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Appendix
In this part, we provide detailed descriptions of previous abdominal organ segmentation datasets. The introductions of multi-organs Datasets will be developed in Sec. Annotations from the existing datasets are used if available. Acquisition details are different for each institution since they follow different clinical protocols in the clinical scenario. Images were reconstructed at the 2.5-5 mm section thickness with a standard FC08 convolutional kernel and a 400-500 mm reconstruction diameter.
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Man Has Pig Kidney Removed After Living With It for a Record 9 Months
With the demand for human donor organs desperately outstripping supply, scientists are working to see if genetically edited pig organs can bridge the gap. Leonardo Riella, medical director for kidney transplantation at Massachusetts General Hospital, checks on Tim Andrews after his pig kidney transplant. Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have removed a genetically engineered pig kidney from a 67-year-old New Hampshire man after a period of decreasing kidney function, the hospital confirmed to WIRED in a statement. The organ functioned for nearly nine months, longer than previous pig organ transplants, before it was removed on October 23. Tim Andrews received the pig kidney on January 25 after being on dialysis for more than two years due to end-stage kidney disease.
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A Optimization Algorithms
A.1 Proof of Monotonicity and Submodularity In Equation (3a), we stated the objective of the knapsack cover to be f Here, we prove that it is monotone submodular. We present this algorithm in Algorithm 3. Algorithm 3: Sequential Training with FNR constraint Input: FNR Here, we describe the hyperparameter grids for the lower bound baselines shown in Table 3. All datasets used in this paper (i.e. in Table 2) are publicly available, with the exception of All datasets used in this study have been deidentified and contain no offensive content. It consists of five questions selected from the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS-V1.1) The target is the patient's clinical ADHD status.
A Disease-Centric Vision-Language Foundation Model for Precision Oncology in Kidney Cancer
Tao, Yuhui, Zhao, Zhongwei, Wang, Zilong, Luo, Xufang, Chen, Feng, Wang, Kang, Wu, Chuanfu, Zhang, Xue, Zhang, Shaoting, Yao, Jiaxi, Jin, Xingwei, Jiang, Xinyang, Yang, Yifan, Li, Dongsheng, Qiu, Lili, Shao, Zhiqiang, Guo, Jianming, Yu, Nengwang, Wang, Shuo, Xiong, Ying
The non-invasive assessment of increasingly incidentally discovered renal masses is a critical challenge in urologic oncology, where diagnostic uncertainty frequently leads to the overtreatment of benign or indolent tumors. In this study, we developed and validated RenalCLIP using a dataset of 27,866 CT scans from 8,809 patients across nine Chinese medical centers and the public TCIA cohort, a visual-language foundation model for characterization, diagnosis and prognosis of renal mass. The model was developed via a two-stage pre-training strategy that first enhances the image and text encoders with domain-specific knowledge before aligning them through a contrastive learning objective, to create robust representations for superior generalization and diagnostic precision. RenalCLIP achieved better performance and superior generalizability across 10 core tasks spanning the full clinical workflow of kidney cancer, including anatomical assessment, diagnostic classification, and survival prediction, compared with other state-of-the-art general-purpose CT foundation models. Especially, for complicated task like recurrence-free survival prediction in the TCIA cohort, RenalCLIP achieved a C-index of 0.726, representing a substantial improvement of approximately 20% over the leading baselines. Furthermore, RenalCLIP's pre-training imparted remarkable data efficiency; in the diagnostic classification task, it only needs 20% training data to achieve the peak performance of all baseline models even after they were fully fine-tuned on 100% of the data. Additionally, it achieved superior performance in report generation, image-text retrieval and zero-shot diagnosis tasks. Our findings establish that RenalCLIP provides a robust tool with the potential to enhance diagnostic accuracy, refine prognostic stratification, and personalize the management of patients with kidney cancer.
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Appendix
In this part, we provide detailed descriptions of previous abdominal organ segmentation datasets. The introductions of multi-organs Datasets will be developed in Sec. Annotations from the existing datasets are used if available. Acquisition details are different for each institution since they follow different clinical protocols in the clinical scenario. Images were reconstructed at the 2.5-5 mm section thickness with a standard FC08 convolutional kernel and a 400-500 mm reconstruction diameter.
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Who Gets the Kidney? Human-AI Alignment, Indecision, and Moral Values
Dickerson, John P., Hosseini, Hadi, Khanna, Samarth, Pierce, Leona
The rapid integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) in high-stakes decision-making -- such as allocating scarce resources like donor organs -- raises critical questions about their alignment with human moral values. We systematically evaluate the behavior of several prominent LLMs against human preferences in kidney allocation scenarios and show that LLMs: i) exhibit stark deviations from human values in prioritizing various attributes, and ii) in contrast to humans, LLMs rarely express indecision, opting for deterministic decisions even when alternative indecision mechanisms (e.g., coin flipping) are provided. Nonetheless, we show that low-rank supervised fine-tuning with few samples is often effective in improving both decision consistency and calibrating indecision modeling. These findings illustrate the necessity of explicit alignment strategies for LLMs in moral/ethical domains.
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Robust Kidney Abnormality Segmentation: A Validation Study of an AI-Based Framework
de Boer, Sarah, Häntze, Hartmut, Venkadesh, Kiran Vaidhya, Buser, Myrthe A. D., Mamani, Gabriel E. Humpire, Xu, Lina, Adams, Lisa C., Nawabi, Jawed, Bressem, Keno K., van Ginneken, Bram, Prokop, Mathias, Hering, Alessa
Kidney abnormality segmentation has important potential to enhance the clinical workflow, especially in settings requiring quantitative assessments. Kidney volume could serve as an important biomarker for renal diseases, with changes in volume correlating directly with kidney function. Currently, clinical practice often relies on subjective visual assessment for evaluating kidney size and abnormalities, including tumors and cysts, which are typically staged based on diameter, volume, and anatomical location. To support a more objective and reproducible approach, this research aims to develop a robust, thoroughly validated kidney abnormality segmentation algorithm, made publicly available for clinical and research use. Validation is conducted using both proprietary and public test datasets, with segmentation performance quantified by Dice coefficient and the 95th percentile Hausdorff distance. Furthermore, we analyze robustness across subgroups based on patient sex, age, CT contrast phases, and tumor histologic subtypes. Our findings demonstrate that our segmentation algorithm, trained exclusively on publicly available data, generalizes effectively to external test sets and outperforms existing state-of-the-art models across all tested datasets. Subgroup analyses reveal consistent high performance, indicating strong robustness and reliability. The developed algorithm and associated code are publicly accessible at https://github. Introduction Kidney cancer has a global incidence rate of approximately 400,000 new cases annually, leading to 175,000 deaths [1]. It is often detected incidentally during imaging performed for unrelated medical reasons, most often in computed tomography (CT). Treatment options for suspected malignant kidney masses include radical and partial nephrectomy [2].
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Anatomy-constrained modelling of image-derived input functions in dynamic PET using multi-organ segmentation
Langer, Valentin, Tehlan, Kartikay, Wendler, Thomas
Accurate kinetic analysis of [$^{18}$F]FDG distribution in dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) requires anatomically constrained modelling of image-derived input functions (IDIFs). Traditionally, IDIFs are obtained from the aorta, neglecting anatomical variations and complex vascular contributions. This study proposes a multi-organ segmentation-based approach that integrates IDIFs from the aorta, portal vein, pulmonary artery, and ureters. Using high-resolution CT segmentations of the liver, lungs, kidneys, and bladder, we incorporate organ-specific blood supply sources to improve kinetic modelling. Our method was evaluated on dynamic [$^{18}$F]FDG PET data from nine patients, resulting in a mean squared error (MSE) reduction of $13.39\%$ for the liver and $10.42\%$ for the lungs. These initial results highlight the potential of multiple IDIFs in improving anatomical modelling and fully leveraging dynamic PET imaging. This approach could facilitate the integration of tracer kinetic modelling into clinical routine.
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Benchmarking Multi-Organ Segmentation Tools for Multi-Parametric T1-weighted Abdominal MRI
Tran, Nicole, Prasad, Anisa, Zhuang, Yan, Mathai, Tejas Sudharshan, Kim, Boah, Lewis, Sydney, Mukherjee, Pritam, Liu, Jianfei, Summers, Ronald M.
The segmentation of multiple organs in multi-parametric MRI studies is critical for many applications in radiology, such as correlating imaging biomarkers with disease status (e.g., cirrhosis, diabetes). Recently, three publicly available tools, such as MRSegmentator (MRSeg), TotalSegmentator MRI (TS), and TotalVibeSegmentator (VIBE), have been proposed for multi-organ segmentation in MRI. However, the performance of these tools on specific MRI sequence types has not yet been quantified. In this work, a subset of 40 volumes from the public Duke Liver Dataset was curated. The curated dataset contained 10 volumes each from the pre-contrast fat saturated T1, arterial T1w, venous T1w, and delayed T1w phases, respectively. Ten abdominal structures were manually annotated in these volumes. Next, the performance of the three public tools was benchmarked on this curated dataset. The results indicated that MRSeg obtained a Dice score of 80.7 $\pm$ 18.6 and Hausdorff Distance (HD) error of 8.9 $\pm$ 10.4 mm. It fared the best ($p < .05$) across the different sequence types in contrast to TS and VIBE.
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