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New unified model segments pancreatic tumors and organs from MRI scans

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Researchers have developed Pancreas-MedNeXt, a unified model designed to segment pancreatic tumors and surrounding organs at risk from MRI scans. This model utilizes a shared encoder-decoder architecture with multitask fine-tuning and an annotation-aware loss function to handle partially labeled data. In evaluations, Pancreas-MedNeXt demonstrated superior performance in segmenting the pancreas and tumors compared to existing methods, with notable improvements in Dice Similarity Coefficient scores. AI

IMPACT This model could streamline contouring for pancreatic cancer radiotherapy by providing a unified segmentation of tumors and organs at risk.

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New unified model segments pancreatic tumors and organs from MRI scans

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Zach Eidex, Mojtaba Safari, Kundan Thind, Parag J. Parikh, Zhen Tian, Xiaofeng Yang ·

    Segment Anything Pancreas: A Unified MRI Segmentation Model for Pancreatic Cancer Radiotherapy

    arXiv:2610.41063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: Limited tumor annotations and incomplete labels across MRI datasets hinder unified segmentation of pancreatic tumors and organs at risk (OARs) for MRI-guided radiotherapy. Purpose: We propose Pancreas-MedNeXt, a unified …

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