Ultrasound Image Segmentation

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Ultrasound image segmentation identifies anatomical structures and lesions in noisy images, supporting measurements, diagnosis, and procedures. Common approaches include U-Net-style convolutional models, attention and transformer or state-space networks, and ultrasound-adapted foundation models; semi-supervised learning and pseudo-labeling aim to reduce the need for pixel-level annotations. Work also uses video consistency, anatomical or boundary constraints, and domain adaptation to improve results across frames, devices, and clinical sites. A central challenge is making masks reliable under domain shift and uncertainty, since high overlap scores can conceal boundary errors that affect clinical measurements.

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  1. A General-Purpose Dual-Path Interaction Framework for Multi-View Medical Image Segmentation: Alleviating Data Volume Dependency in Small-Sample Regimes

    Oct 22, 2026Shuhuan Wang, Yuanyuan Cui, Pengju Wang +10Medical Image SegmentationFew-Shot Medical Image Segmentation

    College of Medicine and Biological Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110169, China · Department of Ultrasound, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110000, China · Department of Cardiology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University +1

  2. MoWE: Spatially Adaptive Mixture-of-Wavelet-Experts Pooling for Ultrasound Lesion Segmentation

    Oct 18, 2026Reaz Hassan Joarder, Sidratul Tanzila Tasmi, Alif Arshad Bakshi +2Ultrasound Image SegmentationMixture of Experts

    Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh · United International University, Bangladesh

  3. FETALFusion: Resolution-Aware State-Space Modeling for Multi-Domain Fetal Head Segmentation

    Oct 13, 2026Ammar Bhilwarawala, Mainak BandyopadhyayMedical Image SegmentationUltrasound Image Segmentation

    School of Computer Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University Bhubaneswar, India

  4. Thyroid Nodule Segmentation in Ultrasound Images with Conformal Uncertainty Estimation

    Oct 9, 2026Francesco Teodori, Pierpaolo Brutti, Umberto Ferraro PetrilloUltrasound Image SegmentationMedical Image Segmentation

    Department of Statistical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

  5. Topology-Informed Prompt-Conditioned Universal Segmentation of Uterine Structures from Ultrasound and MRI

    Oct 5, 2026Yongheng Sun, Yuexi Gu, Jingwen Sun +2Ultrasound Image SegmentationCross-Modality Medical Image Segmentation

    Department of Radiology and BRIC, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

  6. ThyCLIPNet: A BiomedCLIP-Guided Lightweight Attention-Enhanced DeepLabV3+ Framework for Robust Thyroid Nodule Segmentation

    Oct 3, 2026Tasnim Jahan, Md Easin Arafat, Swakkhar ShatabdaUltrasound Image SegmentationMedical Image Segmentation

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United International University, United City, Madani Ave, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh · Faculty of Informatics, Institute of Industry-Academia Innovation, Department of Data Science and Engineering, Eötvös Lor´and University, P´azm´any P´eter S´et´any 1/C, Budapest 1117, Hungary · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BRAC University, Pragati Sarani, Merul Badda, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh

  7. UltraG-Bench: A Multi-task Benchmark for assessing Large Vision-Language Models on Pixel-level Evidence Grounding in Ultrasound

    Sep 25, 2026Quanhao Zhu, Bo Xu, Rui Lin +7Medical VLMsMedical Image Grounding

    Dalian University of Technology · RMIT University

  8. UltraBench 2: Towards Robust Evaluation of Vision Foundation Models on Ultrasound

    Sep 23, 2026Ashwath Radhachandran, Adam Tupper, Christian Gagné +1Ultrasound Image SegmentationMedical Imaging Foundation Models

    Bioengineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles · Institut Intelligence et Données (IID), Université Laval Mila – Quebec AI Institute · Radiological Sciences Department, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

  9. CLC-YOLO: A Compact Channel-Gated Prototype Network for Real-Time Leakage-Aware Breast Ultrasound Lesion Segmentation

    Sep 19, 2026M. Fazri Nizar, Muhammad Naufal Rachmatullah, Julian SupardiUltrasound Image SegmentationChannel Attention

    Department of Informatics Engineering, Universitas Sriwijaya, Palembang, South Sumatera

  10. FreqDINO++: A Frequency-Guided Multi-Task Routing Vision Foundation Model for Universal Ultrasound Analysis

    Sep 17, 2026Qing Xu, Yixuan Zhang, Yue Li +7Ultrasound Image SegmentationMedical Imaging Foundation Models

    School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China · School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China · School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG72RD, UK +3

  11. Open ultrasound foundation model for robust segmentation and clinical measurement across heterogeneous settings

    Sep 16, 2026Chao Qin, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Salman Khan +4Interactive Medical Image SegmentationUltrasound Image Segmentation

    Mohamed bin Zayed Uni. of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE. · Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Mohammed Medical City (STMC), Al Ain, UAE. · King’s College Hospital London - Dubai, Dubai, UAE. +1

  12. Evolving Error States: Failure-Aware Progressive Repair for Ultrasound Lesion Segmentation

    Sep 16, 2026Ziliang Wang, XuJiang Tang, Lu Yuting +4Medical Image SegmentationUltrasound Image Segmentation

    Central South University · Yangtze University · Chongqing University +2

  13. Physics-Guided Synthetic High-Frequency Ultrasound Generation for Skin Layer Segmentation

    Sep 11, 2026Junkyung ju, Kyungho Yoon, Minwoo ShinSynthetic Data PretrainingUltrasound Image Segmentation

    Department of Software, Yonsei University (Mirae Campus), Wonju, 26493, Republic of Korea · School of Mathematics and Computing, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea

  14. A Quantitative Evaluation Framework for Temporal Explainability in Echocardiographic Video Segmentation

    Sep 7, 2026Jiyoo Noh, Jonathan H. ChanUltrasound Image SegmentationExplainability Evaluation

    University of Toronto, Canada · King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand

  15. Expert-like Bone Ultrasound Segmentation through Expert-in-the-loop Mask-conditioned Progressive Learning

    Aug 31, 2026Arash Tavangar, Larissa K. Chiu, Hamidreza Khodashenas +2Interactive Medical Image SegmentationUltrasound Image Segmentation

    Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada · Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada · Division of Orthopedic Surgery, Department of Surgery, McGill University,2026 Montreal, QC, Canada

  16. UniFLM: United Segmentation and Measurement on Fetal Limb Ultrasonic Image

    Aug 27, 2026Zeen Zhou, Qiuhua Chen, Xiaojun Cao +3Ultrasound Image SegmentationMedical Image Segmentation

    Academy of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China · School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China · Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou, China +1

  17. Cross-Modal MRI Ovary Segmentation in Endometriosis Using Unpaired TVUS Prototype Priors

    Aug 19, 2026Xingjian Kang, Lina Felsner, Dominik Perrin +5Cross-Modality Medical Image SegmentationMedical Image Segmentation

    Center for AI and Data Science (CAIDAS), Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany · Institute for Computational Imaging and AI in Medicine (CompAI), Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany · Pattern Recognition Lab, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany +1

  18. Dual Co-Train: Cross-Dataset Ultrasound Tongue Segmentation Under Extreme Data Scarcity

    Aug 18, 2026Alisher Myrgyyassov, Zhen Song, Bruce Xiao Wang +4Ultrasound Image SegmentationSource-Free Domain Adaptation

    Department of Biomedical Engineering Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, China · Department of English and Communication Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, China · Department of Language Science and Technology Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, China +1

  19. MaLViL: Multi-axis Low-rank Vision-LSTM for Medical Image Segmentation

    Aug 18, 2026Afshin Bozorgpour, Sina Ghorbani Kolahi, Moein Heidari +2Medical Image SegmentationUltrasound Image Segmentation

    Faculty of Informatics and Data Science, University of Regensburg, Germany · Independent Computer Science Researcher, Tehran, Iran · University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada +1

  20. Zero-Shot Adaptation of Medical Vision Foundation Models for High-Frequency Micro-Ultrasound Prostate Segmentation

    Aug 14, 2026Ayusha Abbas, Saram Abbas, Kabita AdhikariUltrasound Image SegmentationMedical Image Segmentation

    Newcastle University Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

  21. VIDS-Seg: Towards Reliable Uncertainty Quantification in Pediatric Cardiac Ultrasound Segmentation

    Aug 11, 2026Paul Fischer, Ece OzkanUltrasound Image SegmentationUncertainty Quantification

    Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  22. BAP-MOS: Bandit-Based Adaptive Prompting for Boundary-Sensitive Multi-Organ Segmentation

    Aug 8, 2026Satvik Praveen, Shengji Jin, Ahmed Lamidi +2Ultrasound Image SegmentationPromptable Image Segmentation

    Computer Science & Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA · Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA

  23. UCBound-Net: Uncertainty-Guided Boundary-Aware Continual Learning for Domain-Incremental Ultrasound Segmentation

    Aug 2, 2026Mohammad Amanour RahmanUltrasound Image SegmentationContinual Learning

    Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  24. UltraSAM3: A Concept-Driven Foundation Model for Universal Ultrasound Image Segmentation

    Jul 31, 2026Bo Xu, Quanhao Zhu, Rui Lin +5Ultrasound Image SegmentationMedical Imaging Foundation Models

    School of Software Dalian University of Technology · School of Computing Technologies RMIT University · Dalian University of Technology Affiliated Center Hospital

  25. Learning-based Hierarchical Tracheal Anatomy Understanding from Sparse Surgical Demonstration Annotations for Ultrasound Robots

    Jul 24, 2026Hiu Ching Cheung, Wenchao Yue, Zhengran Han +4Ultrasound Image SegmentationPromptable Image Segmentation

    Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom · Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hong Kong Institute of Science and Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hong Kong, China +1

  26. Risk-Routed Implicit Boundary Refinement for Robust Ultrasound Image Segmentation

    Jul 23, 2026Jingguo Qu, Xinyang Han, Xiang Wang +8Ultrasound Image SegmentationImplicit Neural Representations

    Department of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China · Centre for Smart Health and School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China · Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  27. Domain Shift in Echocardiography: Interpretable Quantification and Prediction of Cross-Dataset Left Ventricular Segmentation

    Jul 22, 2026Soroush Elyasi, Nasim Dadashi Serej, Julie Wall +1Ultrasound Image SegmentationDistribution Shift

    THRIVE Centre, School of Computing and Engineering, University of West London, London, UK · School of Computing and Engineering, University of West London, London, UK

  28. OvAi Focus: AI-based Multi-class Segmentation of Functional Ovaries and Adnexal Masses in Gynecological Ultrasound

    Jul 15, 2026Niccolò Tallone, Francesca Salis, Pio Raffaele Fina +13Ultrasound Image SegmentationMedical Image Segmentation

    SynDiag s.r.l., Turin, Italy · Academic Division of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Turin, Azienda Ospedaliera Ordine Mauriziano, Turin, Italy · University of Turin +5

  29. Automatic Echocardiography Segmentation via Transition Probability Correlation for Stable Semantic Extraction

    Jul 8, 2026Xinran Chen, Xiyuan Wang, Guangquan Zhou +1Ultrasound Image SegmentationSelf-Supervised Pre-Training

    School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

  30. An Edge-aware Prompt-enhanced SAM for Ultrasound Image Segmentation

    Jul 8, 2026Wenhao Li, Fangyi Liu, Bo DuUltrasound Image SegmentationPromptable Image Segmentation

    Key Laboratory of Aerospace Information Security and Trusted Computing, Ministry of Education, School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China