NeuroTS-Net: Multi-Class Semantic Segmentation of Pediatric Brain Tumors in Multi-Modal MRI

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16873v1
• Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:05:03 GMT
• Title: NeuroTS-Net: Multi-Class Semantic Segmentation of Pediatric Brain Tumors in Multi-Modal MRI
• Abstract summary: NeuroTS-Net is a three-dimensional encoder-decoder convolutional neural network architecture for semantic segmentation.<n>It incorporates a dual-scale raw-detail stream, adaptive low-resolution context selection, and detail-preserving multipath downsampling.<n>NeuroTS-Net was trained on the BraTS 2026 pediatric dataset without external data or pretrained weights.
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• Abstract: Pediatric brain tumors are a leading cause of cancer-related mortality in children, and their small, rare, and often low-contrast subregions make accurate manual delineation challenging. Reliable automated segmentation is therefore needed to support diagnosis, treatment planning, and response assessment. Accordingly, we introduce NeuroTS-Net, a three-dimensional encoder-decoder convolutional neural network architecture for multi-class semantic segmentation that incorporates a dual-scale raw-detail stream, adaptive low-resolution context selection, and detail-preserving multipath downsampling. These components preserve fine intensity and boundary information while efficiently modeling broader tumor context. NeuroTS-Net was trained on the BraTS 2026 pediatric dataset without external data or pretrained weights and evaluated against nnU-Net and MedNeXt under the same experimental protocol. NeuroTS-Net outperformed the baseline methods, achieving whole-tumor and tumor-core Dice scores of 0.938 and 0.937 on the internal validation set and 0.927 and 0.926 on the official challenge validation set. The code is open-sourced at: https://github.com/maenstru56/NeuroTS.

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