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Endo-SemiS: Towards Robust Semi-Supervised Image Segmentation for Endoscopic Video

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-12-22 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we present Endo-SemiS, a semi-supervised segmentation framework for providing reliable segmentation of endoscopic video frames with limited annotation. EndoSemiS uses 4 strategies to improve performance by effectively utilizing all available data, particularly unlabeled data: (1) Cross-supervision between two individual networks that supervise each other; (2) Uncertainty-guided pseudo-labels from unlabeled data, which are generated by selecting high-confidence regions to improve their quality; (3) Joint pseudolabel supervision, which aggregates reliable pixels from the pseudo-labels of both networks to provide accurate supervision for unlabeled data; and (4) Mutual learning, where both networks learn from each other at the feature and image levels, reducing variance and guiding them toward a consistent solution. Additionally, a separate corrective network that utilizes spatiotemporal information from endoscopy video to improve segmentation performance. Endo-SemiS is evaluated on two clinical applications: kidney stone laser lithotomy from ureteroscopy and polyp screening from colonoscopy. Compared to state-of-the-art segmentation methods, Endo-SemiS substantially achieves superior results on both datasets with limited labeled data. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/MedICL-VU/Endo-SemiS

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@article{arxiv.2512.16977,
  title  = {Endo-SemiS: Towards Robust Semi-Supervised Image Segmentation for Endoscopic Video},
  author = {Hao Li and Daiwei Lu and Xing Yao and Nicholas Kavoussi and Ipek Oguz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.16977},
  year   = {2025}
}
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