Vascular segmentation is a standard procedure for clinical diagnosis, yet the specific visual features determining model decisions remain poorly understood. This paper investigates the visual cues Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) use to segment blood vessels across two distinct imaging domains: fluorescence microscopy and retinal fundus photography.
arXiv:2406. 13128v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Due to the intricate structure of vascular trees, minor segmentation errors can significantly alter connectivity patterns and increase variability in extracted morphological properties.
By Jo\~ao Pedro Parella, Matheus Viana da Silva, Cesar Henrique Comin
arXiv:2607. 22139v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate pixel-level classification of coronary angiograms is critical for cardiovascular disease assessment, yet the field lacks standardized evaluation protocols.
By Dominik Bernard Lau, Hubert Malinowski, Jerzy Szyjut, Adam Brzeski, Tomasz Dziubich, Rados{\l}aw Targo\'nski, Tomasz Figatowski, Natalia Zieli\'nska
arXiv:2607. 16065v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retinal layer segmentation in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a fundamental step for extracting quantitative biomarkers of retinal structure.
By Iker Moran-Cavero, Monica Hernandez, Elvira Mayordomo, Naiara Artiaga, Beatriz Pardi\~nas, Beatriz Cordon, Elena Garcia-Martin
Accurate coronary Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) vessel segmentation is essential for computer-aided diagnosis and treatment planning of coronary artery disease (CAD). However, thin low-contrast vessels, background interference, and severe vessel-background class imbalance make reliable segmentation of weak distal branches and vessel boundaries challenging.
arXiv:2606. 16234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA) is critical for assessing retinal vascular abnormalities, but its acquisition is invasive and not always feasible.
By Tengfei Ma, Ruiqi Wu, Chenran Zhang, Ye Geng, Na Su, Xiangyuan Duanmu, Tao Zhou, Yi Zhou, Wen Fan
arXiv:2603. 13377v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Representation learning has driven major advances in natural image analysis by enabling models to acquire high-level semantic features.
By Ivan Svatko, Maxime Sanchez, Ihab Bendidi, Gilles Cottrell, Auguste Genovesio
Whole slide images (WSIs) in digital histopathology are acquired at discrete magnification levels encoding complementary diagnostic information from global tissue architecture to fine-grained cellular morphology. Yet, deep learning models remain sensitive to scale variation.
arXiv:2607. 24453v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning from minimal human supervision is a long-standing goal in medical image analysis, where dense expert annotations are costly.
By Mingzhi Xu, Yizhe Zhang
arXiv:2607. 05317v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated detection of intracranial aneurysms (IAs) from CT angiography (CTA) is severely hindered by high false-positive rates.
By Akshay Gokhale (Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Mumbai), Mansi Dhamne (Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Mumbai)
arXiv:2603. 18846v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Foundation models are used to extract transferable representations from large amounts of unlabeled data, typically via self-supervised learning (SSL).
By Samuel Ofosu Mensah, Camila Roa, Kerol Djoumessi, Philipp Berens
arXiv:2607. 13826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate determination of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) resectability relies on evaluating how the tumor interacts with major peripancreatic vessels on CT imaging, yet expert assessment often shows substantial variability.
By Vincent Ochs, Christoph Kuemmerli, Florentin Bieder, Julia Wolleb, Joel L. Lavanchy, Julia Ruppel, Jan Liechti, Stephanie Taha-Mehlitz, Christian Andreas Nebiker, Beat Mueller, Giuseppe Kito Fusai, Joerg-Matthias Pollok, Anas Taha, Philippe C. Cattin, Sebastian Staubli