# Mamba for medical image analysis

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## Key facts

- Mamba for medical image analysis: 259 papers on arXiv since 2023 (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- 94 of its 259 mapped papers (36%) cite “U-Mamba: Enhancing Long-range Dependency for Biomedical Image Segmentation” (2024, arXiv 2401.04722).
- 77 of its 259 mapped papers (30%) cite “SegMamba: Long-range Sequential Modeling Mamba For 3D Medical Image Segmentation” (2024, arXiv 2401.13560).
- 5 new papers 18 Sep–14 Oct.

## Most cited here

- [U-Mamba: Enhancing Long-range Dependency for Biomedical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.04722/) (2024), cited by 94 papers here
- [SegMamba: Long-range Sequential Modeling Mamba For 3D Medical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.13560/) (2024), cited by 77 papers here
- [VM-UNet: Vision Mamba UNet for Medical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.02491/) (2024), cited by 70 papers here
- [Swin-UMamba: Mamba-based UNet with ImageNet-based pretraining](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.03302/) (2024), cited by 41 papers here
- [Mamba-UNet: UNet-Like Pure Visual Mamba for Medical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.05079/) (2024), cited by 40 papers here
- [VM-UNET-V2 Rethinking Vision Mamba UNet for Medical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.09157/) (2024), cited by 21 papers here
- [MedMamba: Vision Mamba for Medical Image Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.03849/) (2024), cited by 19 papers here
- [LightM-UNet: Mamba Assists in Lightweight UNet for Medical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.05246/) (2024), cited by 18 papers here
- [LKM-UNet: Large Kernel Vision Mamba UNet for Medical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.07332/) (2024), cited by 18 papers here
- [MambaMIL: Enhancing Long Sequence Modeling with Sequence Reordering in Computational Pathology](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.06800/) (2024), cited by 15 papers here

## New (18 Sep–14 Oct)

- [FETALFusion: Resolution-Aware State-Space Modeling for Multi-Domain Fetal Head Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.17951/) (2026-10-13)
- [scHFBiMamba: a bidirectional Mamba autoencoder for cardiac disease-state classification from single-nucleus RNA-seq data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.15117/) (2026-10-10)
- [GAD-MambaUNet: Direction-Group Mamba with Gradient-Adaptive DINOv3 Distillation for Lightweight Medical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.26729/) (2026-09-22)
- [SLICEChat: Progressive In-Encoder Token Pruning for Whole-Slide Pathology Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.24894/) (2026-09-21)
- [U-PEN Mamba: Progressive Expansion with Selective State-Space Modeling for Efficient Retinal Vessel Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.24049/) (2026-09-21)