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CoRE: Concept-Reasoning Expansion for Continual Brain Lesion Segmentation

Qianqian Chen , Anglin Liu , Jingyang Zhang , Yudong Zhang

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keywords continual learningbrain lesion segmentationMRIconcept alignmentexpert routingmodel growthclinical reasoning

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CoRE aligns image tokens with a hierarchical concept library to simulate clinical reasoning and direct efficient continual learning for brain lesion segmentation.

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The paper proposes the CoRE framework to solve capacity limits and redundancy in continual learning for brain lesion MRI segmentation, where privacy rules and annotation costs prevent retraining from scratch. It integrates visual features with structured concepts by aligning image tokens to a hierarchical library, using that alignment to simulate clinical reasoning. This drives interpretable expert routing and demand-based model growth instead of relying only on image perception. The result is model evolution grounded in clinical priors that reuses prior knowledge and avoids unnecessary parameter expansion. Evaluations across 12 sequential tasks show state-of-the-art accuracy plus strong few-shot transfer and interpretability.

Core claim

Through the alignment of image tokens with a hierarchical concept library, CoRE simulates clinical reasoning to guide both interpretable expert routing and demand-based model growth. This collaborative process ensures model evolution is grounded in clinical priors, preventing redundant parameter expansion while maximizing knowledge reuse.

What carries the argument

Alignment of image tokens with a hierarchical concept library, which simulates clinical reasoning to control expert routing and demand-based model growth.

If this is right

Model growth occurs only on demand from new tasks rather than through fixed capacity increases or full retraining.
Prior knowledge is reused across tasks via the shared concept library instead of being overwritten.
Expert routing becomes interpretable because decisions trace back to clinical concept matches.
The framework creates a high-knowledge starting point that speeds adaptation to future tasks.
Few-shot transfer improves because new tasks can leverage existing aligned concepts.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same token-to-concept alignment could reduce annotation needs in other medical imaging streams that evolve over time.
If new lesion types appear outside the initial library, the hierarchy would require explicit extension to maintain routing quality.
Combining CoRE routing with privacy techniques such as federated updates might further suit regulated clinical environments.

Load-bearing premise

Aligning image tokens to the hierarchical concept library reliably simulates clinical reasoning and produces effective routing and growth without introducing errors or biases that reduce segmentation accuracy.

What would settle it

Segmentation accuracy on earlier tasks drops after adding later tasks, or the model still expands parameters redundantly when the concept-alignment step is removed.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.25376 by Anglin Liu, Jingyang Zhang, Qianqian Chen, Yudong Zhang.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Illustration of CL paradigms. (a-b) Traditional paradigm (left): Existing methods typically (a) employ a fixed expert pool shared by all tasks or (b) add taskspecific experts, which often suffer from limited capacity or linear parameter growth. (cd) Self-expansion paradigm (right): (c) Existing dynamic expansion methods rely solely on image perception strategies and visual shifts. (d) Our method incorpor… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Overview of the CoRE framework. The architecture consists of three main components: (1) Brain Lesion Concept Library Generation, which establishes a structured conceptual foundation by organizing hierarchical knowledge into a concept space; (2) Concept-Guided Calibration (CGC), a module that aligns visual tokens with the concept space to ground expert routing decisions in interpretable brain lesion attrib… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Quantitative performance and data efficiency analysis. (a) Lesion-level performance, comparing the average DSC of CoRE against comparative methods across diverse brain lesion types; (b) modality-level performance, comparing the average DSC against comparative methods across various imaging modalities; and (c) fewshot multi-domain class incremental learning, illustrating the average DSC for Tasks 13–16 un… view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Qualitative comparison of brain lesion segmentation results in the data stream from Task 1 to 12. 4.3 Extensive Analysis Analysis of Dynamic Adapter Expansion. Guided by preliminary experiments, we restrict dynamic expansion to the final two transformer blocks, specifically Block 7 and Block 8. We found that allowing expansion in shallow layers increases the total adapter count without notable performanc… view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Analysis of dynamic adapter expansion and routing weight distributions. (a) Dynamic adapter expansion, illustrating the number of adapters across the 12-task data stream for Block 7 and Block 8, where ‘+’ denotes layers utilizing concept-driven expansion; (b) Image routing weights and (c) concept routing weights, showing the weight distributions of the 8-MLP layer across the 12 sequential tasks. Triggering… view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Concept-adapter affinity analysis of the 8-MLP layer. For each of the 12 tasks, we display the top-3 brain lesion concepts associated with the adapter introduced at that task, extracted from the highest-weighted entries in the corresponding column of the adapter-concept weight matrix WAC. fully express, providing essential visual perception view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Analysis of expandable layers and the balance hyperparameter λ. (a) Average DSC across the sequential tasks when dynamic expansion is applied to different combinations of transformer blocks. (b) Average DSC under varying values of the balance hyperparameter λ. D.2 Analysis of Expandable Layers We investigate the impact of applying dynamic expansion to different sets of transformer blocks to determine the … view at source ↗

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Accurate brain lesion segmentation in MRI is vital for effective clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Due to high annotation costs and strict data privacy regulations, universal models require employing Continual Learning (CL) to adapt to evolving clinical tasks without losing previously acquired knowledge. However, existing CL paradigms often suffer from capacity limits or redundant parameter growth, and even advanced dynamic methods rely mostly on image-perception strategies that struggle to handle the substantial pathological and multimodal heterogeneity inherent in brain imaging. To address this issue, we propose Concept-Reasoning Expansion (CoRE) framework, which establishes a joint decision-making mechanism by integrating visual features with structured concepts. Through the alignment of image tokens with a hierarchical concept library, CoRE simulates clinical reasoning to guide both interpretable expert routing and demand-based model growth. This collaborative process ensures model evolution is grounded in clinical priors, preventing redundant parameter expansion while maximizing knowledge reuse. Extensive evaluations across 12 sequential brain lesion MRI tasks demonstrate that CoRE achieves state-of-the-art performance and provides a high knowledge starting point for efficient future adaptation. Its superior few-shot transferability and clinical interpretability further validate its effectiveness in managing non-stationary clinical data streams. Our code will be released soon.

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CoRE tries to ground continual segmentation in token-to-concept alignment for better routing and growth, but the abstract gives no numbers or checks on whether that alignment actually works.

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The main new piece is the joint use of a hierarchical concept library to steer both expert routing and demand-driven expansion in a continual setup for brain lesion MRI. That moves beyond pure visual dynamic routing by trying to inject clinical priors directly into the decision process, which fits the privacy and heterogeneity constraints of medical data. The framing around 12 sequential tasks and the emphasis on few-shot transfer plus interpretability are reasonable extensions of existing continual learning work in segmentation. If the full experiments back the SOTA claim with clear retention metrics and controlled growth, the idea could be practically useful for clinical pipelines that cannot retrain from scratch. The paper does a decent job laying out why image-only methods struggle with pathological variety and why structured concepts might help reuse knowledge without redundant parameters. The code release promise is also a plus for checking the implementation. The soft spots sit mostly in the alignment step itself. The stress-test concern holds up on the given description: without reported alignment accuracy, error rates across lesion subtypes, or ablations that isolate the concept component from the dynamic architecture, it is unclear whether mismatches are introducing new biases or just adding overhead. Heterogeneous MRI data makes this risk real, and the abstract supplies no quantitative validation that the simulated reasoning improves decisions over simpler baselines. The central claim therefore rests on an unverified assumption that the token-to-concept mapping stays reliable task after task. This paper is aimed at the continual learning plus medical imaging intersection. Readers already working on dynamic networks for segmentation would find the concept angle worth examining, even if they end up modifying or dropping the library part. It deserves a serious referee because the problem is concrete and the proposed mechanism is distinct enough to test, though any review will need to press for the missing ablations and alignment diagnostics before acceptance.

Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes the Concept-Reasoning Expansion (CoRE) framework for continual learning in brain lesion segmentation from MRI. It integrates visual features with structured concepts by aligning image tokens to a hierarchical concept library, which is claimed to simulate clinical reasoning. This alignment is used to guide interpretable expert routing and demand-based model growth, addressing capacity limits, redundant expansion, and pathological/multimodal heterogeneity in non-stationary clinical data. The paper asserts state-of-the-art performance across 12 sequential brain lesion MRI tasks, along with strong few-shot transferability and clinical interpretability.

Significance. If the token-to-concept alignment reliably produces clinically grounded routing and growth decisions without systematic misalignment or bias, the framework could meaningfully advance continual learning methods in medical imaging by grounding model evolution in structured priors rather than purely visual strategies, potentially improving both efficiency and interpretability.

major comments (2)

[Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that alignment of image tokens with the hierarchical concept library 'simulates clinical reasoning' to enable effective expert routing and demand-based growth is presented without any quantitative measure of alignment fidelity, error rates across task boundaries, or comparison to visual-only baselines. This is load-bearing for the SOTA and interpretability assertions, as even modest mismatches on heterogeneous lesion subtypes could propagate into incorrect routing or unnecessary parameter addition.
[Abstract] Abstract: The manuscript states SOTA results on 12 sequential tasks and 'extensive evaluations' but supplies no metrics, ablation studies, baseline comparisons, or error analysis in the provided description. Without these, the extent of improvement over existing CL paradigms and the absence of new biases cannot be assessed.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. The comments highlight opportunities to strengthen the abstract's support for our core claims. We address each point below and will incorporate revisions to improve clarity and transparency.

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Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that alignment of image tokens with the hierarchical concept library 'simulates clinical reasoning' to enable effective expert routing and demand-based growth is presented without any quantitative measure of alignment fidelity, error rates across task boundaries, or comparison to visual-only baselines. This is load-bearing for the SOTA and interpretability assertions, as even modest mismatches on heterogeneous lesion subtypes could propagate into incorrect routing or unnecessary parameter addition.

Authors: We agree that the abstract would be strengthened by explicit reference to quantitative support for the alignment process. The full manuscript details the alignment mechanism in Section 3 and provides quantitative evaluations of alignment fidelity, routing error rates across task boundaries, and comparisons against visual-only baselines in Sections 4.3 and 5.2. These analyses demonstrate reliable alignment that underpins the routing and growth decisions. We will revise the abstract to include a concise reference to these quantitative results and their role in validating the clinical-reasoning simulation. revision: yes
Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The manuscript states SOTA results on 12 sequential tasks and 'extensive evaluations' but supplies no metrics, ablation studies, baseline comparisons, or error analysis in the provided description. Without these, the extent of improvement over existing CL paradigms and the absence of new biases cannot be assessed.

Authors: The abstract serves as a high-level overview, while the complete experimental results—including specific performance metrics on the 12 tasks, ablation studies, baseline comparisons, and error analyses—are presented in Sections 4 and 5 with accompanying tables and figures. These establish the SOTA improvements and confirm the absence of introduced biases. We will update the abstract to briefly highlight key quantitative outcomes and direct readers to the detailed evaluations in the main text. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: method claims are descriptive without reducible derivations

full rationale

The provided abstract and description outline the CoRE framework as integrating visual features with structured concepts via token-to-library alignment to guide routing and growth. No equations, parameter-fitting steps, self-citations, or uniqueness theorems are quoted or referenced that would reduce any claimed result (e.g., 'simulates clinical reasoning' or 'SOTA performance') to its inputs by construction. The central narrative is a high-level methodological proposal evaluated on 12 tasks, with no load-bearing step that renames a fit as a prediction or imports uniqueness from prior author work. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained as an engineering description rather than a tautological reduction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review yields no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the hierarchical concept library is mentioned but its construction, size, or grounding is unspecified.

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