metrics, demonstrating that detection metrics alone are insufficient for evaluating segmentation quality.
arXiv:2608. 11288v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Assessing catheter and tube placement on chest X-rays is safety-critical yet tedious and error-prone.
Finger vein verification is a promising biometric modality for secure authentication because vascular patterns are internal, difficult to observe externally, and relatively resistant to presentation a...