arXiv:2608.30844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Interactive lesion segmentation in whole-body PET/CT requires a model to provide a strong initial prediction while also responding efficiently to spa...
arXiv:2602.14512v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autoregressive pretraining has been key to the scalability of large language models, yet medical generative foundation models remain predominantly...
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.
arXiv:2609.26756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: X-ray is medicine's most widely used imaging modality, yet remains among its least quantitative. Unlike volumetric modalities like CT or MRI, X-ray col...
arXiv:2610.09253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconstructing 3D Computed Tomography (CT) images from a few X-ray projections is a highly ill-posed inverse problem due to the loss of volumetric info...
arXiv:2610.06938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical image segmentation remains fragmented along two axes: segmentation paradigms and data dimensionality. Existing methods are typically developed...
arXiv:2608.24364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised pretraining enables transferable representations for medical imaging, yet most CT encoders remain biased toward coarse semantic underst...
arXiv:2605. 25402v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-supervised pre-training paradigm has gained increasing prominence for learning transferable representations in medical imaging, yet existing methods for ultrasound (US) images operate at the image or frame level, overlooking the anatomical context for clinical-aligned representation learning.
DALE-CT introduces depth‑aware 2D slice encoders that learn an anatomical world model of chest CT scans without 3D or positional supervision. By sampling self‑supervised views across a physical $z$‑axis slab, the encoder captures how anatomy changes between neighboring slices, enabling it to recover slice ordering and distinguish slices by anatomy alone. The model, trained on a large 287k‑scan corpus, achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on CT‑RATE and is released with full code and evaluation tools.
arXiv:2608.22532v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Domain shift across imaging modalities and acquisition sites remains a significant barrier to the clinical deployment of segmentation models. Source-fr...
The study explores how adding anatomical priors and active learning can improve the accuracy of deep learning models for segmenting the Clinical Target Volume (CTV) in gastric cancer radiotherapy. Using 100 retrospective CT scans, an nnU‑Net model trained on 10 expert‑contoured cases was enhanced with voxel‑wise anatomical prior maps and iterative active learning over four rounds. The combined approach raised the mean Dice Similarity Coefficient from 0.84 to 0.87, demonstrating that both techniques individually and together improve segmentation performance and generalizability.
The paper investigates whether uncertainty can act as a proxy for semantic correctness in diffusion-based medical image synthesis, specifically for generating contrast‑enhanced CT (CECT) from non‑contrast CT (NCCT). Using the AortaDiff framework, which produces both CECT images and lumen segmentations, the authors compare six uncertainty estimation methods across pixel, region, and image levels, including their ability to detect out‑of‑distribution cases. They find that uncertainty is informative at all spatial scales, remains useful under distribution shift, and that MCDropout, in particular, offers reliable quality filtering with no extra training cost.