Lite ENSAM: a lightweight cancer segmentation model for 3D Computed Tomography

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01600v1
• Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:01:45 GMT
• Title: Lite ENSAM: a lightweight cancer segmentation model for 3D Computed Tomography
• Abstract summary: We present Lite ENSAM, a lightweight adaptation of the ENSAM architecture designed for efficient volumetric tumor segmentation from CT scans annotated with RECIST annotations.<n> Lite ENSAM was submitted to the MICCAI FLARE 2025 Task 1: Pan-cancer in CT Scans, Subtask 2, where it achieved a Similarity Coefficient (DSC) of 60.7% and a Normalized Surface Dice (NSD) of 63.6%.
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• Abstract: Accurate tumor size measurement is a cornerstone of evaluating cancer treatment response. The most widely adopted standard for this purpose is the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) v1.1, which relies on measuring the longest tumor diameter in a single plane. However, volumetric measurements have been shown to provide a more reliable assessment of treatment effect. Their clinical adoption has been limited, though, due to the labor-intensive nature of manual volumetric annotation. In this paper, we present Lite ENSAM, a lightweight adaptation of the ENSAM architecture designed for efficient volumetric tumor segmentation from CT scans annotated with RECIST annotations. Lite ENSAM was submitted to the MICCAI FLARE 2025 Task 1: Pan-cancer Segmentation in CT Scans, Subtask 2, where it achieved a Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) of 60.7% and a Normalized Surface Dice (NSD) of 63.6% on the hidden test set, and an average total RAM time of 50.6 GBs and an average inference time of 14.4 s on CPU on the public validation dataset.

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