Pixel-level annotation remains a major bottleneck in medical image segmentation, making weak supervision an attractive yet under-constrained alternative. We propose OBBSeg, an intermediate supervision paradigm guided by Oriented Bounding Boxes (OBBs) that bridges the gap between full and weak supervision.
arXiv:2509. 25594v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Medical image segmentation is fundamental to clinical decision-making, yet existing models remain fragmented.
By Bangwei Guo, Yunhe Gao, Meng Ye, Difei Gu, Yang Zhou, Leon Axel, Dimitris Metaxas
arXiv:2608. 09818v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable medical image understanding requires models to connect clinical language and visual reasoning with pixel-level grounding.
By Haoyu Yang, Meixing Shi, Zengjie Chen, Haoran Sun, Haitao Leng, Xiaoming Shi, Yuxiang Cai, Yankai Jiang
Medical image segmentation relies on the ability of encoder-decoder architectures to translate rich feature representations into accurate pixel-level predictions under challenging conditions such as low contrast, structural ambiguity, and scale variability. While recent advances in large-scale pretraining and transformer-based encoders have substantially improved feature extraction, segmentation accuracy remains constrained by decoder design, particularly in terms of cross-scale alignment, contextual integration, and boundary preservation.
arXiv:2512. 21414v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent tool-use frameworks powered by vision-language models (VLMs) improve image understanding by grounding model predictions with specialized tools.
By Christina Liu, Alan Q. Wang, Joy Hsu, Jiajun Wu, Ehsan Adeli
Organ segmentation from PET/CT is critical for quantitative analysis and radiotherapy planning in oncology. To ease the high annotation cost of PET/CT segmentation, semi-supervised learning (SSL) provides a practical and effective solution for developing deep models with limited labeled data.