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B-MIM: Biased Masked Image Modeling for Generalizable Segmentation of Fine-Grained Anatomical Structures

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TL;DR - B-MIM is a self-supervised pretraining method that reduces global semantic alignment to make 3D CT encoders more sensitive to fine anatomical details. It improves cross-dataset segmentation of intricate structures while requiring only partial parameter updates during downstream training.

  • Modifies the iBOT objective to prioritize local patch reconstruction and high-frequency morphology.
  • Pretrains a 3D Swin Transformer on 9,955 abdominal CT studies curated from 17 public sources.
  • Improves topological fidelity (clDice) for liver vessel segmentation across datasets.
  • Achieves competitive tumor-segmentation Dice scores versus fully fine-tuned baselines while updating fewer parameters.

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B-MIM: Biased Masked Image Modeling for Generalizable Segmentation of Fine-Grained Anatomical Structures

arXiv cs.CV Sebastián González, Karen Sanchez, José M. Saavedra, Marcelo Pizarro, Bernard Ghanem 2026-08-25 arXiv:2608.24364
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TL;DR - B-MIM is a self-supervised pretraining method that reduces global semantic alignment to make 3D CT encoders more sensitive to fine anatomical details. It improves cross-dataset segmentation of intricate structures while requiring only partial parameter updates during downstream training.

  • Modifies the iBOT objective to prioritize local patch reconstruction and high-frequency morphology.
  • Pretrains a 3D Swin Transformer on 9,955 abdominal CT studies curated from 17 public sources.
  • Improves topological fidelity (clDice) for liver vessel segmentation across datasets.
  • Achieves competitive tumor-segmentation Dice scores versus fully fine-tuned baselines while updating fewer parameters.
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