EliSeg: Verified Target Construction for Report-Grounded Abnormality Segmentation

[Submitted on 7 Aug 2026 (v1), last revised 11 Aug 2026 (this version, v2)]

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Abstract:Radiology reports describe clinical observations but do not specify executable segmentation targets. They may contain present, negated, prior,uncertain, or irrelevant findings, while multiple valid abnormalities may coexist. Existing segmentation methods largely bypass this ambiguity by receiving a target identity or spatial prompt before inference, which acts as a hidden target oracle. We study report-grounded abnormality segmentation, where a model must determine target eligibility, cardinality, and finding-to-mask correspondence directly from an unfiltered report before delineating the corresponding regions. We propose \textbf{EliSeg}, an atcor–verify–revise framework that integrates target construction with mask generation. A grammar-constrained Actor proposes target slots and masks, an independent text-only Verifier reconstructs the eligible finding inventory, and Revision selectively re-executes the shared Actor when their target structures disagree. EliSeg requires no predefined target identity, finding prompt, point, or bounding box. Experiments on MIMIC-CXR-ILS show that EliSeg consistently outperforms direct segmentation methods and extract-then-segment cascades across findings, while effectively suppressing masks for ineligible report mentions. Ablation studies confirm the complementary roles of verification and revision, and evaluation on CheXlocalize demonstrates effective transfer of the EliSeg to an external this http URL is available at this https URL.

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From: Chengyi Peng [view email]
[v1] Fri, 7 Aug 2026 14:52:35 UTC (17,813 KB)
[v2] Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:33:37 UTC (17,813 KB)