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ThyCLIPNet: A BiomedCLIP-Guided Lightweight Attention-Enhanced DeepLabV3+ Framework for Robust Thyroid Nodule Segmentation
arXiv:2610.04743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate thyroid ultrasound segmentation is often challenged by low contrast, speckle noise, and unclear boundaries. Although recent methods have improv
arXiv:2610.04743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate thyroid ultrasound segmentation is often challenged by low contrast, speckle noise, and unclear boundaries. Although recent methods have improved segmentation accuracy, many rely on resource-intensive architectures or lack explicit integration of multiscale features with global biomedical visual guidance. In this paper, we introduce ThyCLIPNet, a lightweight semantic-guided hybrid encoder-decoder framework that integrates BiomedCLIP-derived biomedical semantic guidance into a lightweight multi-scale CNN segmentation pipeline. The encoder integrates MobileNetV2 with efficient channel attention, while atrous spatial pyramid pooling and a custom convolutional block attention module enrich bottleneck features. The decoder combines hierarchical skip connections and lightweight attention refinement with a BiomedCLIP-guided gated fusion pathway that projects vision-only global biomedical embeddings into decoder feature space and selectively integrates them through semantic-local fusion and spatial gating. To the best of our knowledge, ThyCLIPNet is among the first lightweight thyroid ultrasound segmentation frameworks to use BiomedCLIP's vision encoder alone for image-only global semantic guidance without text prompting. Experiments on TG3K, TN3K, DDTI, and PKTN achieve dice similarity coefficients of 96.22%, 87.58%, 84.73%, and 80.70%; intersection over union scores of 92.72%, 77.91%, 73.51%, and 67.64%; and 95th-percentile hausdorff distances of 3.75, 16.38, 18.23, and 10.86, respectively. ThyCLIPNet uses 8.55M parameters and 22.99G FLOPs. Overall, the results support integrating global biomedical semantic guidance with lightweight multi-scale CNN representations for robust and computationally efficient thyroid ultrasound segmentation. Source code: https://github.com/Tasnim-Jahan/ThyCLIPNet. [Abstract shortened for arXiv. See PDF for full abstract.]
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Source: arXiv cs.CV | 2026-10-06