Implicit Fuzzification via Bounded Noise Injection for Robust Medical Image Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04427v1
• Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:17:15 GMT
• Title: Implicit Fuzzification via Bounded Noise Injection for Robust Medical Image Segmentation
• Abstract summary: NoiseUNet injects bounded perturbations into skip connections to regularize cross-scale feature fusion.<n>Experiments demonstrate that NoiseUNet consistently improves both segmentation accuracy and boundary fidelity.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Image segmentation remains fundamentally limited by boundary ambiguity arising from sampling-induced information loss and inherent uncertainty in pixel-wise labeling. Although encoder-decoder architectures such as U-Net achieve strong performance, they often produce overconfident predictions that fail to capture transition-region ambiguity. To address this issue, we propose \textbf{NoiseUNet}, a simple yet effective framework that injects bounded perturbations into skip connections to regularize cross-scale feature fusion. This mechanism enforces robustness to local feature variations and promotes boundary-aware representations. Theoretically, the perturbation induces an implicit fuzzification effect, yielding soft, data-driven memberships without requiring explicit fuzzy modeling. We further introduce \textbf{ThyR}, a real-world thyroid ultrasound dataset with inherently ambiguous boundaries. Experiments demonstrate that NoiseUNet consistently improves both segmentation accuracy and boundary fidelity.

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