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-# panther
+# [MICCAI2025 Panther] Multi-Stage Fine-Tuning and Ensembling for Pancreatic Tumor Segmentation in MRI
 
+This repository contains the official implementation of our MICCAI 2025 challenge paper:
 
+### **A Multi-Stage Fine-Tuning and Ensembling Strategy for Pancreatic Tumor Segmentation in Diagnostic and Therapeutic MRI**
 
-## Getting started
+We present a **cascaded pre-training, fine-tuning, and ensembling framework** for **pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) segmentation** in MRI. Our method, built on **nnU-Net v2**, leverages:  
+- Multi-stage cascaded fine-tuning (from a foundation model → CT lesions → target MRI modalities)  
+- Systematic augmentation ablations (aggressive vs. default)  
+- Metric-aware heterogeneous ensembling ("mix of experts")  
 
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+This approach achieved **the first place** in the **PANTHER challenge**, with robust performance across both **diagnostic T1W (Task 1)** and **therapeutic T2W MR-Linac (Task 2)** scans.
 
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+> **Authors**: Omer Faruk Durugol*, Maximilian Rokuss*, Yannick Kirchhoff, Klaus H. Maier-Hein  
+> *Equal contribution  
+> **Paper**: [![arXiv](https://img.shields.io/badge/arXiv-2508.21775-b31b1b.svg)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21775)  
+> **Challenge**: [PANTHER](https://panther.grand-challenge.org)
 
-## Add your files
+---
 
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+## News/Updates
+- 🏆 **Aug 2025**: Achieved **1st place in both tasks** in the [PANTHER Challenge](https://panther.grand-challenge.org)!  
+- 📄 **Aug 2025**: Paper preprint released on [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21775).  
 
-```
-cd existing_repo
-git remote add origin https://git.dkfz.de/mic/personal/group2/all/panther.git
-git branch -M main
-git push -uf origin main
-```
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-## Integrate with your tools
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+## 🚀 Usage
 
-***
+Coming soon!
 
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+## 📂 Data
 
-## Suggestions for a good README
+We trained and evaluated on the **PANTHER Challenge dataset**:
+👉 [https://zenodo.org/records/15192302](https://zenodo.org/records/15192302)
 
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+Pretraining leveraged:
 
-## Name
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+* [MultiTalentV2](https://zenodo.org/records/13753413)
+* Pancreatic lesion CT datasets (MSD + PANORAMA)
 
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+```bibtex
+@article{durugol2025multistagefinetuningensemblingstrategy,
+      title={A Multi-Stage Fine-Tuning and Ensembling Strategy for Pancreatic Tumor Segmentation in Diagnostic and Therapeutic MRI}, 
+      author={Omer Faruk Durugol and Maximilian Rokuss and Yannick Kirchhoff and Klaus H. Maier-Hein},
+      year={2025},
+      eprint={2508.21775},
+      archivePrefix={arXiv},
+      primaryClass={cs.CV},
+      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21775}, 
+}
+```
 
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+## 📬 Contact
 
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+For questions, issues, or collaborations, please reach out:
+📧 [maximilian.rokuss@dkfz-heidelberg.de](mailto:maximilian.rokuss@dkfz-heidelberg.de)