Integrating Background Knowledge in Medical Semantic Segmentation with Logic Tensor Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22399v1
• Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:26:26 GMT
• Title: Integrating Background Knowledge in Medical Semantic Segmentation with Logic Tensor Networks
• Authors: Luca Bergamin, Giovanna Maria Dimitri, Fabio Aiolli,
• Abstract summary: We introduce Logic Networks (LTNs) to encode medical background knowledge using first-order logic (FOL) rules.<n>We evaluate our method on the task of segmenting the hippocampus in brain MRI scans.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image analysis, aiding medical decision-making by helping radiologists distinguish objects in an image. Research in this field has been driven by deep learning applications, which have the potential to scale these systems even in the presence of noise and artifacts. However, these systems are not yet perfected. We argue that performance can be improved by incorporating common medical knowledge into the segmentation model's loss function. To this end, we introduce Logic Tensor Networks (LTNs) to encode medical background knowledge using first-order logic (FOL) rules. The encoded rules span from constraints on the shape of the produced segmentation, to relationships between different segmented areas. We apply LTNs in an end-to-end framework with a SwinUNETR for semantic segmentation. We evaluate our method on the task of segmenting the hippocampus in brain MRI scans. Our experiments show that LTNs improve the baseline segmentation performance, especially when training data is scarce. Despite being in its preliminary stages, we argue that neurosymbolic methods are general enough to be adapted and applied to other medical semantic segmentation tasks.

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