The paper introduces AURA, an nnU-Net-based asymmetric supervision strategy for segmenting ultra‑low‑field (0.064 T) pediatric brain MRI. It treats high‑field‑derived (HF) and low‑field‑edited (LF) annotations as distinct observations, anchoring training to the HF mask while gating LF contributions through a reliability mechanism. On a 16‑case development split, AURA achieved Dice scores comparable to HF‑only training and improved boundary metrics, demonstrating its potential for ULF MRI segmentation.
arXiv:2605.24625v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Ultra-low-field (ULF) MRI offers portable and accessible neuroimaging but suffers from reduced signal-to-noise ratio and limited spatial resolution...
arXiv:2609. 20562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated quality assessment, enhancement, and segmentation of multiple structures in $0.
arXiv:2608. 19788v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Trustworthy multimodal fusion in clinical settings requires handling incomplete and heterogeneous modality subsets across institutions, where privacy constraints prohibit centralized data sharing.
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...
arXiv:2604. 27277v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Brain MRI underpins a wide range of neuroscientific and clinical applications, yet most learning-based methods remain task-specific and require substantial labeled data.
arXiv:2607. 17782v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models pretrained using self-supervised learning have transformed computer vision by learning transferable representations from large-scale unlabeled data.
The paper presents LoFi RADIO, a distilled ViT-S backbone designed for grading the severity of seven common artifacts in ultra‑low‑field neonatal brain MRI. It tackles the LISA 2026 Task 1a challenge by evaluating various backbones paired with a classification MLP, finding no single backbone dominates across all artifacts. The authors improve performance by routing complementary foundation model teachers through a per‑artifact gate and by distilling these teachers into the single in‑domain student, achieving comparable or better weighted composite scores without the need for multiple large models at inference.
arXiv:2609.37387v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enlarged perivascular spaces (PVS) visible in brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are increasingly thought to be linked to poor brain health. PVS...
The paper investigates combining a domain‑specific self‑supervised task—voxel‑level brain age prediction—with a general task—image inpainting—to pretrain models for brain MRI segmentation. A multitask pretraining framework jointly optimizes both objectives, yielding representations that outperform single‑task pretraining and training from scratch on three segmentation benchmarks (multiple sclerosis lesions, ischemic stroke lesions, and cortical structures). The study demonstrates that integrating domain‑specific and general self‑supervised tasks benefits the development of generalizable neuroimaging foundation models.
BrainFedFM is a structural brain MRI foundation model that was federatively pretrained on 164,707 3‑D scans from 42 sites using a dual‑priority approach that emphasizes informative anatomical regions locally and prioritizes site contributions globally. The model outperformed seven baseline models—including four centralized foundation models—across 20 downstream tasks (classification, regression, segmentation), achieving a mean rank of 1.68 and a 50% performance gain, especially in classification and regression and among underrepresented populations. These results demonstrate the model’s generalizability and show that federated pretraining can effectively develop neuroimaging foundation models without pooling raw images.
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.
arXiv:2609.00960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Magnetic resonance images of the same subject look markedly different across field strengths, which complicates the comparison and pooling of data acro...