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nnMamba: 3D Biomedical Image Segmentation, Classification and Landmark Detection with State Space Model

arXiv 2402.03526 ↗First posted 5 Feb 2024cs.CVcited by 45

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Abstract (arXiv)

In the field of biomedical image analysis, the quest for architectures capable of effectively capturing long-range dependencies is paramount, especially when dealing with 3D image segmentation, classification, and landmark detection. Traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) struggle with locality respective field, and Transformers have a heavy computational load when applied to high-dimensional medical images.In this paper, we introduce nnMamba, a novel architecture that integrates the strengths of CNNs and the advanced long-range modeling capabilities of State Space Sequence Models (SSMs). Specifically, we propose the Mamba-In-Convolution with Channel-Spatial Siamese learning (MICCSS) block to model the long-range relationship of the voxels. For the dense prediction and classification tasks, we also design the channel-scaling and channel-sequential learning methods. Extensive experiments on 6 datasets demonstrate nnMamba's superiority over state-of-the-art methods in a suite of challenging tasks, including 3D image segmentation, classification, and landmark detection. nnMamba emerges as a robust solution, offering both the local representation ability of CNNs and the efficient global context processing of SSMs, setting a new standard for long-range dependency modeling in medical image analysis. Code is available at https://github.com/lhaof/nnMamba

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  1. 2024The Hidden Attention of Mamba Modelscited by 88
  2. 2024ZigMa: A DiT-style Zigzag Mamba Diffusion Modelcited by 84
  3. 2024Mamba-360: Survey of State Space Models as Transformer Alternative for Long Sequence Modelling: Methods, Applications, and Challengescited by 63
  4. 2024State Space Model for New-Generation Network Alternative to Transformers: A Surveycited by 59
  5. 2024Vision Mamba: A Comprehensive Survey and Taxonomycited by 53
  6. 2024A Survey on Visual Mambacited by 50
  7. 2024VMRNN: Integrating Vision Mamba and LSTM for Efficient and Accurate Spatiotemporal Forecastingcited by 35
  8. 2024MambaLRP: Explaining Selective State Space Sequence Modelscited by 31
  9. 2024Rethinking Scanning Strategies with Vision Mamba in Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Imagery: An Experimental Studycited by 24
  10. 2024Res-VMamba: Fine-Grained Food Category Visual Classification Using Selective State Space Models with Deep Residual Learningcited by 21
  11. 2024Hybrid Mamba for Few-Shot Segmentationcited by 21
  12. 2024MambaMIR: An Arbitrary-Masked Mamba for Joint Medical Image Reconstruction and Uncertainty Estimationcited by 19
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  1. 2024Mamba in Vision: A Comprehensive Survey of Techniques and Applicationscited by 18
  2. 2024A Comprehensive Survey of Mamba Architectures for Medical Image Analysis: Classification, Segmentation, Restoration and Beyondcited by 16
  3. 2024CMViM: Contrastive Masked Vim Autoencoder for 3D Multi-modal Representation Learning for AD classificationcited by 15
  4. 2024GroupMamba: Efficient Group-Based Visual State Space Modelcited by 15
  5. 2024DenoMamba: A fused state-space model for low-dose CT denoisingcited by 11
  6. 2024Deep Learning Techniques for Atmospheric Turbulence Removal: A Reviewcited by 10
  7. 2025ADAgent: LLM Agent for Alzheimer's Disease Analysis with Collaborative Coordinatorcited by 9
  8. 2024FER-YOLO-Mamba: Facial Expression Detection and Classification Based on Selective State Spacecited by 6
  9. 2024Diffuse-UDA: Addressing Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in Medical Image Segmentation with Appearance and Structure Aligned Diffusion Modelscited by 6
  10. 2025VasTSD: Learning 3D Vascular Tree-state Space Diffusion Model for Angiography Synthesiscited by 6
  11. 2025MAMAT: 3D Mamba-Based Atmospheric Turbulence Removal and its Object Detection Capabilitycited by 5
  12. 2024Mamba-UIE: Enhancing Underwater Images with Physical Model Constraintcited by 3
  13. 2024TTT-Unet: Enhancing U-Net with Test-Time Training Layers for Biomedical Image Segmentationcited by 3
  14. 2025DH-Mamba: Exploring Dual-domain Hierarchical State Space Models for MRI Reconstructioncited by 3
  15. 2025nnLandmark: A Self-Configuring Method for 3D Medical Landmark Detectioncited by 3
  16. 2025Technologies on Effectiveness and Efficiency: A Survey of State Spaces Modelscited by 2
  17. 2025HWA-UNETR: Hierarchical Window Aggregate UNETR for 3D Multimodal Gastric Lesion Segmentationcited by 2
  18. 2025Uncertainty-aware Diffusion and Reinforcement Learning for Joint Plane Localization and Anomaly Diagnosis in 3D Ultrasoundcited by 2
  19. 2024Venturing into Uncharted Waters: The Navigation Compass from Transformer to Mambacited by 1
  20. 2025CHaRM: Conditioned Heatmap Regression Methodology for Accurate and Fast Dental Landmark Localizationcited by 1
  21. 2025OmniMamba4D: Spatio-temporal Mamba for longitudinal CT lesion segmentationcited by 1
  22. 2025DMAT: An End-to-End Framework for Joint Atmospheric Turbulence Mitigation and Object Detectioncited by 1
  23. 2024Enhancing Global Sensitivity and Uncertainty Quantification in Medical Image Reconstruction with Monte Carlo Arbitrary-Masked Mambacited by 0
  24. 2024StableMamba: Distillation-free Scaling of Large SSMs for Images and Videoscited by 0
  25. 2024When Mamba Meets xLSTM: An Efficient and Precise Method with the xLSTM-VMUNet Model for Skin lesion Segmentationcited by 0
  26. 2025ASM-UNet: Adaptive Scan Mamba Integrating Group Commonalities and Individual Variations for Fine-Grained Segmentationcited by 0
  27. 2026Is Mamba Reliable for Medical Imaging?cited by 0
  28. 2026CS-MUNet: A Channel-Spatial Dual-Stream Mamba Network for Multi-Organ Segmentationcited by 0
  29. 2026Learning Coarse-to-Fine Osteoarthritis Representations under Noisy Hierarchical Labelscited by 0
  30. 2026AGA3DNet: Anatomy-Guided Gaussian Priors with Multi-view xLSTM for 3D Brain MRI Subtype Classificationcited by 0
  31. 2026APRIL-MedSeg: A Modular Medical Image Segmentation Toolbox Embracing Modern Paradigmscited by 0
  32. 2026AuricularWorld: Hierarchical Action-Guided World Modeling for Fine-Grained Auricular Structure Segmentation from CT Scanscited by 0
  33. 2026Anatomy-Change-Aware Bidirectional Selective State-Space Memory for Clinically Deployed Thoracic Radiotherapy Auto-Contouringcited by 0

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