arXiv:2608.21583v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Oral cancer is a leading cause of mortality in low-to-middle-income countries, where a shortage of specialists delays diagnosis. While point-of-care sc...
By Siddhant Bharadwaj, Aakash Shedsale, Tejashree Subramanya, Mohd. Azfar, Praveen Birur, Debnath Pal, Shankararama Sharma, Anupama Shetty, Rajesh Sundaresan
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).
By Bingxin Yu, Xueli Wang, Jerry Zhou, Wenyan Wang, Li Wen, Lan Huang, Xin Feng, Fengfeng Zhou, Kewei Li
The study evaluates lesion‑guided region‑of‑interest (ROI) deep learning for ovarian ultrasound classification, comparing it to global image, lesion contour, and contour‑based radiomics approaches across two public datasets. Using four deep‑learning architectures, the lesion‑guided ROI strategy achieved the highest accuracy (93.10% on MMOTU and 97.56% on OUD) with an AUC of 0.99, while requiring less annotation effort than contour‑based methods.
By Mehran Ahmad, Ali Abbasian Ardakani, Afshin Mohammadi, Alisa Mohebbi, Gernot Kronreif, Sepideh Hatamikia
arXiv:2607. 02594v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning is widely applied in medical image analysis, but up to 10% of manually labelled images may be incorrect, degrading model performance.
By Zhipeng Zhang, Wenhui Shou, Wengting Ma, Dongjia Xing, Qingqing Xu, Li-Qun Xu, Qingxia Fan, Ling Xu
arXiv:2607. 03466v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study aims to predict Tumor, Node, and Metastasis (TNM) stage labels independently, with the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) pathology report as the sixth shared task of SMM4H-HeaRD 2026.
By Joseph Itopa Abubakar, Jorge Jarme, Favour Igwezeke, Mary Adewunmi
This study presents a clinically relevant framework for evaluating deep neural networks that segment lymphoma lesions in PET/CT images, addressing gaps such as out‑of‑distribution testing and comparison with expert annotators. Using 611 multi‑institutional cases, the authors assess four networks (ResUNet, SegResNet, DynUNet, SwinUNETR) with lesion‑specific metrics, detection criteria, and metabolic‑characteristic‑based thresholds, finding that models perform best on large, intense lesions. The work also demonstrates that network errors mirror those of physicians, highlighting shared challenges with small, faint lesions.
By Shadab Ahamed, Yixi Xu, Sara Kurkowska, Claire Gowdy, Joo H. O, Ingrid Bloise, Don Wilson, Patrick Martineau, Fran\c{c}ois B\'enard, Fereshteh Yousefirizi, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista, William B. Weeks, Carlos F. Uribe, Arman Rahmim
arXiv:2607. 23883v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we examine the difficulties of using standard techniques for medical image classification due to long-tailed distributions (wherein rarer conditions have very few samples) resulting in bias towards diagnosing common diseases and away from rarer diseases.
By Nathanael Ren, Saagar Arya
EMFE (Efficient Mathematical Feature Extraction) is a lightweight, explainable machine‑learning framework that classifies single red‑blood‑cell images as parasitized or uninfected using five engineered features: Gray World color normalization, adaptive green‑channel thresholding, morphological spot detection, and classical classifiers. On the NIH LHNCBC malaria dataset (27,558 images from 200 patients), a tuned Random Forest achieved 94.6% pooled out‑of‑fold accuracy, 94.3% on a 40‑patient holdout, and outperformed deep‑learning baselines in an accuracy‑efficiency trade‑off. Ablation studies, synthetic perturbations, and explainability analyses identified spot saturation as the dominant discriminative feature and quantified the framework’s failure modes and patient‑level performance.
By Md Abdullah Al Kafi, Walayat Hussain, Mousumi Karmakar, Sumit Kumar Banshal, Ahmed Al Marouf
arXiv:2607. 13043v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning models achieve state-of-the-art image classification but face deployment challenges due to computational costs and energy demands.
By Daniel Vila-Cruz, Laura Mor\'an-Fern\'andez, Ver\'onica Bol\'on-Canedo
arXiv:2609.22631v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Accurate automated interpretation of electrocardio- grams (ECGs) is essential for early detection of cardiac condi- tions such as myocardial infarction...
By Mohammad Sadman Tahsin, Haitham Y. Adarbah, Afzel Noore
The paper introduces the Cross‑Modal Triage Network (CMTN), a multimodal deep‑learning model that fuses a Swin Transformer V2 visual encoder with a PubMedBERT text encoder to perform severity‑based triage, pathology detection, and generate visual explanations for chest radiographs. Trained on 34,639 image‑text pairs from MIMIC‑CXR‑JPG, the CMTN achieves high ordinal agreement with reference labels (QWK = 0.9341) and excellent pathology detection (macro‑AUROC = 0.9970) while operating with 34 ms latency. However, a blinded clinical audit revealed low agreement with expert radiologists (QWK = 0.1399) and only modest spatial‑semantic concordance in heatmaps, underscoring the gap between algorithmic performance and clinical judgment.
By Zinah Ghulam, Richa Mittal, Eranga Ukwatta
This study introduces a computationally efficient convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture enhanced with transfer learning for multi-cancer detection using biomedical images. The proposed lightweight CNN model is designed to reduce computational complexity while maintaining high classification performance, making it suitable for deployment in resource-constrained environments.