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Autores principales: Liu, Xiaoyu, Wei, Siwen, Qu, Linhao, Pan, Mingyuan, Zhang, Chengsheng, Shi, Yonghong, Song, Zhijian
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Publicado: 2026
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04607
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author Liu, Xiaoyu
Wei, Siwen
Qu, Linhao
Pan, Mingyuan
Zhang, Chengsheng
Shi, Yonghong
Song, Zhijian
author_facet Liu, Xiaoyu
Wei, Siwen
Qu, Linhao
Pan, Mingyuan
Zhang, Chengsheng
Shi, Yonghong
Song, Zhijian
contents Accurate segmentation of organs at risk in the head and neck is essential for radiation therapy, yet deep learning models often fail on small, complexly shaped organs. While hybrid architectures that combine different models show promise, they typically just concatenate features without exploiting the unique strengths of each component. This results in functional overlap and limited segmentation accuracy. To address these issues, we propose a high uncertainty region-guided multi-architecture collaborative learning (HUR-MACL) model for multi-organ segmentation in the head and neck. This model adaptively identifies high uncertainty regions using a convolutional neural network, and for these regions, Vision Mamba as well as Deformable CNN are utilized to jointly improve their segmentation accuracy. Additionally, a heterogeneous feature distillation loss was proposed to promote collaborative learning between the two architectures in high uncertainty regions to further enhance performance. Our method achieves SOTA results on two public datasets and one private dataset.
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spellingShingle HUR-MACL: High-Uncertainty Region-Guided Multi-Architecture Collaborative Learning for Head and Neck Multi-Organ Segmentation
Liu, Xiaoyu
Wei, Siwen
Qu, Linhao
Pan, Mingyuan
Zhang, Chengsheng
Shi, Yonghong
Song, Zhijian
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Accurate segmentation of organs at risk in the head and neck is essential for radiation therapy, yet deep learning models often fail on small, complexly shaped organs. While hybrid architectures that combine different models show promise, they typically just concatenate features without exploiting the unique strengths of each component. This results in functional overlap and limited segmentation accuracy. To address these issues, we propose a high uncertainty region-guided multi-architecture collaborative learning (HUR-MACL) model for multi-organ segmentation in the head and neck. This model adaptively identifies high uncertainty regions using a convolutional neural network, and for these regions, Vision Mamba as well as Deformable CNN are utilized to jointly improve their segmentation accuracy. Additionally, a heterogeneous feature distillation loss was proposed to promote collaborative learning between the two architectures in high uncertainty regions to further enhance performance. Our method achieves SOTA results on two public datasets and one private dataset.
title HUR-MACL: High-Uncertainty Region-Guided Multi-Architecture Collaborative Learning for Head and Neck Multi-Organ Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04607