# An Ensemble Approach for Brain Tumor Segmentation and Synthesis

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.17617 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.17617/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 17 of its 30 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 26 Nov 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 17 of 17)

- [Generative Adversarial Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.00667/) (2022)
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- [Domain-Adversarial Training of Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1505.07818/) (2015)
- [Fourier Neural Operator for Parametric Partial Differential Equations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.08895/) (2020)
- [Improved Training of Wasserstein GANs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.00028/) (2017)
- [3D U-Net: Learning Dense Volumetric Segmentation from Sparse Annotation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1606.06650/) (2016)
- [Swin UNETR: Swin Transformers for Semantic Segmentation of Brain Tumors in MRI Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.01266/) (2022)
- [U-Mamba: Enhancing Long-range Dependency for Biomedical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.04722/) (2024)
- [nnU-Net Revisited: A Call for Rigorous Validation in 3D Medical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.09556/) (2024)
- [The 2024 Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) Challenge: Glioma Segmentation on Post-treatment MRI](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.18368/) (2024)
- [Grokfast: Accelerated Grokking by Amplifying Slow Gradients](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.20233/) (2024)
- [Optimized U-Net for Brain Tumor Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.03352/) (2021)
- [How we won BraTS 2023 Adult Glioma challenge? Just faking it! Enhanced Synthetic Data Augmentation and Model Ensemble for brain tumour segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.17317/) (2024)
- [Adversarial Inpainting of Medical Image Modalities](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.06621/) (2018)
- [T-former: An Efficient Transformer for Image Inpainting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.07239/) (2023)
- [3D Inception-Based TransMorph: Pre- and Post-operative Multi-contrast MRI Registration in Brain Tumors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.04579/) (2022)
- [An Optimization Framework for Processing and Transfer Learning for the Brain Tumor Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.07008/) (2024)

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- [GANet-Seg: Adversarial Learning for Brain Tumor Segmentation with Hybrid Generative Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.21245/) (2025)
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## Abstract (arXiv)

The integration of machine learning in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), specifically in neuroimaging, is proving to be incredibly effective, leading to better diagnostic accuracy, accelerated image analysis, and data-driven insights, which can potentially transform patient care. Deep learning models utilize multiple layers of processing to capture intricate details of complex data, which can then be used on a variety of tasks, including brain tumor classification, segmentation, image synthesis, and registration. Previous research demonstrates high accuracy in tumor segmentation using various model architectures, including nn-UNet and Swin-UNet. U-Mamba, which uses state space modeling, also achieves high accuracy in medical image segmentation. To leverage these models, we propose a deep learning framework that ensembles these state-of-the-art architectures to achieve accurate segmentation and produce finely synthesized images.