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Applications of Neural Cellular Automata: State of the Art, Challenges and Opportunities

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arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 1

Coarse to Fine: Iterative Adversarial Neural Cellular Automata for Medical Image Synthesis

The paper introduces StyleGANCA, a lightweight neural cellular automata (NCA) based generative adversarial network designed for medical image synthesis. By combining a StyleGAN-inspired mapping network with adaptive style modulation in a multi-scale NCA framework, the model achieves high-quality image generation with far fewer parameters than existing adversarial, variational, diffusion, and NCA baselines. Experiments on BloodMNIST and PathMNIST show competitive FID and KID scores, and the synthetic images preserve class-specific information, effectively supporting downstream multi-class classifier training.

By Anh Thi Luu, Nick Lemke, Anirban Mukhopadhyay
arXiv AI
Jun 24

Render-FM: Feedforward Model for Real-time Photorealistic Volumetric Rendering

arXiv:2505. 17338v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Photorealistic volumetric rendering of CT scans greatly benefits clinical workflows, yet neural approaches such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) require prohibitive per-scan optimization (hours for NeRF, about 30 minutes for 3DGS), making them impractical in clinical settings.

By Zhongpai Gao, Benjamin Planche, Meng Zheng, Anwesa Choudhuri, Van Nguyen Nguyen, Terrence Chen, Ziyan Wu
arXiv AI
Aug 18

Comprehensive Benchmarking of Deep Learning Architectures for Lung Cancer Histopathology

arXiv:2608. 15915v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, while histopathological diagnosis is often affected by inter-observer variability and the substantial workload associated with manual slide examination.

By Hadi Hasan, Safaa Salman, Lama Sleem, Ralph Mouawad, Ali Chehab
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

Lightweight Vision Transformer-Based U-Net for Brain Tumor Segmentation from MRI

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