arXiv · 2603.14496
Refining 3D Medical Segmentation with Verbal Instruction
Abstract
Accurate 3D anatomical segmentation is essential for clinical diagnosis and surgical planning. However, automated models frequently generate suboptimal shape predictions due to factors such as limited and imbalanced training data, inadequate labeling quality, and distribution shifts between training and deployment settings. A natural solution is to iteratively refine the predicted shape based on the radiologists' verbal instructions. However, this is hindered by the scarcity of paired data that explicitly links erroneous shapes to corresponding corrective instructions. As an initial step toward addressing this limitation, we introduce CoWTalk, a benchmark comprising 3D arterial anatomies with controllable synthesized anatomical errors and their corresponding repairing instructions. Building on this benchmark, we further propose an iterative refinement model that represents 3D shapes as vector sets and interacts with textual instructions to progressively update the target shape. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves significant improvements over corrupted inputs and competitive baselines, highlighting the feasibility of language-driven clinician-in-the-loop refinement for 3D medical shapes modeling.
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Kangxian Xie, Jiancheng Yang, Nandor Pinter, Chao Wu, Behzad Bozorgtabar, Mingchen Gao. 2026-03-15. Refining 3D Medical Segmentation with Verbal Instruction. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14496
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