arXiv AI
4d ago

WoundAmbit: Bridging State-of-the-Art Semantic Segmentation and Real-World Wound Care

WoundAmbit is a framework that evaluates state‑of‑the‑art deep learning models for wound segmentation, benchmarking general‑purpose vision, medical imaging, and public wound challenge methods under standardized training, augmentation, and cross‑validation. The study finds transformer‑based TransNeXt offers the best generalizability, while all models run at least one image per second on a CPU and show strong interpretability and expert‑approved mask quality. The framework also introduces a reference‑object approach to convert masks into clinically relevant wound size estimates, demonstrating close alignment with expert annotations and integration into a custom telehealth system.

By Vanessa Borst, Timo Dittus, Tassilo Dege, Astrid Schmieder, Samuel Kounev
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

Solving the Needle-in-a-Haystack Problem in Mammography Vision-Language Model with Differentiable Subset Sampling

The paper introduces TopKSigLIP, a vision‑language model tailored for mammography that tackles two key challenges: high‑resolution imaging and homogeneous radiology reports. It replaces standard CLIP training with a TopK‑Patch module that selects sparse high‑resolution patches likely to contain lesions, and a Sup‑sigmoid loss that uses soft labels from structured data instead of contrastive loss. TopKSigLIP outperforms existing open‑source mammography and general medical VLMs on zero‑shot tasks such as density assessment, BI‑RADS classification, finding subtyping, and cancer prediction, while also providing better lesion localization than Grad‑CAM.

By Young Seok Jeon, Beatrice Brown-Mulry, Rohan Satya Isaac, Anjana Dissanayaka, Theo Dapamede, Mohammadreza Chavoshi, Judy Gichoya, Hari Trivedi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

BiLoG-Net: A Bi-Context Location-Guided Network for Breast Mass Segmentation and Malignancy Classification in Mammography

arXiv:2607. 10188v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Breast cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed malignancy among women worldwide, yet accurate detection and characterization of breast masses in mammography remain challenging due to subtle intensity variations, heterogeneous tissue densities, and indistinct lesion boundaries that complicate radiological interpretation.

By Abu Fatema Mohammad Abdun Noor, Md Imam Ahasan, Md Samiul Ahasan, Kah Ong Michael Goh, S M Hasan Mahmud, Raihana Zannat