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2608.13253
2 days ago

Resource-efficient Semantic Coding Schemes with Manifold-constrained Hyper-connections

Jingwen Fu, Ming Xiao

Semantic communication (SemCom) and task-oriented communication (TOC) can reduce wireless resource consumption by focusing on transmitting semantic or task-relevant information instead of raw messages. In practice, a main challenge is to make transmitting information robust to channel noise and fading while keeping it compact. Existing learning-based transceivers often improve reliability by using larger encoders or higher-dimensional channel features, which increase computation complexity and channel uses. Therefore, optimized system design needs explicit rate control to balance performance and transmitting resources e.g., bandwidth and power. For this purpose, we propose a manifold-constrained hyper-connection (mHC) coding scheme with an entropy bottleneck (EB) for resource-efficient SemCom and TOC over wireless channels. Instead of using a single residual path of existing encoders, the proposed mHC-based semantic encoder applies multiple residual streams and constrains their interaction by doubly stochastic (DS) mixing matrices. The new structure improves representation diversity and training stability with negligible parameter and floating-point overhead. The EB quantizes the channel features and estimates the entropy-coded rate, enabling end-to-end rate--distortion/task optimization under bandwidth and transmit-power constraints. We further show that DS-constrained stream mixing does not increase the differential entropy of the transmitted features. This implies no increase in the ideal EB coding length. Experiments on SemCom and TOC under additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), Rayleigh fading, Rician fading, and imperfect channel state information (CSI) show that the proposed scheme improves semantic/task performance, communication robustness, and convergence stability over residual and unconstrained HC baselines, while requiring no additional channel uses.

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Information TheoryImage and Video Processing
2608.13245
2 days ago

SoM-MTM: Synesthesia of Machines (SoM)-Driven Masked Token Model for Cooperative Perception over Packet Loss Channel

Haozhen Li, Rongqing Zhang, Xiang Cheng

To support the large-scale and heterogeneous visual cooperative perception (CP) demands in next-generation mobile networks, intelligent and efficient sensory data transmission is a critical challenge. Under the emerging convergence of communication networks and agentic artificial intelligence (AI), existing research emphasizes utilizing end-to-end neural networks to simplify communication modules, which has shown promising potential for CP. However, these studies are still limited to specific channel models, cooperation modes, and perception tasks, failing to fully leverage powerful visual processing approaches to enhance universality. To address this, we propose a Synesthesia of Machines (SoM)-driven Masked Token Model, referred to as SoM-MTM, as a plug-and-play paradigm for generic visual CP. Inspired by masked image modeling methods such as MAE, it possesses great perceptual context learning capabilities to recover distorted features over packet loss channels, thereby improving information carrying efficiency. Building upon Swin Transformer, SoM-MTM further embeds prior masked information through an External Routing MoE mechanism, maximally repairing and enhancing environmental perception features during cooperation. Comprehensive experimental results confirm that SoM-MTM can consistently enhance perception performances on various tasks, especially strong generalization to unseen scenarios, while maintaining favorable model cost and scalability.

Image and Video Processing
2608.12944
2 days ago

CardioState-JEPA: Delay-Aware Cross-Modal Learning of a Shared Cardiac Representation

Hamza Shafiq, Hung Manh Pham, Bin Zhu +3

Electrocardiography (ECG), photoplethysmography (PPG), and phonocardiography (PCG) provide complementary views of the same cardiac cycle, yet existing cardiac foundation models are trained for a single sensing modality, leaving the shared physiology across sensors unexploited. We introduce CardioState-JEPA, a cardiac foundation model to learn a single shared representation jointly across ECG, PPG, and PCG, built on a physiology-aware joint-embedding predictive architecture. The model maps heterogeneous waveforms into a common token space, processes them with a single shared Transformer encoder, and learns by predicting masked latent cardiac states, placing the pretraining target on shared physiology rather than sensor-specific waveform appearance. To handle the temporal offsets between electrical, mechanical, and hemodynamic events, cross-modal prediction uses a learned delay aligner that matches signals at the corresponding cardiac time. Because synchronized multi-sensor recordings are scarce, CardioState-JEPA first learns within-modality structure from abundant unimodal data and then uses paired data to align modalities in latent cardiac time. Evaluated as a frozen encoder across 25 downstream tasks spanning ECG, PPG, and PCG, our encoder improves average PPG classification by 8.2 AUROC points, PCG murmur detection by 18.8 AUROC points, and ECG classification by 15.5 AUROC points over the best self-supervised signal baseline and matches or exceeds cardiac models trained with privileged clinical text or supervised labels on several ECG benchmarks. These results establish that heterogeneous cardiac signals can mutually supervise a single foundation model of cardiac physiology.

Machine LearningImage and Video ProcessingMachine Learning
2608.12773
2 days ago

CW-BASS v2: Saturation-Aware Pseudo-Label Selection for Semi-Supervised Segmentation under Foundation-Model Teachers

Ebenezer Tarubinga

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation has long turned on one question, which pseudo-labels to trust, and a generation of selection rules, dynamic thresholds, per-class curricula, soft confidence weights, answered it for the noisy, under-confident ResNet teachers of their day. Self-supervised foundation encoders change the regime: with a DINOv2 teacher, confidence saturates, so the filtering that helped a weak teacher can hurt a strong one. We propose CW-BASS v2, a saturation-aware pseudo-label selection method that reads the teacher's confidence regime rather than committing to one rule. It pairs held-out calibration, an unbiased per-class noise estimate, with a self-adaptive confidence floor that provably bounds retention away from 1, and combines them in a one-pass gate: measure the reliability of the teacher's confident set, pi_kept = Pr[correct | c >= tau], on a held-out slice, and filter strictly when it meets the confidence demanded (pi_kept >= tau), falling back to the adaptive floor otherwise. The boundary is the pre-existing operating threshold, not a value tuned to mIoU, and across six DINOv2 teachers it makes the correct strict-vs-floor call blind. CW-BASS v2 thus recovers the UniMatch V2 operating point on the saturated benchmarks by selecting strict (Pascal VOC 1/8 87.4 against its reported 87.9; Cityscapes within 0.5), and improves on it where the confident set is unreliable (pi_kept ~ 89%, ADE20K), where the floor edges ahead (+1.5 mIoU, single seed). The gate is principled because the failure it avoids is measured, not assumed: on a reliable, saturated teacher the confidence distribution's dynamic range collapses (98% of Pascal pixels >= 0.95), so an adaptive cutoff floods the retention mask and self-training decays into confirmation bias.

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionMachine LearningImage and Video Processing
2608.12230
3 days ago

Few-Shot Ordinal Learning for Day-Wise Freshness Estimation with Hyperspectral Fish Images

Kazi Nabiul Alam, Pooneh Bagheri Zadeh, Akbar Sheikh-Akbari

Non-destructive food quality assessment has increasingly benefited from hyperspectral imaging (HSI), which captures spectral signatures linked to biochemical changes during storage. Estimating day-wise freshness, however, remains challenging owing to strong inter-fillet variability and scarce labelled data per product. All existing deep learning approaches for HSI-based freshness prediction operate under full supervision, requiring densely annotated training sets that are costly to obtain at the individual-product level. We introduce, to the best of our knowledge, the first few-shot learning framework for HSI-based food quality estimation. Each fillet defines a distinct episodic task, and a CORAL-style ordinal prediction head captures the ranked nature of freshness progression through cumulative threshold modelling. Biologically grounded monotonicity and embedding smoothness constraints further guide predictions toward plausible trajectories. On a 16-day salmon HSI dataset under a strict unseen-fillet protocol, our method achieves a mean absolute error of 1.58 days and 2-day accuracy of 72.3% with only three labelled days per fillet, substantially outperforming scalar regression and label-distribution baselines under an identical unseen-fillet protocol.

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionArtificial IntelligenceImage and Video Processing
2608.12227
3 days ago

Domain-Aware Lightweight Spectral-Grouped Convolutions for Hyperspectral Fish Freshness Classification

Kazi Nabiul Alam, Pooneh Bagheri Zadeh, Akbar Sheikh-Akbari

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) offers nondestructive assessment of fish freshness by detecting biochemical alterations across spectral bands. However, conventional deep learning approaches do not fully address the particular characteristics of HSI data, such as spectral dominance over spatial textures, ordinal label structure, and a small number of training samples. We propose SGNet (Spectral-Grouped Network), a lightweight architecture that separates spectral and spatial feature extraction using grouped convolutions and a depthwise spatial pathway. A dual attention mechanism that couples channel-wise squeeze-and-excitation with spatial gating adaptively highlights informative features. SGNet achieves 97.8% classification accuracy and 0.64 days mean absolute error (MAE) with just 4.75M parameters when tested on our newly developed 16-day refrigerator-stored salmon fillet dataset. Ablation studies validate the contribution of each component, while comparisons demonstrate a five- to eighteen-fold parameter reduction relative to ResNet-50 and Vision Transformers. Our findings indicate that domain-aware design supports precise, real-time freshness prediction for industrial implementation.

Image and Video ProcessingArtificial IntelligenceComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition
2608.11845
3 days ago

ResPCC: A Loss-Resilient Neural Point Cloud Codec over Lossy Networks

Xueqin Niu, Mufan Liu, Yifan Wang +3

Point cloud compression (PCC) is critical for efficient storage and transmission of 3D data. While recent learning-based PCC methods achieve good rate-distortion (R-D) performance, they generally rely on ideal transmission conditions. In practice, packet loss is a common issue and can severely distort latent features, causing coordinate drift and geometric degradation. To address this challenge, we present ResPCC, the first end-to-end neural point cloud codec designed to offer intrinsic resilience against data loss. Our framework is loss-rate-aware and adapts to diverse packet loss conditions. At the encoder, we introduce a Condition-Adaptive Latent Modulation (CALM) module to adjust latent feature distributions according to the perceived loss rate, as well as a Spatial-Channel Interleaving (SCI) mechanism that transforms channel-wise data extinction into spatially scattered element-wise missing patterns. At the decoder, we develop a Mask-Aware Graph-based Latent Restoration (MGLR) module, followed by a Dictionary-based Refinement (DBR) stage to recover corrupted features and align them with canonical priors. Evaluations on ShapeNet and SemanticKITTI under 5% to 30% packet loss rates show that ResPCC consistently delivers superior stability and R-D performance over baselines. Our framework maintains high reconstruction fidelity under lossy conditions, providing a reliable solution for 3D data transmission over practical networks. Code is available at https://github.com/starrynight314/ResPCC.

Image and Video ProcessingMultimedia
2608.11762
3 days ago

A comparison of CNN architectures for Alzheimer's disease detection in single-view MRI scans

Hiram Zuniga, Ulises Orozco-Rosas, Kenia Picos

Alzheimer's disease is a leading cause of death with no cure. Therefore, early detection is critical to slow progression and preserve quality of life. Diagnosis relies on medical history, cognitive tests, physical exams, and MRI brain scans, making deep learning suitable for Alzheimer's classification. This work proposes a benchmark that evaluates ten different convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures (including ResNet, DenseNet, MobileNet, EfficientNet, and VGG family models) under the same held-out test split protocol. A two-stage transfer learning and full fine-tuning pipeline is introduced to perform training using a class-balanced subset (3,900 images) derived from the OASIS medical imaging dataset, comprising 86,437 single-view MRI brain scans labeled into four classifications of Alzheimer's disease: Non-Demented, Very Mild Dementia, Mild Dementia, and Moderate Dementia. The best results were achieved by VGG16, with a 0.9637 validation accuracy and a 0.9533 test accuracy score. A key finding documented in this work is the difficulty of classifying the transition from Non-Demented to Very Mild Demented stages, observed consistently across all ten architectures.

Image and Video ProcessingComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionMachine Learning
2608.11646
3 days ago

Hybrid-LUT: Channel-Aware Hybrid Lookup Table and Filtering for Efficient Image Denoising

Zhilin Ai, Boyu Li, Sidi Yang +5

Lookup table (LUT)-based image denoising methods have attracted increasing attention due to their high efficiency and hardware-friendly properties. However, existing RGB-LUT approaches require three identical LUTs to process RGB channels in parallel, resulting in large on-chip SRAM consumption. A simple alternative is to apply LUT processing only to the luminance (Y) channel in the YUV color space to reduce memory usage. However, this naive strategy leads to degraded restoration quality, since ignoring the chrominance (UV) channels introduces color distortion and residual artifacts. In this work, we propose Hybrid-LUT, a YUV-based asymmetric channel-processing framework that combines LUT and filtering in a unified design. Specifically, a multi-band LUT branch with pixel-level weight fusion is applied to the Y channel to recover fine textures, while lightweight filtering is used for the UV channels to maintain color consistency. This design reduces LUT storage by two-thirds compared with RGB-LUT methods while maintaining the same runtime throughput. Extensive experiments show that Hybrid-LUT achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance across multiple benchmarks with only 421 KB of storage. In particular, our method surpasses existing LUT-based denoising approaches by at least 0.63 dB CPSNR on real-world datasets, demonstrating its effectiveness for image denoising on resource-constrained edge devices. The project is available at https://github.com/Ai-ZL/Hybrid-LUT .

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionImage and Video Processing
2608.11607
3 days ago

Topology-Aware Query Selection for Surgical Instrument Instance Segmentation

Ze Zhang, Yang Zhang

Accurate foreground masks can still form an incorrect surgical-instrument instance set: duplicate, fragmented, merged, missed, or empty-frame predictions may preserve favorable pixel overlap while violating object identity and count. Final query selection is therefore a relational, variable-cardinality problem rather than a collection of independent candidate decisions. We evaluate topology-aware query selection, which represents the nonempty candidates of a fixed Mask2Former as a complete graph, learns relational candidate and pair representations, predicts set cardinality, and solves an exact structured subset problem. The formal comparison is the complete relational path versus a node-feature-matched path; it evaluates the combined effect of pairwise geometry, message passing, and the additional relational-path capacity, not an isolated component. On the sealed 22-case source test, all three discovery seeds supported instance-set performance improvement with segmentation fidelity and predefined technical-safety preservation: instance F1 increased by 0.0504--0.0612 and positive-frame set-failure rate decreased by 0.0848--0.1060. Direct ROBUST-MIPS transfer reproduced the complete result in all three seeds. Endoscapes supported only one of three seeds and therefore did not establish stable direct transfer. Taken together, the results support a bounded conclusion: the evaluated complete path improved coherent instance-set construction from fixed Mask2Former candidates in specified native-instance contracts, while stable cross-domain transfer and component-specific effects remain unestablished.

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionImage and Video Processing
2608.11565
3 days ago

Alignment of Similarity-Transformed Images Based on Fourier--Mellin Transform Using Auxiliary Function Method

Shinji Yamashita, Yuma Kinoshita, Hitoshi Kiya

This paper proposes an algorithm for estimating the similarity transformation, namely translation, scale, and rotation, between two images with subpixel accuracy. Image registration is a fundamental technique for aligning images acquired under different viewpoints and imaging conditions, and a representative approach based on maximizing discrete cross-correlation is the Fourier--Mellin registration. However, the Fourier--Mellin approach often fails to achieve sufficient alignment accuracy when subpixel-level estimation is required. The proposed method integrates (i) scale-and-rotation estimation from the Fourier magnitude spectrum in a log-polar representation and (ii) maximization of phase-only correlation based on the auxiliary function method. This integration enables a two-stage estimation procedure: it first estimates scale and rotation without being affected by translation, and then estimates translation with subpixel precision in the spatial domain using the corrected image pair. A simulation experiment on image pairs subjected to random similarity transformations demonstrates that the proposed method reduces estimation errors in scale, rotation, and translation compared with Fourier--Mellin-based registration methods using discrete cross-correlation.

Image and Video ProcessingComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition
2608.11562
3 days ago

From Synthesis to Removal: Physics-Grounded Reflection Simulation and Diffusion-Based Video Dereflection

Zepeng Wang, Jiagao Hu, Fuhao Li +3

Videos captured through glass often contain reflections that degrade visual quality and interfere with downstream vision tasks. Although single-image reflection removal has been extensively studied, video reflection removal remains largely underexplored due to the lack of paired video data, temporally coherent removal models, and dedicated evaluation benchmarks. We present a closed-loop framework that unifies physics-grounded reflection simulation, diffusion-based video dereflection, and benchmark evaluation. Our S2R-Synthesis pipeline generates paired reflected and reflection-free videos by performing physics-grounded augmentation in the structure space and rendering realistic reflected videos with a trained video diffusion renderer; the augmentation models key glass-related effects including roughness-induced blur, thickness-induced ghosting, and reflectance variation. Based on the synthesized data, we introduce S2R-Removal, the first diffusion-based video reflection removal model, which adapts a pretrained video diffusion prior through reflection-aware latent adaptation and one-step pixel-geometric refinement, recovering the clean transmission in a single denoising step. We further build S2R-Bench, the first benchmark for video reflection removal, supporting both full-reference evaluation and real-world human perceptual assessment. Experiments on S2R-Bench and multiple public image benchmarks demonstrate state-of-the-art performance and faster inference than even non-diffusion baselines, and validate the effectiveness of S2R-Synthesis. Project page: https://codingwzp.github.io/VideoDereflection_S2R.

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionArtificial IntelligenceImage and Video Processing
2608.11548
4 days ago

Boundary-Continuous Cross-Camera RGB Mapping via Hue-Split Model Trees

Yuma Kinoshita, Hitoshi Kiya

We propose a hue-split model-tree method for boundary-continuous cross-camera RGB mapping. Cross-camera RGB mapping aims to produce consistent color representations across cameras whose recorded RGB values differ due to sensor spectral sensitivities and image-signal processing pipelines. A common chart-based remedy is to estimate a single global affine color correction matrix (CCM), but such a global model cannot capture hue-specific discrepancies between cameras. To capture that behavior, we recursively partitions the source-camera color space along a scalar hue coordinate and builds an model tree that stores an affine CCM at every node. For fitting the node CCMs, we utilize a log-domain error objective. To prevent false contours that arise from hard hue splits, we further introduce a boundary-continuous formulation in which the prediction is obtained by blending the log-domain outputs of all node CCMs along the root-to-leaf path. The path-wise blending weights are optimized under a simplex constraint using both a chart-pair fitting loss and an explicit continuity regularizer defined on deterministic boundary prototype pairs placed just on either side of each learned hue threshold. We conducted an experiment on a Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II to Canon EOS 20D mapping using the Middlebury Registered Color Checker dataset. The results show that hue splitting substantially reduces log-RMSE over a single global affine CCM and that the proposed path blending with boundary prototype regularization simultaneously improves accuracy and suppresses chromaticity gaps at the learned hue thresholds across two illuminants and multiple exposure conditions.

Image and Video ProcessingComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition
2608.11537
4 days ago

Generative Semantic Segmentation via an Observable Semantic-Image Interface and Hierarchical Generator Evidence Alignment

Weize Cai, Yongqi Dong, Zhida Shao +1

Generative semantic segmentation exposes structured predictions as images, but direct color decoding is susceptible to color drift and boundary mixing, whereas latent-feature decoders that predict a separate output distribution may relegate the rendered image to an intermediate visualization. We present Semantic Prism, a conditional semantic-image generation-and-refinement framework with deterministic inference. A diffusion-distilled one-step generator renders a semantic RGB image; per-pixel distances from the rendered colors to a fixed class-color codebook define an explicit probabilistic interface. Hierarchical Generator Evidence Alignment spatially aligns multi-level generator features and uses a zero-initialized output projection to predict an additive residual in the interface logit space, retaining the image-defined interface as the reference for the final distribution. The interface and refined distributions further enable Contextual Interface--Hierarchy Disagreement (C-IHD), a fixed readout for ranking remaining pixel errors without an auxiliary predictor or additional forward pass. On the 500-image Cityscapes validation set, Semantic Prism achieves 72.07% mean intersection over union, 11.39 mIoU points above direct-interface decoding, with 0.41% expected calibration error. Matched-capacity ablations over three seeds support the benefit of jointly aligned multi-level evidence. A separately trained model attains 62.22% mIoU on BDD100K, while the Cityscapes-trained model reaches 46.89% mIoU under source-frozen transfer to the Adverse Conditions Dataset with Correspondences, without target-domain adaptation. Across all three datasets, C-IHD consistently improves the area under the precision--recall curve for pixel-error ranking over maximum softmax probability on the same segmentation predictions; on ACDC, it raises AUPR from 0.6580 to 0.7557.

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionArtificial IntelligenceMachine Learning
2608.11514
4 days ago

SinoDiff: Physics-Consistent Self-Supervised Diffusion for Unified Low-Dose to Standard-Dose PET Sinogram Recovery

Ghulam Nabi Ahmad Hassan Yar, Himashi Peiris, Sharna Jamadar +2

Low-dose positron emission tomography (LD-PET) reduces radiation exposure but leads to poor image quality and hinders diagnostic confidence. Existing supervised LD to standard-dose (SD) PET recovery methods often fail to generalise across dose variations, while dose-agnostic supervised methods require paired LD-SD data. Current self-supervised methods, although more flexible, typically produce inferior results, including loss of anatomical details and oversmoothing pathological features. These pose major limitations for practical applications. To overcome these limitations, we propose SinoDiff, a novel self-supervised, physics-consistent diffusion framework for the recovery of PET sinograms across multiple predefined dose levels. Unlike the noise simulation in traditional diffusion methods, SinoDiff integrates the PET acquisition model into the forward diffusion process via Poisson thinning, enabling physically consistent sampling/modelling of dose-dependent count statistics. During the reverse diffusion process, SinoDiff estimates the incremental change in PET signals from predefined dose levels. Therefore, SinoDiff is a single, unified model that requires no retraining across multiple dose levels. To consider the characteristics of PET sinogram, we incorporate a frequency-domain convolution to capture long-range dependencies across projection angles and detector bins. Experiments on [18F]-FDG and [18F]-FDOPA datasets demonstrate that SinoDiff achieves competitive performance against supervised and self-supervised baselines across multiple dose levels.

Image and Video Processing
2608.11335
4 days ago

Dual-Domain Cross-Modal Decoding for Clinical Text-Guided Medical Image Segmentation

Md Maklachur Rahman, Tracy Hammond

Clinical text can narrow down what to segment, but recent text-guided designs emphasize spatial alignment while overlooking frequency content that governs texture and boundaries. We propose Dual-Domain Cross-Modal Decoding (DD-CMD) for clinical text-guided pulmonary infection segmentation, integrating two complementary forms of language guidance during decoding. In the spatial domain, Text-Guided Spatial Cross-Attention (TGSA) aligns multi-scale visual tokens with text semantics and updates features through gated residual fusion. In the frequency domain, Spectral-Text Adaptive Modulation (STAM) applies a 2D DCT to compute learnable band-energy statistics and predicts text-conditioned FiLM parameters to recalibrate decoder channels for frequency-aware decoding. DD-CMD embeds TGSA and STAM into a coarse-to-fine decoder (7x7 to 56x56) and restores full-resolution masks using a lightweight two-stage refinement module. Experiments on QaTa-COV19 and MosMedData+ show that DD-CMD achieves 91.46% Dice / 84.26% mIoU and 81.95% Dice / 69.42% mIoU, respectively, with average gains of +1.96 Dice and +2.67 mIoU over the strongest prior baselines. Code: https://github.com/maklachur/DD-CMD.

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionArtificial IntelligenceImage and Video Processing
2608.11288
4 days ago

Uncertainty-Aware Compositional Localization and Placement Assessment of Catheters and Tubes in Chest X-Rays

Harshil Lodhiya

Assessing catheter and tube placement on chest X-rays is safety-critical yet tedious and error-prone. Current deep learning methods either classify placement globally -- losing track of which device is where -- or segment all devices into a single mask, making per-device assessment impossible when catheters overlap. We introduce UCompCXR, a compositional framework that detects local catheter fragments, associates them into device instances via graph-based clustering, fuses per-fragment tip predictions through precision-weighted Gaussian estimation, and classifies placement per device. On the RANZCR CLiP dataset (30,083 images, 5-fold patient-level CV with bootstrap CIs), UCompCXR detects 26% more devices than a strong multi-task baseline sharing the same MobileNetV3 backbone, with 75% fewer false positives and well-calibrated tip uncertainty (95% coverage = 0.948). The aggregate tip error rises -- but only because the model finds devices the baseline misses entirely, especially nasogastric tubes. On matched devices, catastrophic localization failures drop substantially. At 2.27M parameters in a single forward pass, the model is deployable on resource-constrained clinical hardware.

Image and Video ProcessingComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionMachine Learning
2608.10846
4 days ago

An Information Theory Analysis of Whole Slide Image Pathology AI and Diagnostic Field Selection AI Under Limited Resources

Tatsuaki Tsuruyama

A key issue in using AI for pathology diagnosis is what image information should be given to the AI and how limited analysis resources should be used. This study compares two ways of processing different types of images under limited resources. The first is WSI-AI, in which AI automatically compresses information from the whole slide image (WSI). The second is Diagnostic Field Selection (DFS)-AI in which an expert first selects several regions, magnifications, and comparisons needed for diagnosis, and the AI then analyzes those selected fields. To compare these two types, we built three image models: a rarely localized lesion, lesion detection in a nonuniform background, and a spatially continuous lesion. As a result, WSI-AI was better when a coarse view did not give enough information about lesion location in advance, as may occur with very small tumor foci in lymph nodes. In contrast, when a low-cost coarse view provided useful location information, DFS-AI was better in an intermediate range of limited resources. When searching for a specific object such as infectious organism in a nonuniform background, the relative value of DFS-AI increased. For spatially continuous lesions, WSI-AI found the presence of a lesion more easily as the lesion became larger. However, for complete characterization of the entire lesion, DFS-AI could be better because it used the continuous structure to select fields for analysis. In conclusion, both relative performance changes in a systematic way with location information from the coarse view, background heterogeneity, local context, and the spatial structure of the lesion. A practical strategy under limited resources is for physicians to choose between WSI-AI and DIS-AI according to the information structure of the diagnostic task.

Quantitative MethodsImage and Video Processing
2608.11282
4 days ago

Physics-Informed Implicit Neural Representations for Improved Myocardial Perfusion MRI Quantification

Christos Tsepas, Chang Yan, Maximilian Fuetterer +2

Quantifying myocardial perfusion from cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) can be achieved by fitting tracer-kinetic models to the dynamic contrast-enhanced MR data. However, fitting the observed data with multi-compartment exchange models, which describe the evolution of the contrast agent in the tissue, to estimate perfusion parameters is a challenging inverse problem that is sensitive to noise and acquisition variability. Previously, physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have been proposed as an alternative to conventional non-linear least squares fitting methods with promising results for quantitative perfusion CMR. In this work, we extend the previously proposed PINN framework with spatiotemporal implicit neural representations (INRs) to represent the MR signal as a continuous spatiotemporal function and to improve the accuracy, smoothness, and physical consistency of the PINN model. In realistic simulated CMR datasets, our proposed PINN with INRs demonstrates improved robustness and parameter estimation accuracy over the previously established methods. The code is available at https://github.com/q-cardIA/pinn-inr.

Image and Video ProcessingArtificial IntelligenceMachine Learning
2608.11280
4 days ago

Uncertainty-Aware and Explainable Ensemble Deep Learning Framework for Multi-Class Skin Lesion Classification

Rofiqul Islam, Lilatul Ferdouse

Skin cancer diagnosis from dermoscopic images remains challenging due to high intra-class variability, inter-class similarity, class imbalance, and the limited interpretability of deep learning models. This paper proposes an uncertainty-aware and explainable deep learning framework for multi-class skin lesion classification. The framework combines a vision transformer model (MaxViT-Tiny) with CNN-based models (ConvNeXt-Tiny and EfficientNetV2-B0) through deep ensemble learning. Monte Carlo (MC) Dropout estimates predictive uncertainty and identifies unreliable predictions, while Grad-CAM++, an explainable AI (XAI) technique, provides visual explanations by highlighting lesion regions that influence model decisions. Evaluated on the HAM10000 dataset, the framework achieves 96% accuracy and 99% ROC-AUC under uncertainty-aware filtering (entropy < 1.0, confidence >= 0.7), with macro-average precision, recall, and F1-score of 94%, 95%, and 95%, respectively, and 96% weighted-average scores across all three metrics. The results demonstrate accurate, interpretable, and uncertainty-aware skin lesion classification for trustworthy computer-aided diagnosis.

Image and Video ProcessingArtificial IntelligenceComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition