Ablate the kinetic-potential branch interplay

Systematically ablate the interplay between the kinetic SS2D branch and the potential-energy branch in Energy-Mamba across different imaging modalities and dataset scales.

Background

The Energy-Mamba block combines a kinetic branch based on SS2D with a potential branch that supplies gradient-based corrective forces. Although the paper reports improvements over comparison models, it does not provide the systematic cross-modality and cross-dataset ablation of these two branches that the conclusion identifies as an open direction.

References

Several directions remain open for future investigation, including the extension of Energy-Mamba to 3D volumetric medical data, the extension to other tasks such as segmentation, the exploration of alternative energy function architectures, and a systematic ablation of the interplay between the kinetic and potential branches across different imaging modalities and dataset scales.

— Energy-Mamba: A Physics-Constrained State-Space Model for Medical Image Classification  (2608.19813 - Mabrok et al., 20 Aug 2026) in Conclusion