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ArticleNPJ digital medicine2025

Foundation model-guided multi-view semi-supervised CT segmentation of liver tumors in resource-constrained settings.

Yuchuan Jiang, Yao Du, Kai Xiong, Kuiyuan Huang, Tengzheng Li, Zhangyun Li, Morang Zhang, Xiaoning Gan, Qiang Li, Junjie Liang and 9 more

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Yuchuan Jiang *Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
Yao Du *Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
Kai XiongDepartment of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
Kuiyuan HuangDepartment of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
Tengzheng LiDepartment of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
Zhangyun LiDepartment of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
Morang ZhangDepartment of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
Xiaoning GanDepartment of Medical Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Qiang LiDepartment of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Junjie LiangDepartment of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Mingrong CaoDepartment of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Jian SunDepartment of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Junfu WangDepartment of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
Jinzhong DuanmuDepartment of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
Xueqin LiDepartment of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
Zhili WenDepartment of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
Qunguang JiangDepartment of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
Xin YuDepartment of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China. ndyfy09693@ncu.edu.cn.
Shangxiang ChenDepartment of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China. ndyfy09652@ncu.edu.cn.

Funding

Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation 2021A1515110083Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation 20212BAB206035Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation 20224BAB216065Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation 20232BAB206087Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation 20252BAC200580National Natural Science Foundation of China 82303287National Natural Science Foundation of China 82460484Science and Technology Program of Jiangxi Provincial Health Commission 202310295Science and Technology Program of Jiangxi Provincial Health Commission 202410173Young Talent Research Cultivation Fund of The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University YFYPY202231
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Abstract

We present a label-efficient pipeline for CT auto-segmentation in resource-constrained settings. The framework couples a semi-supervised segmentation backbone with a foundation model-guided regularizer to strengthen the learning from scarce annotations. To better exploit volumetric context, we introduce a multi-view collaborative learning procedure that performs view-specific inference to form a unified supervision signal that suppresses view-dependent noise and improves mask fidelity. We evaluate on a public CT benchmark with varying numbers of labeled scans. In the highly label-limited regime, the approach yields strong accuracy with average Dice 83.79% for the liver and 60.08% for the tumor using 20 labeled cases, outperforms existing segmentation methods. By reducing contouring from hours to seconds, improving small-structure recovery and boundary fidelity, and requiring no interactive prompts, the method offers a plug-and-play path to deployment and a reliable basis for downstream radiomics and longitudinal monitoring.

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PMCPMC12796375

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