The paper introduces MSM‑Seg, a dual‑memory segmentation framework for 3D multi‑modal brain tumor segmentation. It combines a modality‑and‑slice memory attention module to capture cross‑modal and spatial‑slice dependencies, a multi‑scale category‑agnostic prompt encoder for whole‑tumor guidance, and a modality‑adaptive fusion decoder to integrate complementary decoding information. Experiments on various MRI datasets show that MSM‑Seg surpasses state‑of‑the‑art methods for metastases and glioma tumor segmentation.
By Yuxiang Luo, Qing Xu, Hai Huang, Yuqi Ouyang, Xiangjian He, Zhen Chen, Wenting Duan, Jiebo Luo
The paper introduces a method for generalizable brain tumor segmentation in the BraTS 2026 Challenge. It builds on the nnU-Net framework with a large residual encoder, adding semi‑supervised learning via pseudo‑labels and a tumor‑aware deformable augmentation that locally deforms lesions while preserving surrounding anatomy. The approach improves Dice and NSD scores across all tumor regions compared to labeled‑only baselines, demonstrating the complementary benefits of self‑training and the proposed augmentation.
By Henrique Zan Grande, Jeovane Honorio Alves, Rayson Laroca, Andre Gustavo Hochuli
arXiv:2608. 20229v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Anatomically plausible segmentation remains challenging because of low contrast, ambiguous boundaries, and modality-specific artifacts.
By Mosharof Hossain, Md Rabiul Islam, Limon Halder, Erchin Serpedin, Md Kamrul Hasan
NeuroTS-Net is a 3‑D encoder‑decoder CNN designed for multi‑class semantic segmentation of pediatric brain tumors in multi‑modal MRI. It uses a dual‑scale raw‑detail stream, adaptive low‑resolution context selection, and detail‑preserving multipath downsampling to maintain fine intensity and boundary information while modeling broader tumor context. Trained on the BraTS 2026 pediatric dataset, it outperformed nnU‑Net and MedNeXt, achieving Dice scores of 0.938/0.937 on internal validation and 0.927/0.926 on the official challenge set.
By Darius Peteleaza, Razvan-Gabriel Dumitru, Bogdan Neamtu, Arpad Gellert, Mariana Sandu, Claudiu Matei
The study evaluates four deep‑learning segmentation architectures—Unet, PSPNet, Linknet, and FPN—paired with six pre‑trained encoders to predict COVID‑19 lesions in CT images. Experiments on three COVID‑19 CT datasets show high accuracy, achieving a maximum binary F1‑score of 98% and multi‑class F1‑scores of 75% and 77%. The work aims to provide a standardized performance benchmark for medical image segmentation and a reference for other imaging scenarios.
By Sarmad Khan, Basim Azam, Arslan Shaukat
arXiv:2610.00279v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The segmentation of anatomical structures in medical images and particularly in MRI scans, is essential for clinical diagnosis and monitoring disease p...
By Eirini Cholopoulou, Dimitrios E. Diamantis, Dimitris K. Iakovidis
VGG16-MCA UNet is a hybrid neural network that combines an ImageNet‑pretrained VGG16 encoder with a decoder enhanced by a Multi‑Channel Attention module, trained using Focal Tversky loss to address class imbalance. The model was evaluated as a 2‑D, FLAIR‑only whole‑tumor segmenter on BraTS 2020 and LGG datasets, achieving a pixel‑level Dice of 95.10 % on BraTS and 88.32 % on LGG in a 5‑fold cross‑validation setting. Inference time is 66.32 ms per 256×256 slice on a single RTX 2060, only slightly slower than a VGG16‑UNet without attention.
whyItMatters":"The study provides a reproducible 2‑D FLAIR baseline for whole‑tumor segmentation, demonstrating high Dice scores and detailed reporting of training and evaluation protocols."
By Shubham Gajjar, Deep Joshi, Avi Poptani, Vishal Barot
arXiv:2510.14383v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Accurate brain tumor segmentation is significant for clinical diagnosis and treatment but remains challenging due to tumor heterogeneity. Mamba-bas...
By Danish Ali, Ajmal Mian, Naveed Akhtar, Ghulam Mubashar Hassan
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:2609.15888v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Deep networks trained on structural MRI for Alzheimer's disease (AD) staging often reach reasonable accuracy while attending to anatomically irreleva...
By Paul-Gabriel Nicolae, Irina Georgiana Mocanu
The paper introduces Segment Anything Small (SAS), a data‑augmentation method that improves deep‑learning segmentation of small anatomical structures in ultrasound images. SAS uses two transformations: resizing and embedding organ thumbnails into a black background to vary organ scale, and adding noise to regions of interest to mimic tissue texture variability. Experiments on one internal and five external datasets show Dice score gains up to 0.35, with an average improvement of 0.16, and demonstrate that SAS enhances model robustness and generalizability without adding hallucinations or artifacts.
By Danielle L. Ferreira, Ahana Gangopadhyay, Hsi-Ming Chang, Ravi Soni, Gopal Avinash
arXiv:2609.31573v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Biomedical image segmentation is central to medical image analysis, but practical deployment often faces limited annotations, memory constraints, and c...
By Ziyao Shang, Pouya Sadeghi, Letian Jiang, Alexander Wong, Sirisha Rambhatla