DALE-CT introduces depth‑aware 2D slice encoders that learn an anatomical world model of chest CT scans without 3D or positional supervision. By sampling self‑supervised views across a physical $z$‑axis slab, the encoder captures how anatomy changes between neighboring slices, enabling it to recover slice ordering and distinguish slices by anatomy alone. The model, trained on a large 287k‑scan corpus, achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on CT‑RATE and is released with full code and evaluation tools.
By Evan W. Damron, Mahmut S. Gokmen, Mitchell A. Klusty, Caroline N. Leach, Emily B. Collier, V. K. Cody Bumgardner
arXiv:2609.25850v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Deep learning performance generally improves with increasing training data, yet this scaling is fundamentally constrained by annotation cost in large-s...
By Xiaofei Du, Lei Zhang, Shuyu Yan, Manning Wang, Zhijian Song
arXiv:2607. 25164v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A CT examination captures multiple organs, but many biomedical questions concern abnormalities, prognosis, or longitudinal change in a specific organ.
By Zhixuan Ge, Anqi Li, Sadeer Al-Kindi, Hanwen Xu, Wei Qiu
The paper reports the submissions of team nucli to the HECKTOR 2026 challenge, which evaluates machine learning methods for head‑and‑neck cancer imaging. The team used self‑supervised pre‑trained encoders, training a 2D DINOv2 encoder on PET scans and combining a DynUNet with a SwinUNETR for segmentation, achieving a mean Dice of 0.5409. For TN staging, they fused geometric features from segmentation masks with PET‑DINOv2‑MIPs deep features via logistic regression, obtaining balanced accuracies of 0.3962 (T‑stage) and 0.6432 (N‑stage). For recurrence‑free survival prognosis, they fine‑tuned the PET‑DINOv2‑MIPs ViT‑S encoder with an MLP head under a CoxPH loss, achieving a Harrell's C‑index of 0.6577 and a weighted challenge score of 0.5802.
arXiv:2408.07988v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Despite significant research efforts and advancements, cancer remains a leading cause of mortality. Early cancer prediction has become a crucial fo...
By Samta Rani, Tanvir Ahmad, Sarfaraz Masood, Chandni Saxena
arXiv:2609.26384v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Medical image interpretation is high-volume and time-consuming, and while AI interpretation can reduce workload, fully autonomous deployment carries po...
By Emma Sun, Joshua Strong, Alison Noble