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Duke Spark - Medical Imaging AI
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Duke AI Health Initiative for Medical Imaging. We gather technical and clinical experts at Duke University to develop algorithms for analysis of medical images.
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The Duke University Cervical Spine MRI Segmentation Dataset (CSpineSeg) is online!
November 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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New paper accepted in npj Breast Cancer!

Breast density in MRI: a standardized pipeline for volumetric quantification and its relationship to mammographic assessment
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Medical Image Segmentation with InTEnt: Integrated Entropy Weighting for Single Image Test-Time Adaptation

Single-image test-time adaptation is a compelling way to keep medical image segmentation models robust when scanners, protocols, or sites change.
October 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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ContourDiff: Unpaired Medical Image Translation with Structural Consistency

Medical image translation—such as CT → MRI—is transforming how we harmonize imaging data for segmentation, diagnosis, and AI model development.
October 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Rethinking Pulmonary Embolism Segmentation

Pulmonary embolism (PE) segmentation has been an active area of research, with many studies reporting steady progress through new architectures, transformer designs, and pretraining strategies.
October 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Convolutional Neural Network Rarely Learn Shape for Semantic Segmentation

Shape is a robust visual feature that is easily recognized by the human eye. In medical imaging, many regions of interest (ROIs) share similar shapes yet models often struggle due to significant domain
October 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Foundation models like SAM and MedSAM have shown promise in medical imaging, but none are truly built for MRI. Training new models still requires large amounts of labeled data — a major bottleneck.
September 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Body composition is increasingly recognized as a window into a patient’s overall health and frailty. Metrics like skeletal muscle index, muscle density, and visceral-to-subcutaneous fat ratios have been shown to predict outcomes ranging from short- and long-term
September 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Breast MRI registration struggles with highly deformable anatomy, especially dense fibroglandular tissue that matters clinically as it shifts with patient positioning and respiration, causing local misalignment precisely where radiologists and algorithms need max precision
September 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Introducing Anatomically-Controllable Medical Image Generation with Segmentation-Guided Diffusion Models: SegGuidedDiff
September 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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SLM-SAM 2: Accelerating Medical Image Annotation via Short-Long Memory SAM 2

Manual Annotation of volumetric medical images is labor-intensive and time-consuming. Although foundation models like SAM 2 enable mask propagation but rely on a single memory bank,
August 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Are you looking for a tool to speed up your labor-intensive medical image annotation processes? Our SegmentHumanBody extension is now available with multiple models on 3D Slicer now!

GitHub: github.com/mazurowski-l...
August 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Looking for publicly available muscle and fat CT segmentation model? Check out our new nn-Unet-based model for segmentation of skeletal muscle, subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT), and visceral adipose tissue (VAT) across the chest, abdomen, and pelvis area in axial CT images.
August 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Are Vision Foundation Models Ready for Out-of-the-Box Medical Image Registration?

Foundation models like SAM and DINO-v2 are making waves across computer vision, with growing interest in their zero-shot registration performance.
August 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Introducing Fréchet Radiomic Distance (FRD): A Versatile Metric for Comparing Medical Imaging Datasets, led by
@nickkonz.bsky.social and Richard Osuala.

Our paper can be found at arxiv.org/abs/2412.01496, and you can easily compute FRD yourself with our code at github.com/RichardObi/f...
August 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM