arXiv:2609.01554v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Automated lesion segmentation in whole-body PET/CT is complicated by the variety of physiological tracer uptake patterns and by the differing appeara...
By Marven Sherif (Brightskies), Amgad Elmasry (Brightskies), Youssef Ghazal (Brightskies), Ayman Elghotni (Brightskies)
arXiv:2604.16729v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: State-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) show high performance in general visual question answering. However, a fundamental limitation r...
By Ayhan Can Erdur, Daniel Scholz, Jiazhen Pan, Benedikt Wiestler, Daniel Rueckert, Jan C. Peeken
arXiv:2609.16775v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Annotating large radiology datasets is bottlenecked by the manual effort of delineating structures slice-by-slice in 3D volumes. Interactive methods re...
By Abhilaksh Singh Reen, Kushal Borkar, Ritvik Mahapatra
arXiv:2609.25743v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Interactive segmentation of 3D medical images supports quantitative analysis of anatomical structures and disease while allowing users to specify and r...
By Ping Gong, Shiyuan Su, Fandong Zhang, Xinchen Han, Haowei Sun, Yiming Li, Yizhou Yu
NV-Reason-CT is a generative vision‑language model designed for chest and abdominal CT analysis that preserves native 3D visual encoding and incorporates radiologist‑guided reasoning. The system couples a 3D vision transformer with a language model, feeding all visual tokens and their 3D coordinates directly into language decoding to maintain volumetric spatial information. Trained on a curated corpus of about 550,000 multimodal instruction examples, the model supports abnormality classification, report generation, and interactive reasoning, achieving strong performance on CT benchmarks and reducing expert interpretation time by 50%.
By Andriy Myronenko, Dong Yang, Yucheng Tang, Baris Turkbey, Benjamin Simon, Stephanie Harmon, Rikhil Makwana, Mariam Aboian, Sena Azamat, Ibrahim Ethem Hamamci, Sezgin Er, Bjoern Menze, Marc Edgar, Yufan He, Pengfei Guo, Daguang Xu
The paper introduces SPAR‑Bench, a set of eight probes designed to test whether medical vision models can reason about anatomy in abdominal CT scans. Experiments across five architectures and three foundation models—both frozen and fine‑tuned—show that while models can recall canonical organ locations, they fail to perform relational reasoning or spatial comparisons within a patient, even under zero‑shot transfer. The study also demonstrates that pooled probing underestimates a model’s relational capabilities and that open‑weight multimodal large language models perform poorly on these tasks.
By Naren Akash, Neeraja Ramanan