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
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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:2605.05522v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Although self-supervised pretraining is expected to learn broadly transferable representations, its effectiveness across imaging modalities s...
By Aneesh Rangnekar, Joao Miranda, Natally Horvat, Stephanie Chahwan, Samir Alrayess, Aditya Apte, Aditi Iyer, Eve LoCastro, Revathi Ravella, Marc J Gollub, Iva Petkovska, Jesse Joshua Smith, Paul Romesser, Julio Garcia-Aguilar, Harini Veeraraghavan, Joseph O Deasy
arXiv:2609.19042v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: In medical imaging, developing robust deep learning models requires data from various domains. However, regulatory policies protecting patient privac...
By Karan R. Bagri, Tarun K. Garg, Vaanathi Sundaresan
arXiv:2607. 15396v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-contrast 3D MRI segmentation can be computationally demanding when all available sequences are used.
By Agamdeep Chopra, Mehmet Kurt
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
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 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:2506.12006v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: The cross-Modality Domain Adaptation (crossMoDA) challenge series, initiated in 2021 in conjunction with the International Conference on Medi...
By Navodini Wijethilake, Reuben Dorent, Marina Ivory, Aaron Kujawa, Stefan Cornelissen, Patrick Langenhuizen, Mohamed Okasha, Anna Oviedova, Hexin Dong, Bogyeong Kang, Guillaume Sall\'e, Luyi Han, Ziyuan Zhao, Han Liu, Yubo Fan, Tao Yang, Shahad Hardan, Hussain Alasmawi, Santosh Sanjeev, Yuzhou Zhuang, Satoshi Kondo, Maria Baldeon Calisto, Shaikh Muhammad Uzair Noman, Cancan Chen, Ipek Oguz, Rongguo Zhang, Mina Rezaei, Susana K. Lai-Yuen, Satoshi Kasai, Yunzhi Huang, Chih-Cheng Hung, Mohammad Yaqub, Lisheng Wang, Benoit M. Dawant, Cuntai Guan, Ritse Mann, Vincent Jaouen, Tae-Eui Kam, Li Zhang, Jonathan Shapey, Tom Vercauteren
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.
By Yizhou Wu, Shansong Wang, Yuheng Li, Mojtaba Safari, Mingzhe Hu, Chih-Wei Chang, Harini Veeraraghavan, Xiaofeng Yang
arXiv:2607. 18678v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Breast MRI is highly sensitive for detecting breast tumors, but exams contain many slices and require substantial reading time.
By Mohammad Ali Dadrast, Hamid Usefi
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