Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wang, Pu, Mao, Zhixuan, Li, Jialu, Zheng, Zhuoran, Lu, Dianjie, Zhang, Youshan
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05482
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866910107586002944
author Wang, Pu
Mao, Zhixuan
Li, Jialu
Zheng, Zhuoran
Lu, Dianjie
Zhang, Youshan
author_facet Wang, Pu
Mao, Zhixuan
Li, Jialu
Zheng, Zhuoran
Lu, Dianjie
Zhang, Youshan
contents Automatic diagnosis of canine pneumothorax is challenged by data scarcity and the need for trustworthy models. To address this, we first introduce a public, pixel-level annotated dataset to facilitate research. We then propose a novel diagnostic paradigm that reframes the task as a synergistic process of signal localization and spectral detection. For localization, our method employs a Vision-Language Model (VLM) to guide an iterative Flow Matching process, which progressively refines segmentation masks to achieve superior boundary accuracy. For detection, the segmented mask is used to isolate features from the suspected lesion. We then apply Random Matrix Theory (RMT), a departure from traditional classifiers, to analyze these features. This approach models healthy tissue as predictable random noise and identifies pneumothorax by detecting statistically significant outlier eigenvalues that represent a non-random pathological signal. The high-fidelity localization from Flow Matching is crucial for purifying the signal, thus maximizing the sensitivity of our RMT detector. This synergy of generative segmentation and first-principles statistical analysis yields a highly accurate and interpretable diagnostic system (source code is available at: https://github.com/Pu-Wang-alt/Canine-pneumothorax).
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2604_05482
institution arXiv
publishDate 2026
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Unifying VLM-Guided Flow Matching and Spectral Anomaly Detection for Interpretable Veterinary Diagnosis
Wang, Pu
Mao, Zhixuan
Li, Jialu
Zheng, Zhuoran
Lu, Dianjie
Zhang, Youshan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Automatic diagnosis of canine pneumothorax is challenged by data scarcity and the need for trustworthy models. To address this, we first introduce a public, pixel-level annotated dataset to facilitate research. We then propose a novel diagnostic paradigm that reframes the task as a synergistic process of signal localization and spectral detection. For localization, our method employs a Vision-Language Model (VLM) to guide an iterative Flow Matching process, which progressively refines segmentation masks to achieve superior boundary accuracy. For detection, the segmented mask is used to isolate features from the suspected lesion. We then apply Random Matrix Theory (RMT), a departure from traditional classifiers, to analyze these features. This approach models healthy tissue as predictable random noise and identifies pneumothorax by detecting statistically significant outlier eigenvalues that represent a non-random pathological signal. The high-fidelity localization from Flow Matching is crucial for purifying the signal, thus maximizing the sensitivity of our RMT detector. This synergy of generative segmentation and first-principles statistical analysis yields a highly accurate and interpretable diagnostic system (source code is available at: https://github.com/Pu-Wang-alt/Canine-pneumothorax).
title Unifying VLM-Guided Flow Matching and Spectral Anomaly Detection for Interpretable Veterinary Diagnosis
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05482