The paper presents a pragmatic segmentation pipeline for brain metastases in the BraTS 2026 Task 1, using a 5‑fold nnU-Net ResEnc‑L ensemble trained for 1,000 epochs on 1,296 four‑modality cases. A rule‑based post‑processing cascade tuned for the lesion‑wise Dice similarity coefficient (LW‑DSC) improves performance, achieving LW‑DSC scores of 0.733, 0.751, 0.713, and 0.549 on enhancing tumour, tumour core, whole tumour, and resection cavity, respectively. The authors audit each post‑processing stage with a five‑fold out‑of‑fold analysis, confirm two stages as robust, and provide a mechanistic analysis of LW‑DSC, along with thirteen negative results that challenge common intuitions.
arXiv:2607. 22749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tracking residual tumor after surgery is essential for catching recurrence early, but automating post-operative glioma segmentation remains a difficult task.
By Alexandru Cri\c{s}an, Diana Borza
The paper introduces NeuroFusion, an assistive brain‑MRI report generator that surfaces latent tumor signals from a frozen Mistral‑7B backbone. By adding discriminative field‑classifier heads over per‑lesion features, NeuroFusion restores accurate diagnoses (meningioma 0.92, metastasis 0.75) and improves prose quality while reducing latency 5–6×. A controlled negative result shows that overriding the decoder with a learned diagnosis pin harms performance, and grammar‑constrained decoding yields high schema‑validity (92.3%).
By Khawaja Murad ul Hassan, Ruqiyya Adil, Adil Qayyum, Rida Hassan, Asad Mansoor Khan, Muhammad Usman Akram, Mehran Ebrahimi
arXiv:2608. 16377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Instance-level lesion detection has been an increasingly larger focal point in medical image segmentation besides the more standard voxel-level overlap.
By Qinghui Liu, Jon Andr\'e Ottesen, Atle Bj{\o}rnerud, Kyrre Eeg Emblem
arXiv:2606. 19300v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Glioma segmentation in multiparametric MRI is a critical component of treatment planning.
By Xin Ci Wong, Duygu Sarikaya, Kieran Zucker, Marc De Kamps, Nishant Ravikumar
arXiv:2609.15524v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: BraTS-GoAT evaluates tumor segmentation across heterogeneous populations. We trained a conventional 3D nnU-Net on 1,351 labeled cases using five-fold c...
By Tristan Kirscher (ICube, Institut Strauss), Vivian Metzger (Institut Strauss), Philippe Meyer (Institut Strauss, ICube), Xavier Coubez (Institut Strauss, ICube)
arXiv:2609.09477v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Delineating lung tumours on computed tomography (CT) takes a considerable share of the time spent on radiotherapy planning, and a contour proposed by a...
By Yi Luo, Yike Guo, Wenxuan Li, Zongwei Zhou, Rui Zhang, Kai Ding
The study evaluates the reliability of deep‑ensemble uncertainty for brain tumour segmentation on the BraTS‑GoAT dataset. A 5‑fold cross‑validated nnU‑Net baseline and a 3‑seed deep ensemble were compared for calibration and error detection; the ensemble showed modest gains in calibration on in‑distribution data but the single model’s confidence remained flat while accuracy degraded under synthetic corruptions. Disagreement among ensemble members rose sharply with corruption severity, proving to be a more sensitive indicator of acquisition shift than single‑model confidence.
By Riya Deepak Shet, Chenxi Liang, Le Zhang
The paper proposes a lightweight residual refiner that post‑processes the outputs of a two‑model ensemble for brain‑MRI inpainting. By training the refiner with an λ‑weighted combination of α loss and SSIM, the authors achieve a modest but statistically significant SSIM improvement (from 0.8767 to 0.8780 on a held‑out set) without altering MSE. Ablations show that adding a third model or using classical unsharp masking does not yield similar gains, indicating the improvement comes from learned sharpening rather than generic post‑processing.
By Kubilay Ka\u{g}an K\"om\"urc\"u, \.Ilkay \"Oks\"uz
arXiv:2512. 14937v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Gliomas are the most common malignant brain tumors in adults and are among the most lethal.
By Abhijeet Parida, Daniel Capell\'an-Mart\'in, Zhifan Jiang, Nishad Kulkarni, Krithika Iyer, Austin Tapp, Syed Muhammad Anwar, Mar\'ia J. Ledesma-Carbayo, Marius George Linguraru
arXiv:2607. 22727v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical image segmentation models often report high benchmark accuracy under ideal imaging conditions, yet their failures under clinical degradation can be quiet: sensor noise, patient motion, low- resolution acquisition, and contrast variability may all alter model behavior without producing an obvious warning.
By Pranav Kaliaperumal, Manisha Kaliaperumal
CFB-GBM v2.0 is an expanded longitudinal dataset of 264 glioblastoma patients, providing complete Gross Tumour Volume (GTV) delineations across all timepoints and derived volumetric RANO 2.0 response labels. The dataset includes brain masks, pre‑computed radiomic features, and WHO classification guidelines, all validated by radiation oncologists. It is publicly available on TCIA for use in computational methods for treatment response prediction and disease progression modeling.