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Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging
@melbajournal.bsky.social
Open-access, independent, minimum fee journal. Co-founded by Tal Arbel, @ja-schnabel.bsky.social, @msabuncu.bsky.social, William M. Wells III, Marc Niethammer, @adriandalca.bsky.social.

Website: https://www.melba-journal.org
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “Attri-Net: A Globally and Locally Inherently Interpretable Model for Multi-Label Classification Using Class-Specific Counterfactuals.”
🖊️ S Sun, S Woerner, A Maier, L M Koch, C F Baumgartner.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “On the Role of Calibration in Benchmarking Algorithmic Fairness for Skin Cancer Detection.”
🖊️ B Dominique, P Lam, N Kurtansky, J Weber, K Kose, V Rotemberg, J Dy.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “Circle Representation for Medical Instance Object Segmentation.”
🖊️ J Xiong, E H Nguyen, Y Liu, R Deng, R N Tyree, H Correa, G Hiremath, Y Wang, H Yang, A B Fogo, Y Huo.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “RAIDER: Rapid, anatomy-independent, deep learning-based PDFF and R2* estimation using magnitude-only signals, dual neural networks and training data distribution design.”
🖊️ T JP Bray, G V Minore, A Bainbridge, L Dwyer-Hemmings, S A Taylor, M A Hall-Craggs, H Zhang.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “AI-CNet3D: An Anatomically-Informed Cross-Attention Network with Multi-Task Consistency Fine-tuning for 3D Glaucoma Classification.”
🖊️ R Kenia, A Li, R Srivastava, K A Thakoor.
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October 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “Multi-Domain Brain Vessel Segmentation Through Feature Disentanglement.”
🖊️ F Galati, D Falcetta, R Cortese, F Prados, N Burgos, M A Zuluaga.
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Multi-Domain Brain Vessel Segmentation Through Feature Disentanglement
F Galati, D Falcetta, R Cortese, F Prados, N Burgos, M A Zuluaga
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September 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “Investigating sex bias in ECG classification for Atrial Fibrillation, Sinus Rhythm and Myocardial Infarction.”
🖊️ M Galanty, B van der Ster, A P Vlaar, C I Sánchez.
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September 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Heartfelt thank you to @ja-schnabel.bsky.social for her contributions as Founding Executive Editor of MELBA! Julia played a central role in kickstarting the journal and shaping its mission and vision.
We look forward to working with Julia in her new role as an advisor to the MELBA journal.
September 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “Sketchpose: Learning to Segment Cells with Partial Annotations.”
🖊️ @ccazorla31.bsky.social, N Munier, R Morin, P Weiss.
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August 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “SWiFT: Soft-Mask Weight Fine-tuning for Bias Mitigation.”
🖊️ J Yan, F Chen, Y Xue, Y Du, K Vilouras, S A Tsaftaris, S McDonagh.
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August 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “A Neural Conditional Random Field Model Using Deep Features and Learnable Functions for End-to-End MRI Prostate Zonal Segmentation.”
🖊️ A L Y Hung, K Zhao, K Pang, H Zheng, X Du, Q Miao, D Terzopoulos, K Sung.
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A Neural Conditional Random Field Model Using Deep Features and Learnable Functions for End-to-End MRI Prostate Zonal Segmentation
A L Y Hung, K Zhao, K Pang, H Zheng, X Du, Q Miao, D Terzopoulos, K Sung
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August 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “Robust deformable image registration using synthetic data and transfer learning.”
🖊️ I D Kolenbrander, M Maspero, J PW Pluim.
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August 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “Synthetic Data for Robust Stroke Segmentation.”
🖊️ L Chalcroft, I Pappas, C J Price, J Ashburner
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August 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “BraTS-PEDs: Results of the Multi-Consortium International Pediatric Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge 2023.”
🖊️ A F Kazerooni, N Khalili, X Liu, D Haldar,..., A Resnick, @spyridonbakas.bsky.social, A Vossough, M G Linguraru.
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July 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🎙️ MELBA at MIDL 2025 🎙️

MELBA had the pleasure of hosting the final session of Day 2 at MIDL 2025, featuring two outstanding oral presentations.

This session highlighted the strong synergy between MELBA and MIDL. ⬇️
July 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “Understanding differences in applying DETR to natural and medical images.”
🖊️ Y Xu, Y Shen, C Fernandez-Granda, L Heacock, K J Geras.
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June 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “BrainMorph: A Foundational Keypoint Model for Robust and Flexible Brain MRI Registration.”
🖊️ A Q Wang, R Saluja, H Kim, X He, @adriandalca.bsky.social , @msabuncu.bsky.social.
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June 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “MCP-MedSAM: A Powerful Lightweight Medical Segment Anything Model Trained with a Single GPU in Just One Day.”
🖊️ D Lyu, R Gao, @MariusStaring.
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June 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “How to build the best medical image segmentation algorithm using foundation models: a comprehensive empirical study with Segment Anything Model.”
🖊️ H Gu, H Dong, J Yang, @MazurowskiPhD (@MazurowskiLab).
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June 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
📢 MELBA is growing its editorial team!
We’re excited to welcome three new Associate Editors who bring outstanding expertise in machine learning and biomedical imaging.

Welcome to:
🔹 @bernhardkainz.bsky.social
🔹 @mariavak.bsky.social
🔹 Lisa Koch

We’re thrilled to have you on board! 🚀
June 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Exciting News! 🎉
We are thrilled to welcome Ismail Ben Ayed as a new Executive Editor of MELBA’s Editorial Board.
With a wealth of experience in #ComputerVision & #BiomedicalImaging, Dr. Ben Ayed will lead us to the next frontier of cutting-edge research.
Stay tuned! 🚀
May 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “GeoLS: an Intensity-based, Geodesic Soft Labeling for Image Segmentation.”
🖊️ S Adiga Vasudeva, J Dolz, H Lombaert.
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April 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “Prompting Medical Large Vision-Language Models to Diagnose Pathologies by Visual Question Answering.”
🖊️ D Guo, D Terzopoulos.
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April 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “Analysis of the BraTS 2023 Intracranial Meningioma Segmentation Challenge.”
🖊️ D LaBella, U Baid, O Khanna, S McBurney-Lin, …, J Villanueva-Meyer, A M Rauschecker, A Nada, M Aboian, A E Flanders, B Wiestler, S Bakas, E Calabrese.
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April 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🚨 New publication alert:
📢 “Learning disentangled representations for unpaired synthesis of high-resolution dynamic MRI.”
🖊️ C Scavinner-Dorval, Rodolphe Bailly, B Borotikar, S Brochard, D Ben Salem, F Rousseau.
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April 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM