{"ID":2858075,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08052","arxiv_id":"2510.08052","title":"RASALoRE: Region Aware Spatial Attention with Location-based Random Embeddings for Weakly Supervised Anomaly Detection in Brain MRI Scans","abstract":"Weakly Supervised Anomaly detection (WSAD) in brain MRI scans is an important challenge useful to obtain quick and accurate detection of brain anomalies when precise pixel-level anomaly annotations are unavailable and only weak labels (e.g., slice-level) are available. In this work, we propose RASALoRE: Region Aware Spatial Attention with Location-based Random Embeddings, a novel two-stage WSAD framework. In the first stage, we introduce a Discriminative Dual Prompt Tuning (DDPT) mechanism that generates high-quality pseudo weak masks based on slice-level labels, serving as coarse localization cues. In the second stage, we propose a segmentation network with a region-aware spatial attention mechanism that relies on fixed location-based random embeddings. This design enables the model to effectively focus on anomalous regions. Our approach achieves state-of-the-art anomaly detection performance, significantly outperforming existing WSAD methods while utilizing less than 8 million parameters. Extensive evaluations on the BraTS20, BraTS21, BraTS23, and MSD datasets demonstrate a substantial performance improvement coupled with a significant reduction in computational complexity. Code is available at: https://github.com/BheeshmSharma/RASALoRE-BMVC-2025/.","short_abstract":"Weakly Supervised Anomaly detection (WSAD) in brain MRI scans is an important challenge useful to obtain quick and accurate detection of brain anomalies when precise pixel-level anomaly annotations are unavailable and only weak labels (e.g., slice-level) are available. In this work, we propose RASALoRE: Region Aware Sp...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08052","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08052v2","authors":"[\"Bheeshm Sharma\",\"Karthikeyan Jaganathan\",\"Balamurugan Palaniappan\"]","published":"2025-10-09T10:37:47Z","proceeding":"cs.CV","tasks":"[\"cs.CV\"]","methods":"[]","has_code":false,"code_links":[{"ID":608515,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_id":2858075,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08052","paper_title":"RASALoRE: Region Aware Spatial Attention with Location-based Random Embeddings for Weakly Supervised Anomaly Detection in Brain MRI Scans","repo_url":"https://github.com/BheeshmSharma/RASALoRE-BMVC-2025","is_official":false,"mentioned_in_paper":false,"mentioned_in_github":true,"github_stars":0}]}