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A General EM-Based Channel Model for Reconfigurable Antenna Systems

Chen Xu, Xianghao Yu ยท 2026

Reconfigurable antenna systems (RASs), such as fluid antennas and movable antennas, are poised to play a pivotal role in sixth-generation (6G) systems by dynamically adapting the antenna elements for โ€ฆ

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VIDS: A Verified Imaging Dataset Standard for Medical AI

Joan S. Muthu, John Shalen ยท 2026

Medical imaging AI development is fundamentally dependent on annotated datasets, yet no existing standard provides machine-enforceable validation across dataset structure, annotation provenance, qualiโ€ฆ

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Topology-Driven Fusion of nnU-Net and MedNeXt for Accurate Brain Tumor Segmentation on Sub-Saharan Africa Dataset

Prabin Bohara, Pralhad Kumar Shrestha, Arpan Rai, Usha Poudel Lamgade, Confidence Raymond, Dong Zhang, Aondona Lorumbu, Craig Jones, Mahesh Shakya, Bishesh Khanal, Pratibha Kulung ยท 2026

Accurate automatic brain tumor segmentation in Low and Middle-Income (LMIC) countries is challenging due to the lack of defined national imaging protocols, diverse imaging data, extensive use of low-fโ€ฆ

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RK-MPC: Residual Koopman Model Predictive Control for Quadruped Locomotion in Offroad Environments

Sriram S. K. S. Narayanan, Umesh Vaidya ยท 2026

This paper presents Residual Koopman MPC (RK-MPC), a Koopman-based, data-driven model predictive control framework for quadruped locomotion that improves prediction fidelity while preserving real-timeโ€ฆ

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Stein Variational Uncertainty-Adaptive Model Predictive Control

Hrishikesh Sathyanarayan, Ian Abraham ยท 2026

We propose a Stein variational distributionally robust controller for nonlinear dynamical systems with latent parametric uncertainty. The method is an alternative to conservative worst-case ambiguity-โ€ฆ

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TerraSkipper: A Centimeter-Scale Robot for Multi-Terrain Skipping and Crawling

Shashwat Singh, Sheri Zhang, Spencer Matonis, Zeynep Temel ยท 2026

Mudskippers are unique amphibious fish capable of locomotion in diverse environments, including terrestrial surfaces, aquatic habitats, and highly viscous substrates such as mud. This versatile locomoโ€ฆ

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PinPoint: Monocular Needle Pose Estimation for Robotic Suturing via Stein Variational Newton and Geometric Residuals

Jesse F. d'Almeida, Tanner Watts, Susheela Sharma Stern, James Ferguson, Alan Kuntz, Robert J. Webster III ยท 2026

Reliable estimation of surgical needle 3D position and orientation is essential for autonomous robotic suturing, yet existing methods operate almost exclusively under stereoscopic vision. In monocularโ€ฆ

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Rao-Blackwellized Stein Gradient Descent for Joint State-Parameter Estimation

Milad Banitalebi Dehkordi, Manas Mejari, Dario Piga ยท 2026

We present a filtering framework for online joint state estimation and parameter identification in nonlinear, time-varying systems. The algorithm uses Rao-Blackwellization technique to infer joint staโ€ฆ

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Stein Variational Ergodic Surface Coverage with SE(3) Constraints

Jiayun Li, Yufeng Jin, Sangli Teng, Dejian Gong, Georgia Chalvatzaki ยท 2026

Surface manipulation tasks require robots to generate trajectories that comprehensively cover complex 3D surfaces while maintaining precise end-effector poses. Existing ergodic trajectory optimizationโ€ฆ

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STL-SVPIO: Signal Temporal Logic guided Stein Variational Path Integral Optimization

Hongrui Zheng, Zirui Zang, Ahmad Amine, Cristian Ioan Vasile, Rahul Mangharam ยท 2026

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) enables formal specification of complex spatiotemporal constraints for robotic task planning. However, synthesizing long-horizon continuous control trajectories from compleโ€ฆ

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Characterization and Correlation of Robotic Snake Scale Friction and Locomotion Speed

Umit Sen, Andri Mahegan, Gina Olson ยท 2026

Snake robots are inspired by the ability of biological snakes to move over rock, grass, leaves, soil, up trees, along pavement and more. Their ability to move in multiple distinct environments is due โ€ฆ

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Few-Shot Continual Learning for 3D Brain MRI with Frozen Foundation Models

Chi-Sheng Chen, Xinyu Zhang, Guan-Ying Chen, Qiuzhe Xie, Fan Zhang, En-Jui Kuo ยท 2026

Foundation models pretrained on large-scale 3D medical imaging data face challenges when adapted to multiple downstream tasks under continual learning with limited labeled data. We address few-shot coโ€ฆ

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Multimodal MRI Report Findings Supervised Brain Lesion Segmentation with Substructures

Yubin Ge, Yongsong Huang, Xiaofeng Liu ยท 2026

Report-supervised (RSuper) learning seeks to alleviate the need for dense tumor voxel labels with constraints derived from radiology reports (e.g., volumes, counts, sizes, locations). In MRI studies oโ€ฆ

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Robust Glioblastoma Segmentation and Volumetry Without T2-FLAIR: External Validation of Targeted Dropout Training

Marco Ochsner, Lena Kaiser, Robert Stahl, Nathalie L. Albert, Thomas Liebig, Robert Forbrig, Jonas Reis ยท 2026

Objectives: To externally validate targeted T2 fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (T2-FLAIR) dropout for robust automated glioblastoma segmentation and whole-tumor volumetry without T2-FLAIR, while pโ€ฆ

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Understanding Fire Through Thermal Radiation Fields for Mobile Robots

Anton R. Wagner, Madhan Balaji Rao, Xuesu Xiao, Soren Pirk ยท 2026

Safely moving through environments affected by fire is a critical capability for autonomous mobile robots deployed in disaster response. In this work, we present a novel approach for mobile robots to โ€ฆ

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RefineFormer3D: Efficient 3D Medical Image Segmentation via Adaptive Multi-Scale Transformer with Cross Attention Fusion

Kavyansh Tyagi, Vishwas Rathi, Puneet Goyal ยท 2026

Accurate and computationally efficient 3D medical image segmentation remains a critical challenge in clinical workflows. Transformer-based architectures often demonstrate superior global contextual moโ€ฆ

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Learning to Select Like Humans: Explainable Active Learning for Medical Imaging

Ifrat Ikhtear Uddin, Longwei Wang, Xiao Qin, Yang Zhou, KC Santosh ยท 2026

Medical image analysis requires substantial labeled data for model training, yet expert annotation is expensive and time-consuming. Active learning (AL) addresses this challenge by strategically selecโ€ฆ

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MRI Cross-Modal Synthesis: A Comparative Study of Generative Models for T1-to-T2 Reconstruction

Ali Alqutayfi, Sadam Al-Azani ยท 2026

MRI cross-modal synthesis involves generating images from one acquisition protocol using another, offering considerable clinical value by reducing scan time while maintaining diagnostic information. Tโ€ฆ

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Training Beyond Convergence: Grokking nnU-Net for Glioma Segmentation in Sub-Saharan MRI

Mohtady Barakat, Omar Salah, Ahmed Yasser, Mostafa Ahmed, Zahirul Arief, Waleed Khan, Dong Zhang, Aondona Iorumbur, Confidence Raymond, Mohannad Barakat, Noha Magdy ยท 2026

Gliomas are placing an increasingly clinical burden on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In the region, the median survival for patients remains under two years, and access to diagnostic imaging is extremely โ€ฆ

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AMGFormer: Adaptive Multi-Granular Transformer for Brain Tumor Segmentation with Missing Modalities

Chengxiang Guo, Jian Wang, Junhua Fei, Xiao Li, Chunling Chen, Yun Jin ยท 2026

Multimodal MRI is essential for brain tumor segmentation, yet missing modalities in clinical practice cause existing methods to exhibit >40% performance variance across modality combinations, renderinโ€ฆ

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