Layer-wise Noise Guided Selective Wavelet Reconstruction for Robust Medical Image Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16162v1
• Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:03:32 GMT
• Title: Layer-wise Noise Guided Selective Wavelet Reconstruction for Robust Medical Image Segmentation
• Abstract summary: We proposeLayer-wise Noise-Guided Selective Wavelet Reconstruction (LNG-SWR)<n>During training, we inject small, zero-mean noise at multiple layers to learn a frequency-bias prior to steer representations away from noise-sensitive directions.<n>We then apply prior-guided selective wavelet reconstruction on the input/feature branch to achieve frequency adaptation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: Clinical deployment requires segmentation models to stay stable under distribution shifts and perturbations. The mainstream solution is adversarial training (AT) to improve robustness; however, AT often brings a clean--robustness trade-off and high training/tuning cost, which limits scalability and maintainability in medical imaging. We propose \emph{Layer-wise Noise-Guided Selective Wavelet Reconstruction (LNG-SWR)}. During training, we inject small, zero-mean noise at multiple layers to learn a frequency-bias prior that steers representations away from noise-sensitive directions. We then apply prior-guided selective wavelet reconstruction on the input/feature branch to achieve frequency adaptation: suppress noise-sensitive bands, enhance directional structures and shape cues, and stabilize boundary responses while maintaining spectral consistency. The framework is backbone-agnostic and adds low additional inference overhead. It can serve as a plug-in enhancement to AT and also improves robustness without AT. On CT and ultrasound datasets, under a unified protocol with PGD-$L_{\infty}/L_{2}$ and SSAH, LNG-SWR delivers consistent gains on clean Dice/IoU and significantly reduces the performance drop under strong attacks; combining LNG-SWR with AT yields additive gains. When combined with adversarial training, robustness improves further without sacrificing clean accuracy, indicating an engineering-friendly and scalable path to robust segmentation. These results indicate that LNG-SWR provides a simple, effective, and engineering-friendly path to robust medical image segmentation in both adversarial and standard training regimes.

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