arXiv:2512. 14937v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Gliomas are the most common malignant brain tumors in adults and are among the most lethal.
By Abhijeet Parida, Daniel Capell\'an-Mart\'in, Zhifan Jiang, Nishad Kulkarni, Krithika Iyer, Austin Tapp, Syed Muhammad Anwar, Mar\'ia J. Ledesma-Carbayo, Marius George Linguraru
arXiv:2609.24769v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Brain metastases are the most common intracranial malignancy, occurring in roughly 30% of patients with primary solid tumors and carrying a median surv...
By Mahdi Islam, Musarrat Tabassum
The paper presents a pragmatic segmentation pipeline for brain metastases in the BraTS 2026 Task 1, using a 5‑fold nnU-Net ResEnc‑L ensemble trained for 1,000 epochs on 1,296 four‑modality cases. A rule‑based post‑processing cascade tuned for the lesion‑wise Dice similarity coefficient (LW‑DSC) improves performance, achieving LW‑DSC scores of 0.733, 0.751, 0.713, and 0.549 on enhancing tumour, tumour core, whole tumour, and resection cavity, respectively. The authors audit each post‑processing stage with a five‑fold out‑of‑fold analysis, confirm two stages as robust, and provide a mechanistic analysis of LW‑DSC, along with thirteen negative results that challenge common intuitions.
VGG16-MCA UNet is a hybrid neural network that combines an ImageNet‑pretrained VGG16 encoder with a decoder enhanced by a Multi‑Channel Attention module, trained using Focal Tversky loss to address class imbalance. The model was evaluated as a 2‑D, FLAIR‑only whole‑tumor segmenter on BraTS 2020 and LGG datasets, achieving a pixel‑level Dice of 95.10 % on BraTS and 88.32 % on LGG in a 5‑fold cross‑validation setting. Inference time is 66.32 ms per 256×256 slice on a single RTX 2060, only slightly slower than a VGG16‑UNet without attention.
whyItMatters":"The study provides a reproducible 2‑D FLAIR baseline for whole‑tumor segmentation, demonstrating high Dice scores and detailed reporting of training and evaluation protocols."
By Shubham Gajjar, Deep Joshi, Avi Poptani, Vishal Barot
The paper presents a segmentation pipeline for brain metastases in both pre‑ and post‑treatment cases using a 5‑fold nnU‑Net ResEnc‑L ensemble trained on 1,296 four‑modality cases. A rule‑based post‑processing cascade improves the lesion‑wise Dice similarity coefficient (LW‑DSC) for enhancing tumour, tumour core, whole tumour, and resection cavity sub‑regions, achieving LW‑DSC scores of 0.733, 0.751, 0.713, and 0.549 respectively on the official validation leaderboard. The authors conduct a five‑fold out‑of‑fold analysis to validate the robustness of each post‑processing stage, provide a mechanistic explanation of LW‑DSC behaviour, and report thirteen negative results that challenge common intuitions, with all code released under Apache‑2.0.
By Haobin Liu, Xin Wang
arXiv:2605.05522v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Although self-supervised pretraining is expected to learn broadly transferable representations, its effectiveness across imaging modalities s...
By Aneesh Rangnekar, Joao Miranda, Natally Horvat, Stephanie Chahwan, Samir Alrayess, Aditya Apte, Aditi Iyer, Eve LoCastro, Revathi Ravella, Marc J Gollub, Iva Petkovska, Jesse Joshua Smith, Paul Romesser, Julio Garcia-Aguilar, Harini Veeraraghavan, Joseph O Deasy