MTL-LymphNet: A Lightweight Multi-Task Learning Framework for Simultaneous Lymph Node Segmentation and Metastasis Classification in Thyroid Cancer Ultrasound.
Ultrasound assessment of cervical lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma is crucial but suffers from inter-observer variability. Existing deep learning solutions typically use separate single-task pipelines, resulting in parameter redundancy. We propose MTL-LymphNet, a lightweight, backbone-agnostic multi...