Merlin Plus: A Large-Scale, Multi-Cancer, Image-Mask-Report Dataset

arXiv:2609.36436 · cs.CV · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Code: https://github.com/MrGiovanni/MerlinPlus

Terminology

• Active Learning — 14× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Benchmark — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Computed Tomography — 6× in this paper
• Segmentation Masks — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• External Validation — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging — 3× in this paper
• nnU-Net — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Learning Strategy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Transfer Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Scaling Artificial Intelligence for Multi-Tumor Early Detection with More Reports, Fewer Masks
• BenchX: Benchmarking AI Models for Cancer Detection and Localization with Demographic and Protocol Biases
• A Data-scalable Transformer for Medical Image Segmentation: Architecture, Model Efficiency, and Benchmark
• Early and Prediagnostic Detection of Pancreatic Cancer from Computed Tomography
• Expectation-Maximization as the Engine of Scalable Medical Intelligence
• Automatic Organ and Pan-cancer Segmentation in Abdomen CT: the FLARE 2023 Challenge

Related papers

• Loss Knows Best: Detecting Annotation Errors in Videos via Loss Trajectories
• AnchorWeave: World-Consistent Video Generation with Retrieved Local Spatial Memories
• Benchmarking the Robustness of Foundation Models for Mammography under Domain Shift
• MambaX-Net: Dual-Input Mamba-Enhanced Cross-Attention Network for Longitudinal MRI Segmentation
• TeleOCR: Navigating Document Parsing Across Digital and Camera-Captured Documents
• A Survey on Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models