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Publications (23)

eess.IV2024

Skeleton Recall Loss for Connectivity Conserving and Resource Efficient Segmentation of Thin Tubular Structures

Yannick Kirchhoff, Maximilian R. Rokuss, Saikat Roy +8

Accurately segmenting thin tubular structures, such as vessels, nerves, roads or concrete cracks, is a crucial task in computer vision. Standard deep learning-based segmentation lo…

eess.IV2023

atTRACTive: Semi-automatic white matter tract segmentation using active learning

Robin Peretzke, Klaus Maier-Hein, Jonas Bohn +6

Accurately identifying white matter tracts in medical images is essential for various applications, including surgery planning and tract-specific analysis. Supervised machine learn…

cs.CV2026

Lost in the Folds: When Cross-Validation Is Not a Deep Ensemble for Uncertainty Estimation

Tristan Kirscher, Markus Bujotzek, Yannick Kirchhoff +5

Ensemble disagreement is widely used as a proxy for epistemic uncertainty in medical image segmentation. In practice, many studies form ensembles via K-fold cross-validation (CV),…

cs.CV2025

VoxTell: Free-Text Promptable Universal 3D Medical Image Segmentation

Maximilian Rokuss, Moritz Langenberg, Yannick Kirchhoff +8

We introduce VoxTell, a vision-language model for text-prompted volumetric medical image segmentation. It maps free-form descriptions, from single words to full clinical sentences,…

cs.CV2025

Expectation-Maximization as the Engine of Scalable Medical Intelligence

Wenxuan Li, Pedro R. A. S. Bassi, Tianyu Lin +19

Large, high-quality, annotated datasets are the foundation of medical AI research, but constructing even a small, moderate-quality, annotated dataset can take years of effort from…

eess.IV2024

From FDG to PSMA: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Multitracer, Multicenter Lesion Segmentation in PET/CT Imaging

Maximilian Rokuss, Balint Kovacs, Yannick Kirchhoff +4

Automated lesion segmentation in PET/CT scans is crucial for improving clinical workflows and advancing cancer diagnostics. However, the task is challenging due to physiological va…