arXiv Machine Learning

A multi-architecture study of specificity refinement and false-positive mechanism analysis in prostate MRI

arXiv:2606. 29977v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Objectives: To characterize residual false positives in prostate MRI detection, and to evaluate a lightweight post-hoc refinement head for case-level specificity.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

CHIMERA Challenge: Biochemical Recurrence Prediction in Prostate Cancer Patients using multimodal datasets

arXiv:2608.21497v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Biochemical recurrence (BCR), defined as any detectable prostate-specific antigen level after prostatectomy with confirmatory elevation, is widely us...

By Robert N. Spaans, Catherine Chia, Tongjie Wang, Adam Kowalewski, Parandzem Khachatryan, Domingos Oliveira, Khrystyna Faryna, Jean-Paul A. van Basten, Geert Litjens, Nadieh Khalili
arXiv AI
Sep 25

CATCH: Counterfactual Anatomical Tissue Inpainting with Conditional Haar Diffusion

CATCH is a conditional 3D diffusion model operating in an invertible Haar-wavelet domain designed to inpaint masked regions in T1‑weighted brain MRI with plausible, tumor‑free tissue while preserving observed anatomy. The model’s denoiser uses noisy target coefficients, voided‑image coefficients, and a signed mask, guided by tumor‑excluded wavelet reconstruction and a hole‑focused loss, and hard compositing ensures observed voxels remain unchanged. Experiments on BraTS data show that a weighted mixture of tumor‑derived, irregular‑blob, and ellipsoidal masks yields the best performance, achieving higher SSIM, PSNR, and lower MSE compared to fixed or random augmentation baselines.

By Simon Winther Albertsen, Hjalte Bjoernstrup, Said Djafar Said, Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi
arXiv Computer Vision
2d ago

Image-Domain Poisson-Perturbation Robustness of NCCT Slice Classification

The study investigates how image‑domain Poisson perturbations affect the classification of ischemic core/penumbra in non‑contrast CT slices. Using a CPAISD cohort, the authors compared direct ResNet‑18 classification with a denoising‑then‑classifying pipeline and found that denoising generally reduced performance. A prospective experiment with joint denoising‑classification models showed no statistically significant advantage over direct noisy classification, indicating limited robustness to Poisson noise.

By Rhea Ghosal, Ronok Ghosal, Eileen Lou
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

The Diagnosis a Reporter Leaves Unspoken: Surfacing Frozen Tumor Features for Brain-Tumor MRI Reporting

The paper introduces NeuroFusion, an assistive brain‑MRI report generator that surfaces latent tumor signals from a frozen Mistral‑7B backbone. By adding discriminative field‑classifier heads over per‑lesion features, NeuroFusion restores accurate diagnoses (meningioma 0.92, metastasis 0.75) and improves prose quality while reducing latency 5–6×. A controlled negative result shows that overriding the decoder with a learned diagnosis pin harms performance, and grammar‑constrained decoding yields high schema‑validity (92.3%).

By Khawaja Murad ul Hassan, Ruqiyya Adil, Adil Qayyum, Rida Hassan, Asad Mansoor Khan, Muhammad Usman Akram, Mehran Ebrahimi