Image Segmentation

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SegKAN: High-Resolution Medical Image Segmentation with Long-Distance Dependencies

Hepatic vessels in computed tomography scans often suffer from image fragmentation and noise interference, making it difficult to maintain vessel integrity and posing significant challenges for vessel segmentation. To address this issue, we propose an innovative model: SegKAN. First, we improve the conventional embedding module by adopting a novel convolutional network structure for image embedding, which smooths out image noise and prevents issues such as gradient explosion in subsequent stages. Next, we transform the spatial relationships between Patch blocks into temporal relationships to solve the problem of capturing positional relationships between Patch blocks in traditional Vision Transformer models. We conducted experiments on a Hepatic vessel dataset, and compared to the existing state-of-the-art model, the Dice score improved by 1.78%. These results demonstrate that the proposed new structure effectively enhances the segmentation performance of high-resolution extended objects. Code will be available at https://github.com/goblin327/SegKAN
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Confidence-Calibrating Regularization for Robust Brain MRI Segmentation Under Domain Shift

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits strong zero-shot performance on natural images but suffers from domain shift and overconfidence when applied to medical volumes. We propose \textbf{CalSAM}, a lightweight adaptation framework that (i) reduces encoder sensitivity to domain shift via a \emph{Feature Fisher Information Penalty} (FIP) computed on 3D feature maps and (ii) penalizes overconfident voxel-wise errors through a \emph{Confidence Misalignment Penalty} (CMP). The combined loss, LCalSAM\mathcal{L}_{\mathrm{CalSAM}} fine-tunes only the mask decoder while keeping SAM's encoders frozen. On cross-center and scanner-shift evaluations, CalSAM substantially improves accuracy and calibration: e.g., on the BraTS scanner split (Siemens→\toGE) CalSAM shows a +7.4%+7.4\% relative improvement in DSC\mathrm{DSC} (80.1% vs.\ 74.6%), a −26.9%-26.9\% reduction in HD95\mathrm{HD95} (4.6 mm vs.\ 6.3 mm), and a −39.5%-39.5\% reduction in ECE\mathrm{ECE} (5.2% vs.\ 8.6%). On ATLAS-C (motion corruptions), CalSAM achieves a +5.3%+5.3\% relative improvement in DSC\mathrm{DSC} (75.9%) and a −32.6%-32.6\% reduction in ECE\mathrm{ECE} (5.8%). Ablations show FIP and CMP contribute complementary gains (p<0.01p<0.01), and the Fisher penalty incurs a modest ∼\sim15% training-time overhead. CalSAM therefore delivers improved domain generalization and better-calibrated uncertainty estimates for brain MRI segmentation, while retaining the computational benefits of freezing SAM's encoder.