The study evaluates automatic tooth segmentation on panoramic radiographs using a large annotated corpus of 1,422 images and 42,142 tooth polygons. It finds that increasing input resolution improves boundary precision (mask mAP50‑95 rises from 0.656 to 0.717) while detection performance remains unchanged, and that architectural changes have minimal impact on in‑domain accuracy. Targeted interventions such as LoRA adaptation, promptable foundation models, and anatomical label assignment provide negligible gains, indicating that resolution and acquisition diversity should be prioritized over model novelty.
By Muhammad Rehan, Moaz Amjad, Syed Danial Ahmed, Mariam Adnan, Haider Ali
arXiv:2610.15061v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Accurate and efficient analysis of dental radiographs has become increasingly important for disease diagnosis and clinical decision making. In partic...
By Malithi Nawarathne, Nadeesha Herath Mudiyanselage Lihini Sangeetha
arXiv:2609.17800v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) remain largely unreliable on panoramic dental radiographs and can rely on learned anatomical priors rather than evidence...
By Ahmed Rafid, Fariya Ahmed, Rumman Adib, Mehedi Ahamed, Ajwad Abrar, Tareque Mohmud Chowdhury
UnCapsTSR is an unsupervised transformer-based GAN framework designed to enhance the spatial resolution of low‑resolution wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) images. It eliminates the need for explicit degradation modeling or paired LR‑HR data by using a Bilateral Total Variation loss to preserve spatial continuity. The authors introduce a new Kvasir Capsule dataset for training, validate generalizability on KID and GIANA datasets, and propose the Endoscopy Quality Metric (EndoQM) as a non‑reference evaluation tool, reporting 40–80% improvement in EndoQM over state‑of‑the‑art unsupervised methods.
By Anjali Sarvaiya, Shubh Kawa, Lalit Agrawal, Jagrit Joshi, Kishor Upla, Kiran Raja
The study introduces a multitask conditional generative adversarial network (MT‑cGAN) that simultaneously synthesizes high‑resolution DESS‑like images and segments knee cartilage and menisci directly from quantitative MRI echo images. Evaluated on 508 knee MRIs from 361 subjects, MT‑cGAN achieved a mean Dice score of 0.84 for segmentation and the lowest coefficient of variation for T1ρ (1.84%) and T2 (1.81%) quantification, outperforming existing conditional GAN approaches. By eliminating the need for separate high‑resolution morphological scans, the method shortens scan times and supports clinical adoption of quantitative MRI.
By Ahmed Tahseen Minhaz, Richard Lartey, Zhiyuan Zhang, Jeehun Kim, Kunio Nakamura, Mingrui Yang, Jiasen Zhang, Weihong Guo, Naveen Subhas, Carl S. Winalski, Xiaojuan Li
TransNSNet is a Transformer‑enhanced multi‑scale adversarial framework designed for CT‑to‑PET image synthesis. The study curated a paired CT‑PET dataset from a public NSCLC Radiogenomics collection and evaluated the framework against several baselines, reporting that TransNSNet achieved the best mean performance in nine of ten metrics while maintaining a smaller parameter footprint. Statistical analysis found no significant superiority over other models after correction, and the authors caution that synthesized PET‑like images should not replace clinically acquired PET scans.
By Shaojun Li, Xiaoyu Deng, Ikuo Keshi