arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 16

Risk-Routed Implicit Boundary Refinement for Robust Ultrasound Image Segmentation

Risk‑Routed Implicit Boundary Refinement (RIBR) is a compact framework designed to improve boundary delineation in medical ultrasound images. It refines convolutional segmentation by applying spatially weighted implicit residuals, where a coordinate‑conditioned implicit branch predicts logit corrections and a learned gate modulates their influence based on predictive uncertainty and local appearance. Geometry‑ and speckle‑aware regularization provides contour supervision, and RIBR outperforms ten baselines across nine datasets, achieving a macro‑average Dice of 76.67% and the lowest Hausdorff distance on all datasets.

By Jingguo Qu, Xinyang Han, Xiang Wang, Yuqi Yang, Tonghuan Xiao, Sheng Ning, Jing Qin, Ann Dorothy King, Winnie Chiu-Wing Chu, Jing Cai, Michael Ying
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

Match4Annotate: Cross-Video Annotation Transfer in Ultrasound via Implicit Feature Flow-Guided Matching

Match4Annotate is a test‑time framework that transfers user‑specified annotations from a labeled ultrasound video to an unlabeled target video without requiring manual initialization. It uses a spatiotemporal implicit feature representation, a continuous implicit feature flow for alignment, and flow‑guided annotation transfer to unify sparse point and dense mask transfer. The method achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on four clinical ultrasound datasets, outperforming dense feature‑matching baselines and one‑shot segmentation methods, and works without task‑specific training on a single consumer GPU.

By Zhuorui Zhang, Roger Pallar\`es-L\'opez, Praneeth Namburi, Brian W. Anthony