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arXiv:2608.11335v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical text can narrow down what to segment, but recent text-guided designs emphasize spatial alignment while overlooking frequency content that governs texture and boun
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医学图像分割任务中，临床文本常被用来辅助模型「聚焦」需要分割的区域。例如，放射报告中的描述可以提示算法关注特定器官或病灶。但近期文本引导的分割设计大多强调空间对齐——让文本特征与图像空间位置对应起来，却忽略了图像中的频率信息。频率信息恰恰承载着纹理、边界等对分割精度至关重要的视觉线索。arXiv
针对这一空白，该研究提出了「双域跨模态解码」框架。其核心思路是在解码阶段同时利用空间域与频域特征，让临床文本的引导不仅作用于「在哪里分割」，也作用于「依据什么纹理与边界特征来分割」。摘要指出，现有方法对频率内容的忽视可能限制分割的精细度，而双域设计试图从两个维度协同提升跨模态对齐能力。不过，原文摘要未提供具体的网络结构细节、实验数据集或量化结果，这些内容需查阅全文方可确认。arXiv
从方法学角度看，这一思路与医学图像分析中「多域特征融合」的长期趋势一致。频域分析在医学影像中并非新概念——纹理特征长期以来被用于组织分类与病灶边界识别。例如，在乳腺癌切缘检测的低倍荧光成像研究中，纹理分析与深度学习结合已被探索用于判断手术切缘是否残留肿瘤，说明纹理信息在临床图像任务中具有实际价值。arXiv 将频域显式纳入跨模态解码，可以视为对文本引导分割范式的补充，而非替代。
需要说明的是，该研究目前仅以预印本形式发布，尚未经过同行评议。其宣称的性能优势、泛化能力以及在真实临床流程中的适用性，均有待独立验证。对于临床部署而言，算法层面的改进距离实际应用仍有相当距离，相关结论需经专业医学影像团队评估后方可判断其临床意义。
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arXiv:2608.11335v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical text can narrow down what to segment, but recent text-guided designs emphasize spatial alignment while overlooking frequency content that governs texture and boundaries. We propose Dual-Domain Cross-Modal Decoding (DD-CMD) for clinical text-guided pulmonary infection segmentation, integrating two complementary forms of language guidance during decoding. In the spatial domain, Text-Guided Spatial Cross-Attention (TGSA) aligns multi-scale visual tokens with text semantics and updates features through gated residual fusion. In the frequency domain, Spectral-Text Adaptive Modulation (STAM) applies a 2D DCT to compute learnable band-energy statistics and predicts text-conditioned FiLM parameters to recalibrate decoder channels for frequency-aware decoding. DD-CMD embeds TGSA and STAM into a coarse-to-fine decoder (7x7 to 56x56) and restores full-resolution masks using a lightweight two-stage refinement module. Experiments on QaTa-COV19 and MosMedData+ show that DD-CMD achieves 91.46% Dice / 84.26% mIoU and 81.95% Dice / 69.42% mIoU, respectively, with average gains of +1.96 Dice and +2.67 mIoU over the strongest prior baselines. Code: https://github.com/maklachur/DD-CMD.