Examines one-shot landmark detection using foundation models in anatomical analysis, suggesting improved accuracy.
Accurate anatomical landmark detection is important for orthodontic analysis, surgical planning, and morphometric measurement, but fully supervised methods usually require large expert-annotated datasets. This work studies a one-shot setting, where only a single annotated template image is used for training. We propose a foundation-model-based landmark detection framework using a frozen DINO Vision Transformer (ViT) backbone. The proposed framework integrates three complementary components: a Multi-Layer Multi-Facet (MLMF) module that adaptively fuses key and value features from multiple ViT layers through global source-wise reweighting; a Mamba-Based Long-Range Context Aggregation (MLCA) module that injects global anatomical context into fused patch descriptors with linear complexity; and a Topology-Constrained Graph Refinement (TCGR) module that refines the predicted landmark configuration using anatomical graph constraints. Experiments on the Cephalometric dataset and the Hand X-ray dataset demonstrate that the proposed method achieves strong performance. Overall, the results show that jointly exploiting multi-source foundation-model representations, efficient long-range context aggregation, and topology-aware refinement improves annotation-efficient anatomical landmark detection.
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