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Daqian Shi

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preprint2026arXiv

Cross-Source Supervision for Bone Infection Segmentation in Dual-Modality PET-CT

Early and accurate diagnosis and lesion localization of bone infections are crucial for clinical treatment. PET-CT integrates anatomical information from CT with metabolic information from PET, making it an important imaging modality for diagnosing bone infections. However, accurate lesion segmentation remains challenging due to indistinct lesion boundaries and inconsistencies in annotations generated by different experts or automated systems. In this work, we investigate multimodal segmentation of bone infections under annotation discrepancy. We develop a bimodal end-to-end segmentation framework that integrates PET metabolic signals and CT bone-window anatomy through an early-fusion multimodal representation.To mitigate performance inflation caused by inter-slice correlation in small datasets, this study discards traditional two-dimensional evaluation methods and implements a rigorous patient-level 3D volumetric evaluation and cross-validation. Furthermore, instead of forcing a singular consensus, we propose a decoupled dual-source learning framework where parallel models are trained on independent expert annotations driven by high-sensitivity and high-specificity clinical intents. Experimental results objectively report performance variations at the patient level (Mean + SD and Mean - SD), demonstrating the effectiveness of multimodal PET-CT fusion. The cross-evaluation matrix quantitatively reveals how models successfully internalize distinct expert diagnostic philosophies, providing a robust, diversity-preserving paradigm for clinical AI deployment in bone infection segmentation.

preprint2026arXiv

Uncovering Latent Pathological Signatures in Pulmonary CT via Cross-Window Knowledge Distillation

Multi-window CT imaging captures complementary pathological information across anatomical structures of differing densities, yet existing deep learning methods fuse representations only at later stages, missing cross-density interactions. We propose a cross-window knowledge distillation framework in which student encoders learn latent clinical priors from a teacher trained on the most informative window. Evaluated retrospectively on three cohorts - COPD-CT-DF (n=719), RSNA PE (n=1,433), and an in-house CTEPD dataset (n=161) - distillation improved per-window AUC by 10.1-16.5 percentage points on COPD-CT-DF (0.75-0.81 to 0.90-0.94; all P<0.001), with ensemble AUC reaching 0.9960. Similar gains were observed on RSNA PE (0.80-0.83 to 0.90-0.92) and CTEPD (AUC 0.7481 vs. 0.6264). Cross-window distillation internalises pathological signatures invisible to supervised approaches, offering a generalisable solution for multi-window pulmonary CT analysis.

preprint2022arXiv

CharFormer: A Glyph Fusion based Attentive Framework for High-precision Character Image Denoising

Degraded images commonly exist in the general sources of character images, leading to unsatisfactory character recognition results. Existing methods have dedicated efforts to restoring degraded character images. However, the denoising results obtained by these methods do not appear to improve character recognition performance. This is mainly because current methods only focus on pixel-level information and ignore critical features of a character, such as its glyph, resulting in character-glyph damage during the denoising process. In this paper, we introduce a novel generic framework based on glyph fusion and attention mechanisms, i.e., CharFormer, for precisely recovering character images without changing their inherent glyphs. Unlike existing frameworks, CharFormer introduces a parallel target task for capturing additional information and injecting it into the image denoising backbone, which will maintain the consistency of character glyphs during character image denoising. Moreover, we utilize attention-based networks for global-local feature interaction, which will help to deal with blind denoising and enhance denoising performance. We compare CharFormer with state-of-the-art methods on multiple datasets. The experimental results show the superiority of CharFormer quantitatively and qualitatively.

preprint2022arXiv

LiveSchema: A Gateway Towards Learning on Knowledge Graph Schemas

One of the major barriers to the training of algorithms on knowledge graph schemas, such as vocabularies or ontologies, is the difficulty that scientists have in finding the best input resource to address the target prediction tasks. In addition to this, a key challenge is to determine how to manipulate (and embed) these data, which are often in the form of particular triples (i.e., subject, predicate, object), to enable the learning process. In this paper, we describe the LiveSchema initiative, namely a gateway that offers a family of services to easily access, analyze, transform and exploit knowledge graph schemas, with the main goal of facilitating the reuse of these resources in machine learning use cases. As an early implementation of the initiative, we also advance an online catalog, which relies on more than 800 resources, with the first set of example services.

preprint2022arXiv

RCRN: Real-world Character Image Restoration Network via Skeleton Extraction

Constructing high-quality character image datasets is challenging because real-world images are often affected by image degradation. There are limitations when applying current image restoration methods to such real-world character images, since (i) the categories of noise in character images are different from those in general images; (ii) real-world character images usually contain more complex image degradation, e.g., mixed noise at different noise levels. To address these problems, we propose a real-world character restoration network (RCRN) to effectively restore degraded character images, where character skeleton information and scale-ensemble feature extraction are utilized to obtain better restoration performance. The proposed method consists of a skeleton extractor (SENet) and a character image restorer (CiRNet). SENet aims to preserve the structural consistency of the character and normalize complex noise. Then, CiRNet reconstructs clean images from degraded character images and their skeletons. Due to the lack of benchmarks for real-world character image restoration, we constructed a dataset containing 1,606 character images with real-world degradation to evaluate the validity of the proposed method. The experimental results demonstrate that RCRN outperforms state-of-the-art methods quantitatively and qualitatively.