17 papers
Merlin Plus: A Large-Scale, Multi-Cancer, Image-Mask-Report Dataset
Pedro R. A. S. Bassi, Wenxuan Li, Szymon Plotka +10
Multi-cancer segmentation in computed tomography (CT) is fundamentally limited by the scarcity of tumor masks across different organs. We present Merlin Plus, the first large-scale…
LightMedSeg-ISLES: Stroke Lesion Segmentation with 81x Fewer Parameters than nnU-Net
Giorgi Nikvashvili, Hanxue Gu, Jie Bao +2
Large networks and ensembles often lead medical image segmentation challenges, but their storage and inference demands complicate deployment. We present LightMedSeg-ISLES, a 1.26-m…
Report Supervision
Pedro R. A. S. Bassia, Wenxuan Li, Jakob Wasserthal +10
Segmentation models can surpass radiologists, classification models, and vision-language models in tumor detection. Importantly, segmentation models outline tumors, allowing radiol…
BenchX: Benchmarking AI Models for Cancer Detection and Localization with Demographic and Protocol Biases
Qi Chen, Wenxuan Li, Pedro R. A. S. Bassi +14
Artificial intelligence (AI) has achieved remarkable success in medical imaging, but it is widely recognized that these models often perform inconsistently across real-world clinic…
Automated Report-Derived Oncology VQA Benchmark for Evaluating Vision-Language Models on 3D Medical Imaging
Bo Liu, Hanxue Gu, Xiangru Li +6
Evaluating vision-language models (VLMs) on medical images requires benchmarks that are clinically grounded, scalable, and controlled for evaluation confounds. Existing public benc…
Distilling Photon-Counting CT into Routine Chest CT through Clinically Validated Degradation Modeling
Junqi Liu, Xinze Zhou, Wenxuan Li +10
Photon-counting CT (PCCT) provides superior image quality with higher spatial resolution and lower noise compared to conventional energy-integrating CT (EICT), but its limited clin…
Early and Prediagnostic Detection of Pancreatic Cancer from Computed Tomography
Wenxuan Li, Pedro R. A. S. Bassi, Lizhou Wu +34
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), one of the deadliest solid malignancies, is often detected at a late and inoperable stage. Retrospective reviews of prediagnostic CT scans,…
See More, Change Less: Anatomy-Aware Diffusion for Contrast Enhancement
Junqi Liu, Zejun Wu, Pedro R. A. S. Bassi +15
Image enhancement improves visual quality and helps reveal details that are hard to see in the original image. In medical imaging, it can support clinical decision-making, but curr…
Scaling Artificial Intelligence for Multi-Tumor Early Detection with More Reports, Fewer Masks
Pedro R. A. S. Bassi, Xinze Zhou, Wenxuan Li +20
Early tumor detection save lives. Each year, more than 300 million computed tomography (CT) scans are performed worldwide, offering a vast opportunity for effective cancer screenin…
Learning Segmentation from Radiology Reports
Pedro R. A. S. Bassi, Wenxuan Li, Jieneng Chen +8
Tumor segmentation in CT scans is key for diagnosis, surgery, and prognosis, yet segmentation masks are scarce because their creation requires time and expertise. Public abdominal…
PanTS: The Pancreatic Tumor Segmentation Dataset
Wenxuan Li, Xinze Zhou, Qi Chen +15
PanTS is a large-scale, multi-institutional dataset curated to advance research in pancreatic CT analysis. It contains 36,390 CT scans from 145 medical centers, with expert-validat…
Medical World Model: Generative Simulation of Tumor Evolution for Treatment Planning
Yijun Yang, Zhao-Yang Wang, Qiuping Liu +8
Providing effective treatment and making informed clinical decisions are essential goals of modern medicine and clinical care. We are interested in simulating disease dynamics for…
MedSegFactory: Text-Guided Generation of Medical Image-Mask Pairs
Jiawei Mao, Yuhan Wang, Yucheng Tang +5
This paper presents MedSegFactory, a versatile medical synthesis framework that generates high-quality paired medical images and segmentation masks across modalities and tasks. It…
RadGPT: Constructing 3D Image-Text Tumor Datasets
Pedro R. A. S. Bassi, Mehmet Can Yavuz, Kang Wang +7
Cancers identified in CT scans are usually accompanied by detailed radiology reports, but publicly available CT datasets often lack these essential reports. This absence limits the…
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…
Text-Driven Tumor Synthesis
Xinran Li, Yi Shuai, Chen Liu +11
Tumor synthesis can generate examples that AI often misses or over-detects, improving AI performance by training on these challenging cases. However, existing synthesis methods, wh…
Universal and Extensible Language-Vision Models for Organ Segmentation and Tumor Detection from Abdominal Computed Tomography
Jie Liu, Yixiao Zhang, Kang Wang +8
The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) for organ segmentation and tumor detection is propelled by the growing availability of computed tomography (CT) datasets with detail…