Papers for

radiology software teams

Papers whose findings have a practical use for this group, as judged from the abstract. Open a paper to read what it means in practice.

Pace moe improves accuracy in medical image and text matching

PACE-MoE: Adaptive Domain Sampling and Domain-Specific LoRA for Medical Visual Grounding

Abstract: Medical visual grounding requires models to align clinical descriptions with spatial evidence across heterogeneous imaging domains. However, existing multi-domain post-training strategies typically rely on fixed domain sampling and shared parameter updates, overlooking the need to adapt both which domains receive training and where their updates are applied. To address this issue, we propose PACE-MoE, a policy-guided framework that jointly performs adaptive domain sampling and domain-specific adaptation for medical visual grounding. PACE dynamically assesses the training value of each imaging domain from current-policy feedback and progressively adjusts domain coverage through domain admission, replay, and final all-domain balancing. Meanwhile, domain-specific LoRA adapters route updates to the corresponding imaging domains while preserving the pretrained backbone and visual encoder. This coordinated design aligns training-data allocation with parameter adaptation without modifying the original reward formulation or Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) objective. Experiments across seven medical imaging domains show that PACE-MoE consistently improves grounding performance over fixed-domain training, achieving a 3.64% relative improvement in mean box IoU over the Vanilla baseline. Under matched domain-specific adapter architectures, adaptive sampling alone further improves mean box IoU by 2.07%, demonstrating the benefit of policy-guided domain allocation. These results establish coordinated data-parameter routing as an effective strategy for multi-domain medical visual grounding.

Tue 20 OctComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The gist
Matching medical images with the right clinical descriptions is difficult because there are many types of medical images. The authors developed PACE-MoE, a new system that learns which types of images to focus on during training and uses special adapters for each type. This approach helps the system better link medical text with the correct part of the image. Their tests show it works better than older methods across several kinds of medical images.
Open → 2610.27656v1

3D model generates controllable body and tumor CT segmentations

NV-Generate-Body: 3D Latent Diffusion Model forControllable Anatomy, Tumor, and Demographic Body Mask Synthesis

Abstract: Curating large labeled CT datasets is expensive and constrained by patient privacy. We present NV-Generate-BodyMask, a 3D latent diffusion model that synthesizes whole-body CT segmentation masks with precise, joint control over organ anatomy, tumor burden, and patient demographics. The model operates in the compressed latent space of a frozen mask autoencoder, generating $256^3$ volumetric label maps conditioned on a 19-dimensional vector via Adaptive Group Normalization and cross-attention. A size-adaptive ROI loss with spatial halo weighting and a paired tumor injection pipeline enable accurate tumor size conditioning despite the scarcity of annotated tumor cases. Trained on 8,571 masks across 26 cohorts spanning 132 labels, the model achieves Spearman $ρ= 0.70$--$0.92$ for organ size, 85--100\% tumor recall for lung, pancreatic, colon, and bone lesions, and strong demographic alignment (BMI $ρ= 0.78$, sex-conditioned perfect prostate control).

Fri 16 OctComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The gist
Creating large datasets of labeled CT scans is difficult and limited by privacy concerns. The authors developed a computer model that can generate 3D body maps showing organs and tumors in CT images, while controlling details like organ size, tumor presence, and patient traits such as sex and body mass index. This model uses a compressed representation to efficiently create high-resolution maps, even accurately representing tumor sizes despite limited tumor data. It was trained on thousands of samples and shows good alignment with real patient anatomy and tumor characteristics.
Open → 2610.24153v1

Medical imaging models improved with concept-based debugging tools

Beyond Explanation: Debugging Medical Imaging Models via Concept Intervention

Abstract: Medical imaging models often operate as black boxes, limiting interpretability and systematic debugging. We introduce an easy-to-use, plug-and-play framework for concept-based interpretation and model refinement. By aligning a single-modality encoder to BioMedCLIP, we construct a Concept Bottleneck Model (CBM) that enables concept-level interventions. These interventions allow us to isolate causal versus spuriously correlated concepts, validate insights with domain experts, and generate counterfactual samples for targeted fine-tuning. We evaluate our framework on a Mayo Clinic ultrasound dataset and the CheXpert 5x200 chest X-ray dataset. Results demonstrate that concept intervention enables reliable model diagnosis while maintaining, and occasionally improving predictive performance via guided fine-tuning. Our findings highlight the practical value of this framework for controlled, interpretable refinement of clinical deep learning models.

Tue 6 OctComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionMachine Learning
The gist
Medical imaging models can be hard to understand because they work like 'black boxes,' making it difficult to find mistakes. The authors created a tool that helps doctors and engineers look inside these models by focusing on meaningful concepts like specific medical features. This tool lets users test if certain concepts really cause the model's decisions or if they just appear connected by accident. They tested this approach on ultrasound and chest X-ray images, showing that it helps find and fix problems, sometimes even making predictions more accurate.
Open → 2610.09031v1

Multimodal model routes text and image features to segment medical scans accurately

Multimodal Routing and Region Refinement for Language-Guided Medical Image Segmentation

Abstract: Textual descriptions can reduce ambiguity in medical image segmentation by specifying the finding and location to be delineated. Existing text-guided methods mainly improve where image and language features interact but generally retain a single learned update pathway across all image-text pairs. We propose MRSeg, a parameter-efficient framework that uses each image-text pair to route the adaptation of visual and textual features before dense prediction. Frozen ConvNeXt-Tiny and PubMedBERT encoders provide multiscale visual features and clinical text tokens. A joint router uses the deepest visual feature and pooled text to predict a sparse mixture over low-rank adapter bases. The resulting route is shared across separate adapter banks for two visual scales and text, coordinating their adaptation while keeping the feature-specific parameters separate. Region Bridge uses text-derived queries to aggregate dense visual tokens into latent regions, refines these regions through self-attention and text cross-attention, and redistributes the refined information back to the feature maps. Finally, a multiscale decoder combines refined semantic features with shallow image evidence. On QaTa-COV19 and MosMedData+, MRSeg achieves 90.90/83.32 and 81.53/68.82 Dice/mIoU, respectively, with 7.11M trainable parameters and 7.60 GFLOPs. Code: https://github.com/maklachur/MRSeg.

Thu 24 SeptComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionMachine Learning
The gist
Medical images can be hard to analyze because the areas of interest might be unclear. The authors designed a system called MRSeg that uses both images and written medical descriptions to better identify specific regions in scans. Their method smartly mixes and adapts visual and language information, improving accuracy while keeping the model efficient. Tests on chest CT scan datasets show it segments lung issues more precisely than some existing methods.
Open → 2609.28860v1