SonoCLIP: Mask-Guided Region-Aware Vision-Language Pretraining for Fetal Ultrasound Analysis
arXiv:2606. 29586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language foundation models have shown strong potential in medical image analysis.
Maternal-fetal US is the primary imaging modality for monitoring fetal development, yet accurate automated segmentation remains challenging due to the scarcity of pixel-level annotations. To address this issue, we propose DACL, a semi-supervised framework for robust fetal US image segmentation.
arXiv:2606. 29586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language foundation models have shown strong potential in medical image analysis.
arXiv:2607. 16705v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is an effective solution for medical image segmentation with limited annotations.
arXiv:2606. 16868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While federated learning (FL) enables collaborative medical image segmentation without centralizing sensitive data, real-world deployment is frequently complicated by cross-site label imperfections such as contour disagreement, missing or additional structures, and confused labels.
Multimodal based approaches often outperform single modality approaches in downstream tasks as the different modalities provide complementary information, yet acquiring paired clinical data remains a significant challenge in real world scenarios. While cross-modal knowledge distillation addresses this, existing methods often struggle with large modality gaps and the propagation of noise from uncertain source-domain predictions.
arXiv:2510. 12953v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent medical vision-language models have shown promise on tasks such as VQA, report generation, and anomaly detection.
arXiv:2608. 14766v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Uncertainty estimation is critical for the safe clinical deployment of deep learning in medical image segmentation, with aleatoric uncertainty theoretically designed to capture irreducible data ambiguity.
arXiv:2606. 11106v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A global shortage of trained sonographers limits prenatal ultrasound screening in low- and middle-income countries, where over half of pregnant women receive no skilled sonography.
Validating Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) methods in medical imaging requires ground-truth data with known locations of informative features. However, current approaches rely on expert annotations, which are prone to labeling errors, or on hand-crafted artificial perturbations superimposed onto healthy images to mimic lesions or malignant features, which lack clinical realism.
arXiv:2606. 03069v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalized segmentation of medical images prevents performance degradation when different imaging devices and clinical protocols are used across multiple domains.
arXiv:2607. 18882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Validating Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) methods in medical imaging requires ground-truth data with known locations of informative features.
arXiv:2608. 13939v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ultrasound is the primary imaging modality for assessing thyroid nodules, and the ACR TI-RADS framework standardizes diagnosis through five ultrasound feature categories that are aggregated into five risk levels (TR1-TR5).
arXiv:2608. 10903v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable clinical deployment of machine learning requires models that know when they are likely to fail, particularly for subgroups underrepresented in training data.