Team FME submitted a method for the MAMA-MIA Challenge that tackles primary tumor segmentation and pathological complete response (pCR) prediction using dynamic contrast‑enhanced breast MRI. For segmentation, they employed a five‑fold residual‑encoder nnU‑Net ensemble trained on the first post‑contrast minus pre‑contrast image, augmented with mirroring test‑time augmentation and largest‑connected‑component filtering, achieving a Dice score of 0.713 and a normalized Hausdorff distance of 0.099. For pCR prediction, they ensembled 25 pretrained 3D video classifiers on lesion‑centred crops from the pre‑contrast and first two post‑contrast volumes, reaching a balanced accuracy of 0.541 and an equalized‑odds disparity of 0.212, and ranked second in both tasks.
By Kai Geissler, Raphael Sch\"afer
arXiv:2608.29944v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Brain tumor segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a critical task for diagnosis and treatment planning. Despite the success of deep learn...
By Henrique Zan Grande, Jo\~ao G. Pitol, Lucas B. Schuck, Rafael V. Serenato, Rayson Laroca, Andre Gustavo Hochuli
NeuroTS-Net is a 3‑D encoder‑decoder CNN designed for multi‑class semantic segmentation of pediatric brain tumors in multi‑modal MRI. It uses a dual‑scale raw‑detail stream, adaptive low‑resolution context selection, and detail‑preserving multipath downsampling to maintain fine intensity and boundary information while modeling broader tumor context. Trained on the BraTS 2026 pediatric dataset, it outperformed nnU‑Net and MedNeXt, achieving Dice scores of 0.938/0.937 on internal validation and 0.927/0.926 on the official challenge set.
By Darius Peteleaza, Razvan-Gabriel Dumitru, Bogdan Neamtu, Arpad Gellert, Mariana Sandu, Claudiu Matei
arXiv:2512. 14937v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Gliomas are the most common malignant brain tumors in adults and are among the most lethal.
By Abhijeet Parida, Daniel Capell\'an-Mart\'in, Zhifan Jiang, Nishad Kulkarni, Krithika Iyer, Austin Tapp, Syed Muhammad Anwar, Mar\'ia J. Ledesma-Carbayo, Marius George Linguraru
The paper introduces MSM‑Seg, a dual‑memory segmentation framework for 3D multi‑modal brain tumor segmentation. It combines a modality‑and‑slice memory attention module to capture cross‑modal and spatial‑slice dependencies, a multi‑scale category‑agnostic prompt encoder for whole‑tumor guidance, and a modality‑adaptive fusion decoder to integrate complementary decoding information. Experiments on various MRI datasets show that MSM‑Seg surpasses state‑of‑the‑art methods for metastases and glioma tumor segmentation.
By Yuxiang Luo, Qing Xu, Hai Huang, Yuqi Ouyang, Xiangjian He, Zhen Chen, Wenting Duan, Jiebo Luo
arXiv:2608.23745v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Accurate brain tumor segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for diagnosis, treatment planning, surgical guidance, and diseas...
By Mohammad Mahdi Danesh Pajouh, Sara Saeedi
arXiv:2510.14383v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Accurate brain tumor segmentation is significant for clinical diagnosis and treatment but remains challenging due to tumor heterogeneity. Mamba-bas...
By Danish Ali, Ajmal Mian, Naveed Akhtar, Ghulam Mubashar Hassan
The paper introduces a lightweight Vision Transformer‑based U‑Net for brain tumor segmentation from MRI, combining U‑Net’s hierarchical feature extraction with a compact ViT bottleneck to capture both local and global context. With only 2.6 million trainable parameters, the model achieves a mean Intersection over Union of 0.8100 and a Dice score of 0.8446 on the TCGA LGG dataset, surpassing the baseline U‑Net by 3.75% and 3.15% respectively. Extensive quantitative and qualitative analyses, including confusion matrices, precision‑recall curves, and tumor size dependency studies, demonstrate the method’s effectiveness and robustness.
By Sheekar Banerjee, Md. Srabon Chowdhury, Md. Mahbub Hasan Akash, Ishtiak Al Mamoon
The paper introduces a method for generalizable brain tumor segmentation in the BraTS 2026 Challenge. It builds on the nnU-Net framework with a large residual encoder, adding semi‑supervised learning via pseudo‑labels and a tumor‑aware deformable augmentation that locally deforms lesions while preserving surrounding anatomy. The approach improves Dice and NSD scores across all tumor regions compared to labeled‑only baselines, demonstrating the complementary benefits of self‑training and the proposed augmentation.
By Henrique Zan Grande, Jeovane Honorio Alves, Rayson Laroca, Andre Gustavo Hochuli
arXiv:2607. 22749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tracking residual tumor after surgery is essential for catching recurrence early, but automating post-operative glioma segmentation remains a difficult task.
By Alexandru Cri\c{s}an, Diana Borza
The paper presents a segmentation pipeline for brain metastases in both pre‑ and post‑treatment cases using a 5‑fold nnU‑Net ResEnc‑L ensemble trained on 1,296 four‑modality cases. A rule‑based post‑processing cascade improves the lesion‑wise Dice similarity coefficient (LW‑DSC) for enhancing tumour, tumour core, whole tumour, and resection cavity sub‑regions, achieving LW‑DSC scores of 0.733, 0.751, 0.713, and 0.549 respectively on the official validation leaderboard. The authors conduct a five‑fold out‑of‑fold analysis to validate the robustness of each post‑processing stage, provide a mechanistic explanation of LW‑DSC behaviour, and report thirteen negative results that challenge common intuitions, with all code released under Apache‑2.0.
By Haobin Liu, Xin Wang
arXiv:2605.05522v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Although self-supervised pretraining is expected to learn broadly transferable representations, its effectiveness across imaging modalities s...
By Aneesh Rangnekar, Joao Miranda, Natally Horvat, Stephanie Chahwan, Samir Alrayess, Aditya Apte, Aditi Iyer, Eve LoCastro, Revathi Ravella, Marc J Gollub, Iva Petkovska, Jesse Joshua Smith, Paul Romesser, Julio Garcia-Aguilar, Harini Veeraraghavan, Joseph O Deasy