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A Comprehensive Survey of Medical Image Segmentation: Challenges, Benchmarks, and Beyond

arXiv:2606. 16153v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical image segmentation plays a critical role in clinical diagnostics, treatment planning, disease monitoring, and neurological disorder identification.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

Lightweight Vision Transformer-Based U-Net for Brain Tumor Segmentation from MRI

The paper introduces a lightweight Vision Transformer‑based U‑Net for brain tumor segmentation from MRI, combining U‑Net’s hierarchical feature extraction with a compact ViT bottleneck to capture both local and global context. With only 2.6 million trainable parameters, the model achieves a mean Intersection over Union of 0.8100 and a Dice score of 0.8446 on the TCGA LGG dataset, surpassing the baseline U‑Net by 3.75% and 3.15% respectively. Extensive quantitative and qualitative analyses, including confusion matrices, precision‑recall curves, and tumor size dependency studies, demonstrate the method’s effectiveness and robustness.

By Sheekar Banerjee, Md. Srabon Chowdhury, Md. Mahbub Hasan Akash, Ishtiak Al Mamoon
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 21

FermatSyn: SAM2-Enhanced Bidirectional Mamba with Isotropic Spiral Scanning for Multi-Modal Medical Image Synthesis

arXiv:2505. 07687v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-modal medical image synthesis is pivotal for alleviating clinical data scarcity, yet existing methods fail to reconcile global anatomical consistency with high-fidelity local detail.

By Feng Yuan, Yifan Gao, Haoyue Li, Xin Gao
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

Medical Image Segmentation based on Deep Active Contour and Mean Curvature Loss Function

The paper introduces a Deep Active Contour and Mean Curvature (DACMC) loss function for medical image segmentation. By incorporating mean curvature as a geometric constraint and approximating it with a convolution kernel, the method aims to improve the geometric characterization of segmented regions. Experiments on liver and spleen datasets show that DACMC achieves new state‑of‑the‑art performance across several segmentation benchmarks.

By Xiao-qiang Zhai, Zhi-feng Pang, Peng Zheng, Ze-wen Li, Yan-zhe Hou