PSP: Harnessing Position and Shape Priors for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Medical Image Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28799v1
• Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:10:12 GMT
• Title: PSP: Harnessing Position and Shape Priors for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Medical Image Segmentation
• Abstract summary: Few-Shot Medical Image (FSMIS) offers a powerful solution to data scarcity but struggles to generalize across different imaging modalities.<n>This performance collapse stems primarily from the drastic texture discrepancies between domains, which mislead models trained on source-specific intensity distributions.<n>We propose a novel framework that harnesses Position and Shape Priors (PSP) for cross-domain FSMIS.
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• Abstract: Few-Shot Medical Image Segmentation (FSMIS) offers a powerful solution to data scarcity but struggles to generalize across different imaging modalities. This performance collapse stems primarily from the drastic texture discrepancies between domains, which mislead models trained on source-specific intensity distributions. While existing methods attempt to align frequency or local texture features, they often fail to decouple semantic structure from domain-specific appearance. To address this, we identify a critical invariance: despite distinct imaging physics, the position and geometric shape of organs remain robustly consistent across modalities. Therefore, we propose a novel framework that harnesses Position and Shape Priors (PSP) for cross-domain FSMIS. Specifically, PSP first introduces a Position Coordinate Embedding (PCE) module to inject relative spatial coordinates for rapid organ localization. Subsequently, a Shape Prototype Modulation (SPM) module constructs domain-invariant structural prototypes via explicit shape priors, effectively filtering out texture noise. Furthermore, the Hybrid-Prototype Prediction (HPP) module adaptively calibrates the support prototype to the query feature distribution, mitigating feature misalignment. Extensive experiments on two public medical imaging datasets demonstrate that PSP significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods.

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