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arxiv: 2606.24214 · v1 · pith:OVSXTVXRnew · submitted 2026-06-23 · 💻 cs.CV

MorVess: Morphology-Aware Pulmonary Vessel Segmentation Network

Fuyou Mao , Yifei Chen , Beining Wu , Lixin Lin , Jinnan Dai , Zhiling Li , Yilei Chen , Yaqi Wang
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keywords pulmonary vessel segmentationmorphology-aware segmentationdistance mapthickness mapCT imagingvascular topologydeep learningfoundation model adaptation
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MorVess jointly predicts vessel masks with distance and thickness maps to improve pulmonary vessel segmentation in CT scans.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces MorVess to address limitations in segmenting sparse and tortuous pulmonary vessels where small branches are lost and topology is hard to maintain. Standard models optimize only binary masks and lack explicit geometric constraints, leading to poor recovery of fine structures. MorVess adds joint prediction of distance maps for centerline consistency and thickness maps for diameter transitions, alongside a 2.5D adapter and fusion block to incorporate 3D context into foundation model features. This produces higher Dice, clDice, and HD95 scores on two CT benchmarks with better small-vessel recovery and connectivity. A sympathetic reader would care because accurate vessel maps support clinical quantification of lung structure.

Core claim

MorVess is a morphology-aware segmentation framework that integrates differentiable geometric priors with large-scale foundation model adaptation. It jointly predicts vessel masks, distance maps, and thickness maps to supply explicit supervision for vascular boundaries, centerline consistency, and smooth diameter transitions. A lightweight 2.5D adapter bridges 3D spatial context and 2D SAM representations while a global-local fusion block aggregates multi-level semantics and geometric cues. On two challenging pulmonary CT benchmarks the method yields superior Dice, clDice, and HD95 scores and substantially improves small-vessel recovery and global connectivity.

What carries the argument

Joint prediction of vessel masks, distance maps, and thickness maps that supplies explicit supervision for boundaries and topology, together with a 2.5D adapter and global-local fusion block.

If this is right

  • Small branches become recoverable because distance and thickness supervision enforce centerline and diameter consistency.
  • Global connectivity improves because the geometric maps reduce fragmentation under voxel-wise loss alone.
  • The 2.5D adapter allows pretrained 2D foundation models to handle 3D tubular structures without full 3D retraining.
  • Quantitative vessel analysis gains reliability from the explicit diameter and boundary predictions.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same joint-map supervision could transfer to segmentation of other tubular anatomy such as coronary or cerebral vessels.
  • Clinical workflows that rely on vessel diameter measurements might obtain more consistent results without additional post-processing steps.
  • The framework suggests a route for embedding geometric priors into other foundation-model adaptations in medical imaging.

Load-bearing premise

That jointly predicting distance and thickness maps will supply effective explicit supervision for vascular boundaries and topology without the auxiliary predictions introducing errors.

What would settle it

An ablation experiment on the same two CT benchmarks in which removing the distance-map and thickness-map prediction heads produces no drop or an increase in clDice and HD95 scores.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.24214 by Beining Wu, Feiwei Qin, Fuyou Mao, Hao Zhang, Huiyu Zhou, Jinnan Dai, Lixin Lin, Yan Tang, Yaqi Wang, Yifei Chen, Yilei Chen, Zhiling Li.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Schematic overview of the proposed MorVess framework. A lightweight 2.5D adapter augments a frozen SAM ViT encoder with inter-slice context, while a multi-head decoder jointly predicts semantic masks and differentiable geometric priors. A global-local fusion block integrates multi-scale semantic cues with geometric fields to refine vascular topology. Two-stage fine-tuning : HLR representing Head Learning R… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Process of Generating Vessel Distance Map. The process transforms discrete binary masks into continuously differentiable potential fields using morphological erosion and exponential distance decay. ture learning. Such uniform supervision results in weak gradient signals at vessel edges, making it difficult for the model to form sharp, well-defined contours and often leading to jagged or blurred boundaries.… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Process of Generating Vessel Thickness Map. The method extracts the topological skeleton from the Internal Distance field and propagates the centerline radius to the volumetric mask. vessel diameter across local regions, and (2) the loss of vascular connectivity in ar￾eas with blurred signals or low contrast. To overcome these issues, we introduce a global constraint termed the VTM, generated from the vasc… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Feature Space Distribution Analysis. The scatter plot visualizes the relationship between vascu￾lar density and thickness for the Parse2022 and AIIB23 datasets. ATM2022 Dataset.. The Airway Tree Modeling 2022 (ATM2022) dataset [39] pri￾marily comprises 500 chest CT scans accompanied by corresponding airway tree seg￾mentation labels covering the complete anatomical range from the central trachea to peripher… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative 3D visualization of segmentation results. The figure compares MorVess with state￾of-the-art methods on (a) Parse2022 and (b) AIIB2023 datasets. White arrows and dashed circles highlight specific challenging regions. 4.4. Evaluation Indicators To evaluate the proposed model comprehensively, we established a multidimen￾sional metric system covering geometric accuracy, topological connectivity, an… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Impact of the Two Geometric Priors on Segmentation Performance. Qualitative comparison on Parse2022 and AIIB2023 datasets. The zoomed-in insets demonstrate that the full model preserves fine distal branches and smooth boundaries, while removing either prior leads to discontinuities or diameter oscillations in peripheral regions. our 2.5-D architecture, the introduction of distance map supervision lowers HD… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Impact of LoRA/FaCT rank on segmentation accuracy. Dice scores steadily increase with larger ranks and gradually saturate around rank 32, indicating an overall optimal balance between represen￾tational capacity and parameter efficiency. 4.6.4. Effectiveness on the computational efficiency and resource cost To evaluate the computational efficiency and resource demands of our model, we conducted a comparativ… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Qualitative 3D visualization of cross-dataset results on HiPas and ATM2022. The MorVess model trained solely on the source domain is directly evaluated on the target domain without fine-tuning. tions, and then evaluated geometric consistency from three dimensions [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Geometric consistency analysis across domains. The top and bottom rows correspond to Parse2022 and AIIB2023 datasets, respectively. 4.8.1. TVV Consistency Total vessel volume (TVV) is a key physiological parameter that reflects the overall scale of tubular structures. Accurate estimation of this parameter is crucial for assessing disease burden and treatment response. As shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/… view at source ↗
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Accurate pulmonary vessel segmentation remains challenging due to the sparse, tortuous, and multi-scale nature of vascular structures, where small branches are easily lost and topology integrity is difficult to preserve under voxel-wise supervision. Existing deep segmentation models primarily optimize binary masks, lacking explicit geometric constraints, thus struggling to recover continuous tubular morphology and fine vascular connectivity. In this study, we introduce MorVess, a morphology-aware segmentation framework that integrates differentiable geometric priors with large-scale foundation model adaptation to achieve fine-grained vascular parsing. MorVess jointly predicts vessel masks, distance maps, and thickness maps, providing explicit supervision for vascular boundaries, centerline consistency, and smooth diameter transitions. A lightweight 2.5D adapter bridges 3D spatial context and 2D SAM representations, while a global-local fusion block aggregates multi-level semantics and geometric cues for high-fidelity topology reconstruction. Across two challenging pulmonary CT benchmarks, MorVess delivers superior Dice, clDice, and HD95 scores, substantially improving small-vessel recovery and global connectivity. These results demonstrate that embedding geometric intelligence into pretrained vision models offers a principled and scalable pathway toward precise vessel analysis and clinically reliable structural quantification. Our source code is available at https://github.com/MaoFuyou/MorVess.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes MorVess, a morphology-aware framework for pulmonary vessel segmentation in CT that jointly predicts binary masks, distance maps, and thickness maps to enforce geometric constraints on boundaries and topology. It incorporates a lightweight 2.5D adapter to bridge 3D context with 2D SAM representations and a global-local fusion block to aggregate multi-level semantics and geometric cues. The central claim is that this yields superior Dice, clDice, and HD95 scores on two challenging pulmonary CT benchmarks, with particular gains in small-vessel recovery and global connectivity.

Significance. If the empirical claims are substantiated, the approach of embedding explicit geometric supervision via auxiliary distance and thickness heads into a SAM-adapted architecture could meaningfully advance topology-preserving segmentation for sparse, multi-scale tubular structures in medical imaging. The open-source code release is a positive factor for reproducibility.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim of superior Dice, clDice, and HD95 performance (with substantial gains in small-vessel recovery) is asserted without any numerical values, baseline comparisons, ablation studies, or error analysis, which prevents assessment of whether the data and method support the claims.
  2. [Method] Method (joint prediction of auxiliary maps): No separate quantitative metrics (e.g., MAE or correlation) are reported for the distance and thickness map heads, nor is there an ablation removing these heads; this leaves open whether the auxiliary predictions reinforce or compete with the primary mask loss and whether they are used at inference.
  3. [Experiments] Experiments: The absence of any reported results, tables, or figures quantifying the claimed improvements on the two benchmarks means the load-bearing assertion of better small-vessel recovery and connectivity cannot be evaluated.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. The comments correctly identify that the current manuscript version lacks explicit numerical results, ablations, and auxiliary-task metrics in the sections highlighted. We will revise the manuscript to incorporate these elements, thereby strengthening the empirical support for our claims.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim of superior Dice, clDice, and HD95 performance (with substantial gains in small-vessel recovery) is asserted without any numerical values, baseline comparisons, ablation studies, or error analysis, which prevents assessment of whether the data and method support the claims.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract should contain concrete numerical evidence. In the revised manuscript we will insert the key quantitative results (Dice, clDice, HD95) together with the main baseline comparisons and a brief reference to the ablation findings that demonstrate the contribution of the morphology-aware components. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Method] Method (joint prediction of auxiliary maps): No separate quantitative metrics (e.g., MAE or correlation) are reported for the distance and thickness map heads, nor is there an ablation removing these heads; this leaves open whether the auxiliary predictions reinforce or compete with the primary mask loss and whether they are used at inference.

    Authors: We will add MAE and Pearson correlation values for both auxiliary heads on the validation sets. We will also include an ablation that removes the distance and thickness heads while keeping all other components fixed. The auxiliary maps are used exclusively during training to provide geometric supervision; at inference only the binary mask is output. This clarification and the new quantitative results will be inserted into the Method section. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments: The absence of any reported results, tables, or figures quantifying the claimed improvements on the two benchmarks means the load-bearing assertion of better small-vessel recovery and connectivity cannot be evaluated.

    Authors: We will insert the full quantitative tables (including per-method Dice, clDice, HD95, and small-vessel-specific metrics) and the corresponding figures for both benchmarks. These tables will also report the ablation results mentioned above so that the contribution of each design choice can be directly assessed. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity detected; standard supervised multi-task learning

full rationale

The paper describes a standard deep segmentation architecture (MorVess) that jointly optimizes a primary mask loss together with auxiliary distance-map and thickness-map heads on labeled CT data. No equation or claim reduces a reported performance metric to a fitted parameter by construction, no uniqueness theorem is imported from self-citation, and no ansatz is smuggled through prior work. The geometric priors are supplied by explicit ground-truth maps during training, which is an ordinary multi-task supervision pattern whose outputs are independently measurable and falsifiable on the same benchmarks. The derivation chain therefore remains self-contained against external data rather than internally tautological.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on standard deep learning assumptions about learnability of geometric maps and the value of multi-task supervision; no explicit free parameters or invented entities are detailed in the abstract.

free parameters (1)
  • multi-task loss weighting
    Relative weights between mask, distance, and thickness prediction losses are hyperparameters that must be chosen or tuned during training.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Geometric maps (distance and thickness) can be accurately regressed from image features and provide useful supervision signals
    The method depends on this assumption to justify the joint prediction approach for topology preservation.

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