Decouple and Reason: Anatomically Guided Two-Stage Voxel-Level Grounding of Free-Text Findings in 3D Chest CT

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12602v1
• Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:26:14 GMT
• Title: Decouple and Reason: Anatomically Guided Two-Stage Voxel-Level Grounding of Free-Text Findings in 3D Chest CT
• Abstract summary: Grounding of free-text findings in 3D chest Computed Tomography (CT) is critical for clinical interpretability.<n>We propose a novel decoupled framework that disentangles the problem into two specialized stages: class-agnostic lesion segmentation and text-volume reasoning.<n>Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance in overall grounding quality on the official leaderboard.
• Score: 4.758987047240808
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Automatic voxel-level grounding of free-text findings in 3D chest Computed Tomography (CT) is critical for clinical interpretability. However, this task remains highly challenging due to the intricate spatial complexity of large 3D volumes and the heterogeneity of free-text findings. Existing end-to-end approaches often struggle to simultaneously learn the localized feature representations required for accurate 3D segmentation and the complex semantic understanding needed for text alignment, leading to suboptimal grounding performance. To overcome this fundamental limitation, we propose a novel decoupled framework that disentangles the problem into two specialized stages: (1) class-agnostic lesion segmentation and (2) text-volume reasoning. This structural separation allows the model to first extract candidate sub-volumes by localizing potential abnormalities. Subsequently, intensive cross-modal reasoning is performed to align these localized sub-volumes with free-text medical findings. To resolve the spatial ambiguities inherent in local regions, the reasoning module is augmented with explicit anatomical guidance, utilizing relative spatial coordinates and lung lobe priors. Evaluated on the ReXGroundingCT benchmark, our method achieves state-of-the-art performance in overall grounding quality on the official leaderboard. These results demonstrate that decoupling detection from reasoning is a highly effective paradigm for handling the complexity of 3D medical visual grounding. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/khuhm/DAGG.

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