Clinicians trace cephalometric radiographs following a structured anatomical workflow, yet no prior system encodes this into computation. We present a five-phase anatomy-guided pipeline producing confidence-weighted spatial priors that shape HRNet-W32 training, achieving 1.04 mm mean radial error on 25 landmarks across 1,502 radiographs from 7+ imaging devices. A training x inference prior matrix isolates the mechanism: anatomical priors maintain a 1% validation-to-test gap versus 88% without priors (1.94 mm), despite identical validation convergence. The matrix establishes that all trained models are inference-independent, the expanded architecture alone provides no benefit, random priors yield partial but unstable improvement (1.72 mm), and only image-specific anatomically correct priors produce the 1.04 mm result -- functioning as a training-time regularizer requiring no automated prior generation at deployment. Five-fold cross-validation (p=0.0015), patient-level permutation testing (p<0.0001, n=151), quantified Grad-CAM analysis (88% vs. 74% in-zone activation, p<0.001), and clinical measurement validation (skeletal classification kappa=0.79-0.84, zero Class II<->III reversals, ICC>0.95) provide converging evidence. Cross-domain experiments on echocardiography, cervical spine, and hand radiography support the hypothesis that prior effectiveness scales with the spatial entropy of the landmark distribution.
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology(卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院);Institute for AI in Medicine, University Hospital Essen(埃森大学医院人工智能医学研究所);University of Duisburg-Essen(杜伊斯堡-埃森大学);German Cancer Consortium (DKTK)(德国癌症联盟)
SecondOpinion: Anatomy-Aware Gated Reasoning for Efficient Medical Image Analysis
Center for Computational & Data Sciences, Independent University, Bangladesh(孟加拉国独立大学计算与数据科学中心);Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Independent University, Bangladesh(孟加拉国独立大学计算机科学与工程系);Graduate School of Engineering, University of Hyogo(兵库大学工程研究生院)
Interpretable Rheumatoid Arthritis Scoring via Anatomy-aware Multiple Instance Learning
Big Data Institute, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK(大数据研究所,人口健康系,牛津大学,牛津,英国);Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK(骨科、风湿病学和肌肉骨骼科学系,牛津大学,牛津,英国)
Automated Interpretable 2D Video Extraction from 3D Echocardiography
University of California, Los Angeles(加州大学洛杉矶分校);Kaiser Permanente Division of Research(凯撒医疗集团研究部);Cedars-Sinai Medical Center(西达赛西医学中心);Stanford University(斯坦福大学)
CADS: A Comprehensive Anatomical Dataset and Segmentation for Whole-Body Anatomy in Computed Tomography
Department of Quantitative Biomedicine, University of Zurich(定量生物医学系,苏黎世大学);ETH AI Center, ETH Zurich(ETH人工智能中心,苏黎世联邦理工学院);Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and University of Zurich(放射肿瘤科,苏黎世大学医院和苏黎世大学);Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich(医学系,苏黎世大学);Department of Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience Center, University Hospital Zurich and University of Zurich(神经科和临床神经科学中心,苏黎世大学医院和苏黎世大学);International School of Medicine, Istanbul Medipol University(国际医学院,伊斯坦布尔Medipol大学);School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich(计算、信息与技术学院,慕尼黑技术大学);Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich(诊断与介入神经放射科,医学与健康学院,慕尼黑技术大学);Department of Radiation Oncology, TUM University Hospital Rechts der Isar, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich(放射肿瘤科,慕尼黑技术大学医院Rechts der Isar,慕尼黑技术大学医学与健康学院);Institute of Radiation Medicine (IRM), Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU)(放射医学研究所(IRM),亥姆霍兹慕尼黑研究中心(HMGU));German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK), Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany(德国转化癌症研究联盟(DKTK),慕尼黑分部,德国);University Hospital Essen, Institute of Interventional and Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology(埃森大学医院,介入与诊断放射学及神经放射学研究所);University Hospital Essen, Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine(埃森大学医院,医学人工智能研究所);Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Pediatric Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Medical Center Rostock(诊断与介入放射学、儿童放射学及神经放射学研究所,罗斯托克大学医学中心);Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna(生物医学成像与图像引导治疗系,维也纳医科大学);Department of Radiology, University Hospital Basel(放射科,巴塞尔大学医院);Department of Radiology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust(放射科,剑桥大学医院 NHS 基础信托);Labelata GmbH(Labelata 公司);Visual and Data-Centric Computing, Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB)(视觉与数据导向计算,柏林 Zuse 研究所(ZIB));Brigham and Women’s Hospital(布里格姆和女性医院)