The paper presents a modality‑routed 3D cardiac segmentation pipeline that combines TotalSegmentator‑initialized nnU‑Netv2 models with site‑characterized, label‑preserving appearance augmentation. By analyzing measurable image properties across sites, the authors design a bias‑field plus Bezier augmentation strategy that smooths spatial intensity perturbations and remaps intensities nonlinearly, followed by class‑wise largest‑connected‑component cleanup. On held‑out validation splits, this approach raises CT mean Dice from 0.8350 to 0.9135 and MRI mean Dice from 0.7695 to 0.7830 while reducing HD95, demonstrating improved cross‑site robustness in limited‑data whole‑heart segmentation.
By Tanish Mudaliar, Justin Li, Daniel Lin, Julianna Vo, Kaitao Liao, Xin Wang, Shu Hu
Whole-heart segmentation from CT and MRI is essential for quantitative cardiac image analysis, but remains challenging under multi-center and multi-modality distribution shift. In the CARE whole-heart...
arXiv:2607. 11287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Comprehensive quantification of cardiac structures from computed tomography (CT) remains limited not by data availability but by the scalability of measurements, which makes routine use impractical.
By Pooya Mohammadi Kazaj, Leo Fridolin Weber, Wen Xie, Seyed Amir Ahmad Safavi-Naini, Anselm Stark, Giovanni Baj, Ali Mokhtari, Toshiya Yoshida, Christoph Ryffel, Taishi Okuno, Yoshihiro Akashi, Ronny R. Buechel, Thomas Pilgrim, Waldo Valenzuela, George C. M. Siontis, Xiaowei Xu, Moritz Hundertmark, Stephan Windecker, Christoph Grani, Isaac Shiri
arXiv:2605. 16427v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep learning models for echocardiography segmentation often struggle to generalise across institutions, scanners, and patient populations, where collecting large, consistently annotated datasets is infeasible.
By Soroush Elyasi, Sara Adibzadeh, Nasim Dadashi Serej, Massoud Zolgharni
CMRVision is a cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) foundation model trained with DINOv3-style self‑supervised learning on 36 million multi‑center, multi‑sequence CMR images. It outperforms prior natural‑image, medical‑image, supervised, and CMR baselines on multi‑task segmentation (cine, LGE, mapping) and cine view classification, achieving Dice scores of 0.940–0.967 for LV and 0.855–0.905 for myocardium, and a zero‑shot Dice of 0.692 on unseen LGE long‑axis views. The model demonstrates robust cross‑view generalization and highest average accuracy (0.906) for cine view classification.
By Athira J. Jacob, Puneet Sharma, Daniel Rueckert
The study investigates how few expert-annotated cases are needed to fine‑tune MedSAM3 for abdominal organ segmentation using Low‑Rank Adaptation (LoRA). With only 10 annotated CT or MRI cases, the LoRA‑adapted models achieve performance comparable to specialist systems that require orders of magnitude more data, including reliable gallbladder segmentation and near‑state‑of‑the‑art results for liver, kidneys, and spleen. The approach also generalizes to cardiac segmentation on the Whole Heart dataset, and training takes only 3–5 hours per organ on a single GPU, roughly twice as fast as nnU-Net.
By Sachin Dudda Nagaraju, Bendik Skarre Abrahamsen, Ashkan Moradi, Mattijs Elschot
arXiv:2608.30371v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Automatic cardiac image segmentation is pivotal for diagnosing and treating cardiac diseases. In this work, we introduce MCSeg, a volumetric transforme...
By Zhiyu Ye, Hairong Zheng, Tong Zhang
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...
By Tal Grossman, Noa Cahan, Hayit Greenspan
arXiv:2608.29246v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is the modality of choice to assess myocardial infarction (MI) lesions. Now...
By Olivier Bernard, William A. Romero R., Cyprien Bouton, Celia Goujat, Hang Jung Ling, Pierre-Marc Jodoin, Fumin Guo, Calder Sheagren, Graham Wright, Abdul Qayyum, Moona Mazher, Steven A. Niederer, Hairui Wang, Xiaomei Wu, Franz Thaler, Gernot Plank, Martin Urschler, Ricardo M. Rosales, Esther Pueyo, Nicolas Duchateau, Frederic Cervenansky, Patrick Clarysse, Loic Belle, Thomas Bochaton, Nathan Mewton, Magalie Viallon, Pierre Croisille
Developing robust artificial intelligence models for 4D (3D + time) medical imaging is constrained by limited annotated data, inter-device domain shifts, and privacy restrictions. To address this, we propose a 4D controllable generative framework for anatomically consistent data augmentation.
arXiv:2606. 23879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility and challenges of heart chamber segmentation from non-contrast CT scans using contrastive unpaired image translation and deep learning-based segmentation.
By Jing Wang, Tong Yu, Hao-En Lu, Zixue Zeng, Joseph K. Leader, Xin Meng, Jianbing Zhu, Jiantao Pu
arXiv:2606. 26764v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Developing robust artificial intelligence models for 4D (3D + time) medical imaging is constrained by limited annotated data, inter-device domain shifts, and privacy restrictions.
By Yiheng Cao, Gustavo Andrade-Miranda, Jiatian Zhang, Lingxiao Zhao, Xin Gao