SAMI3D-DW: Interactive Segmentation of Any 3D Medical Images
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The study explores how adding anatomical priors and active learning can improve the accuracy of deep learning models for segmenting the Clinical Target Volume (CTV) in gastric cancer radiotherapy. Using 100 retrospective CT scans, an nnU‑Net model trained on 10 expert‑contoured cases was enhanced with voxel‑wise anatomical prior maps and iterative active learning over four rounds. The combined approach raised the mean Dice Similarity Coefficient from 0.84 to 0.87, demonstrating that both techniques individually and together improve segmentation performance and generalizability.
Foundation models such as Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) have transformed natural-image and video segmentation, and recent work has begun adapting them to medical imaging. These adaptations, however, are largely general-purpose models that treat MRI as one modality among many; large-scale, MRI-specific modelling and benchmarking remain limited, even though MRI's low soft-tissue contrast leaves many boundaries effectively invisible on individual slices.
arXiv:2609.37648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Preoperative liver-tumor assessment requires segmentation, physical-space measurement, visual evidence, and resection planning from the same three-dime...
The paper introduces the first adaptation of the MedSAM2 foundation model for interactive 3D segmentation of interstitial lung disease (ILD) on thoracic CT scans. It evaluates three fine‑tuning strategies and four prompt types—bounding‑boxes, points, lassos, and scribbles—finding that full model fine‑tuning yields the best performance, improving Dice scores by 4.7 percentage points over the baseline. A proof‑of‑concept workflow is presented where MedSAM2 is first initialized with an automatic prior and then refined by radiologist prompts, with all resources released on GitHub.
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.
In clinical oncology studies, metastatic cancer is commonly evaluated using "Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors" (RECIST), in which the diameter of up to five lesions is measured and followed over the course of treatment. However, RECIST shows limited correlation with overall survival.