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Main Authors: Jiang, Shuo, Hong, Yuhao, Jiang, Chunbo, Chen, Weihong, Chen, Huangwei, Zhu, Shenghao, Wu, Beining, Liu, Mingxuan, Zhu, Zhu, Qin, Feiwei, Tan, Min, Chen, Yifei
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22619
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  • Grounding radiology report descriptions to 3D CT volumes is essential for verifiable clinical interpretation, yet remains challenging due to the semantic-spatial gap between free-text narratives and volumetric anatomy. Existing report-assisted and vision-language grounding methods typically rely on phrase-level alignment or dense pixel supervision, resulting in limited lesion-wise correspondence and suboptimal localization accuracy. We propose GLeVE, a graph-guided lesion grounding framework with anatomical prior verification and octree-based autoregressive refinement. GLeVE treats each lesion description as an atomic semantic unit and encodes organ attribution, attributes, and inter-lesion relations through relation-aware graph reasoning to produce discriminative lesion-wise queries. Anatomy-aware proposal generation with region-level verification enforces one-to-one text-lesion alignment, while hierarchical octree refinement progressively improves boundary delineation. Experiments on AbdomenAtlas 3.0 demonstrate consistent gains over classical multimodal foundation models and report-supervised baselines in both segmentation accuracy and lesion-level localization.