RAM‑H1200 is a new public benchmark comprising 1,200 hand radiographs from six medical centers, each annotated with whole‑hand bone instance segmentation, pixel‑level bone erosion masks, joint regions of interest, and joint‑level Sharp‑van der Heijde (SvdH) scores for bone erosion and joint space narrowing. The dataset enables unified multi‑level analysis of anatomical structure, localized erosive pathology, and clinically standardized RA severity, filling a gap in existing resources that lack full‑hand coverage and fine‑grained annotations. Initial benchmark results show strong performance in bone segmentation but highlight that bone erosion segmentation remains a significant challenge, underscoring the dataset’s potential to advance quantitative RA analysis.
By Songxiao Yang, Haolin Wang, Yao Fu, Junmu Peng, Lin Fan, Hongruixuan Chen, Jian Song, Masayuki Ikebe, Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki, Masatoshi Okutomi, Tamotsu Kamishima, Yafei Ou
The paper introduces a dual‑input, multi‑task learning framework that jointly segments and classifies bone tumors by applying bidirectional cross‑modal attention between a lesion crop and the full radiograph. Using a YOLO‑based detector and a dual‑stream DenseNet121 architecture, the model fuses fine‑grained lesion detail with global anatomical context through a novel cross‑modal attention fusion strategy and hierarchical multi‑scale feature fusion. On the multi‑institutional Bone Tumor X‑ray Radiograph Dataset, the approach outperforms single‑input baselines, achieving a Dice coefficient of 0.896 and a macro‑averaged F1‑score of 0.928, with an AUC of 0.999 for malignant osteosarcoma.
By S. M. Nasif Uddin, Rusab Sarmun, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury, Adam Mushtak, Israa Al-Hashimi, Sohaib Bassam Zoghoul
arXiv:2607. 02185v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning has achieved remarkable performance in medical image segmentation, yet it suffers from critical limitations: mathematical intractability, substantial parameter requirements, and lack of clinical interpretability.
By Mohammad Amanour Rahman
arXiv:2606. 05357v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Purpose: To develop an interpretable and trustworthy AI framework that combines deep learning based MRI Osteoarthritis Knee Score (MOAKS) prediction with interpretable statistical modeling to study structure-pain relationships at scale using data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI).
By Jincheng Yu, Haoyang Li, Yiwen Liu, Shen Liu, Rachel Yuanbao Chen, C. Kent Kwoh, Hongxu Ding, Xiaoxiao Sun
arXiv:2609.31461v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Background: Large volumes of unlabeled knee MRI scans are available across repositories but remain insufficiently leveraged. We developed KneePreM, a k...
By Xinxin Wang, Liam Hazan, Jing Li, Simona Rabinovici-Cohen, Xiaojuan Li, Mingrui Yang
arXiv:2609.26578v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Accurate preoperative subtype classification of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) from contrast-enhanced CT remains clinically challenging because clear cell...
By Yuan Liang, Fangyijie Wang, Kathleen M. Curran, Gu\'enol\'e Silvestre, Sourav Bhattacharjee, Abraham Campbell