arXiv:2608. 15537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate boundary delineation remains a persistent challenge in dermoscopic image segmentation because of blurred lesion margins, heterogeneous textures, and complex background artifacts.
By Wang Jiangtao, Nur Intan Raihana Ruhaiyem, Fu Panpan, Yang Yu, Huang Yan
arXiv:2606. 07633v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate classification of nuclei subtypes in histopathology images is critical for downstream tasks including tumor grading, immune infiltrate quantification, and prognosis prediction.
By Spoorthi M, Suja Palaniswamy
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
InstEditSeg is a generative framework that treats medical segmentation as an instruction-driven image editing task. Instead of producing binary masks, it renders a color-coded overlay on the original image guided by textual instructions, leveraging latent diffusion models to align with natural image distributions and reduce domain gaps. The method incorporates a DINOv3 visual encoder and a multi-scale feature pyramid fused into the diffusion U‑Net, and uses a dual‑branch classifier‑free guidance strategy to lower inference cost, achieving competitive accuracy on polyp and skin lesion datasets while improving cross‑domain generalization and multi‑lesion segmentation.
By Ziquan Liu, Zhewei Zhu, Xuyang Shi
MoSSGate is a plug‑and‑play module for U‑Net that improves skin lesion segmentation by combining boundary‑aware spatial gating, an external memory modulator, and parallel 2D state‑space modeling for efficient global context aggregation. The design limits long‑range propagation to informative regions, adapts dynamically to each sample, and preserves sharp lesion boundaries while keeping computational cost low. Experiments on ISIC 2017 and 2018 show state‑of‑the‑art accuracy (86.3%/85.9% mIoU, 92.6%/90.6% Dice) with fewer FLOPs than most CNN baselines.
By Anum Awan, Mahnoor Buriro, Muhammad Younas Khan, Md Imam Ahasan
The paper presents a two‑pipeline framework for retinal fundus analysis that combines four‑class disease classification with vessel segmentation. It fine‑tunes eight ImageNet‑pretrained CNNs on the FIVES dataset, applies five gradient‑based explanation methods to assess model interpretability, and benchmarks ten U‑Net variants—including transformer‑based and attention‑enhanced architectures—on the FIVES and DRIVE datasets. The best classification results come from ResNet101 (94.17% accuracy), while the strongest segmentation performance is achieved by Attention U‑Net with a ResNet101V2 backbone, improving DRIVE IoU from 60.80% to 64.83%.
By Fatema Tuj Johora Faria, Mukaffi Bin Moin, Pronay Debnath, Asif Iftekher Fahim, Faisal Muhammad Shah
arXiv:2608. 15915v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, while histopathological diagnosis is often affected by inter-observer variability and the substantial workload associated with manual slide examination.
By Hadi Hasan, Safaa Salman, Lama Sleem, Ralph Mouawad, Ali Chehab
arXiv:2607. 10188v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Breast cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed malignancy among women worldwide, yet accurate detection and characterization of breast masses in mammography remain challenging due to subtle intensity variations, heterogeneous tissue densities, and indistinct lesion boundaries that complicate radiological interpretation.
By Abu Fatema Mohammad Abdun Noor, Md Imam Ahasan, Md Samiul Ahasan, Kah Ong Michael Goh, S M Hasan Mahmud, Raihana Zannat
arXiv:2606. 26712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Skin lesion segmentation is a key task in computer-aided dermatological diagnosis, where accuracy directly impacts downstream analysis and disease classification.
By Jingjun Gu, Chaojie Shen, Yifeng Cao, Wei Zhang, Yiliu Li, Aobo Fan
arXiv:2607. 22139v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate pixel-level classification of coronary angiograms is critical for cardiovascular disease assessment, yet the field lacks standardized evaluation protocols.
By Dominik Bernard Lau, Hubert Malinowski, Jerzy Szyjut, Adam Brzeski, Tomasz Dziubich, Rados{\l}aw Targo\'nski, Tomasz Figatowski, Natalia Zieli\'nska
MDSkin-Net is a multi‑task skin lesion analysis framework that integrates Pattern Analysis priors into a hybrid CNN‑Transformer architecture. It introduces a Pattern Analysis‑Guided Attention Module (PAGAM) with improved Efficient Channel Attention, Multi‑Scale Spatial Attention, and Biased Asymmetry Attention, along with a multi‑scale spatial alignment regularization that uses segmentation masks as soft supervision. Trained only on the ISIC 2017 training split, the model achieves high segmentation and classification performance on multiple datasets, demonstrating strong zero‑shot generalization across different cohorts.
By Yijian Li, Saad Bedros, Paul Bigliardi, Mei Bigliardi Qi, Vassilios Morellas, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
The study compares five pre‑trained convolutional neural networks—ResNet50, VGG16, VGG19, MobileNet, and InceptionV3—for melanoma detection using dermatoscopic and histopathological image datasets. Accuracy varied across models and modalities, with ResNet50 achieving the highest scores (84% on HAM10000 and 83% on CR‑AI4SkIN) and InceptionV3 the lowest (71% on ISIC 2018). The results show that a model’s performance on dermatoscopic images does not necessarily predict its performance on histopathological images.
By Wagner Moreno Schmitz, Marco Antonio de Castro Barbosa, Thiago Magalh\~aes Amaral, Dalcimar Casanova, Jefferson Tales Oliva