The accurate diagnosis of spinal pathologies depends heavily on radiological interpretation, yet automated systems are hindered by the lack of diverse, high-quality benchmarks. In this study, we present PhenSPINE, a Magnetic Resonance Imaging dataset comprising 16,813 images from 250 patients, curated to facilitate advanced deep learning research. We propose a robust diagnostic benchmark that integrates state-of-theart convolutional backbones with a Positional Encoding mechanism to explicitly model the anatomical context of intervertebral discs. Evaluating across four standard MRI sequences, our experiments demonstrate that the Sagittal T2-weighted sequence offers the most robust diagnostic value, achieving a superior Macro F1-score of 50.31%. We find that multisequence fusion strategies yield inferior performance compared to this single-sequence baseline, as the images across sequences in our dataset are significantly compromised by noise interference from surrounding anatomical regions. This work establishes a robust baseline and offers critical insights into sequence selection for spine analysis.
A vision-language AI assistant returns its answer as a stream of generated tokens. Therefore, a safety guard that watches that answer has to keep up with the stream and stop a harmful reply before a user reads it. Recent vision-language guardrails instead generate a chain of thou…
Accurate pixel-level classification of coronary angiograms is critical for cardiovascular disease assessment, yet the field lacks standardized evaluation protocols. In this work we demonstrate a new benchmark for the assessment of deep learning models which densely classify pixel…
The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) tests whether a model can infer an unseen transformation from a few input-output examples and apply it to a new grid. Looped visual reasoners refine predictions over multiple iterations, but conventional training constrains only the fina…
Reading a social situation often depends on behavior, not words alone. We introduce FriendBench, a benchmark for inferring whether two people are already familiar or are meeting as strangers, from a 20-second clip of a dyadic ice-breaker conversation. Every pair answers the same…
Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) is essential for breast cancer management, but reliance on gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) restricts use in contraindicated populations, prolongs scan protocols, and presents environmental toxicity concerns.…
Agentic assistants capable of proactive, personalized interactions require structured models of user intent and workflow. However, building these models from raw, unstructured screen activity remains an open challenge. We present SERUM, a multi-pass framework that extracts finite…