GRASPing Anatomy to Improve Pathology Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03374v1
• Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:26:36 GMT
• Title: GRASPing Anatomy to Improve Pathology Segmentation
• Authors: Keyi Li, Alexander Jaus, Jens Kleesiek, Rainer Stiefelhagen,
• Abstract summary: We introduce GRASP, a modular plug-and-play framework that enhances pathology segmentation models.<n>We evaluate GRASP on two PET/CT datasets, conduct systematic ablation studies, and investigate the framework's inner workings.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Radiologists rely on anatomical understanding to accurately delineate pathologies, yet most current deep learning approaches use pure pattern recognition and ignore the anatomical context in which pathologies develop. To narrow this gap, we introduce GRASP (Guided Representation Alignment for the Segmentation of Pathologies), a modular plug-and-play framework that enhances pathology segmentation models by leveraging existing anatomy segmentation models through pseudolabel integration and feature alignment. Unlike previous approaches that obtain anatomical knowledge via auxiliary training, GRASP integrates into standard pathology optimization regimes without retraining anatomical components. We evaluate GRASP on two PET/CT datasets, conduct systematic ablation studies, and investigate the framework's inner workings. We find that GRASP consistently achieves top rankings across multiple evaluation metrics and diverse architectures. The framework's dual anatomy injection strategy, combining anatomical pseudo-labels as input channels with transformer-guided anatomical feature fusion, effectively incorporates anatomical context.

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