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Image segmentation is a fundamental problem in biomedical image analysis. Recent advances in deep learning have achieved promising results on many biomedical image segmentation benchmarks. However, due to large variations in biomedical…

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We propose in this article to build up a collaboration between a deep neural network and a human in the loop to swiftly obtain accurate segmentation maps of remote sensing images. In a nutshell, the agent iteratively interacts with the…

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The multi-reference alignment (MRA) problem entails estimating an image from multiple noisy and rotated copies of itself. If the noise level is low, one can reconstruct the image by estimating the missing rotations, aligning the images, and…

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Deep-learning pipelines for microscopy image classification often require expensive, labor- and time-intensive expert annotation to produce high-quality ground truth for training. Recent work has shown that prompt tuning of vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Abhiram Kandiyana , Ankur Mali , Lawrence O. Hall , Peter R. Mouton , Dmitry Goldgof

Accurate segmentation of neural structures in Electron Microscopy (EM) images is paramount for neuroscience. However, this task is challenged by intricate morphologies, low signal-to-noise ratios, and scarce annotations, limiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhenghua Li , Hang Chen , Zihao Sun , Kai Li , Xiaolin Hu

Deep learning has proven to be an essential tool for medical image analysis. However, the need for accurately labeled input data, often requiring time- and labor-intensive annotation by experts, is a major limitation to the use of deep…

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Comprehensive surgical planning require complex patient-specific anatomical models. For instance, functional muskuloskeletal simulations necessitate all relevant structures to be segmented, which could be performed in real-time using deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-20 Firat Ozdemir , Orcun Goksel

Uncertainty in machine learning models is a timely and vast field of research. In supervised learning, uncertainty can already occur in the first stage of the training process, the annotation phase. This scenario is particularly evident…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Katharina Hechinger , Christoph Koller , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Göran Kauermann

This paper presents a systematic solution for the intelligent recognition and automatic analysis of microscopy images. We developed a data engine that generates high-quality annotated datasets through a combination of the collection of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Yanhui Hong , Nan Wang , Zhiyi Xia , Haoyi Tao , Xi Fang , Yiming Li , Jiankun Wang , Peng Jin , Xiaochen Cai , Shengyu Li , Ziqi Chen , Zezhong Zhang , Guolin Ke , Linfeng Zhang

Deep convolutional neural networks have driven substantial advancements in the automatic understanding of images. Requiring a large collection of images and their associated annotations is one of the main bottlenecks limiting the adoption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Zahra Mirikharaji , Yiqi Yan , Ghassan Hamarneh

Microscopy images from different imaging conditions, organs, and tissues often have numerous cells with various shapes on a range of backgrounds. As a result, designing a deep learning model to count cells in a source domain becomes…

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Correctly identifying crosswalks is an essential task for the driving activity and mobility autonomy. Many crosswalk classification, detection and localization systems have been proposed in the literature over the years. These systems use…

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Training deep neural networks is challenging when large and annotated datasets are unavailable. Extensive manual annotation of data samples is time-consuming, expensive, and error-prone, notably when it needs to be done by experts. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Barbara C Benato , Alexandru C Telea , Alexandre X Falcão

This manuscript presents a novel, tightly integrated pipeline for estimating a connectome, which is a comprehensive description of the neural circuits in the brain. The pipeline utilizes magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data to produce a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2011-11-14 William R. Gray , John A. Bogovic , Joshua T. Vogelstein , Bennett A. Landman , Jerry L. Prince , R. Jacob Vogelstein

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across various image segmentation tasks. However, the process of preparing datasets for training segmentation DNNs is both labor-intensive and costly, as it typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Yixin Zhang , Shen Zhao , Hanxue Gu , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Cellular Electron Cryotomography (CryoET) offers the ability to look inside cells and observe macromolecules frozen in action. A primary challenge for this technique is identifying and extracting the molecular components within the crowded…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-04 Muyuan Chen , Wei Dai , Ying Sun , Darius Jonasch , Cynthia Y He , Michael F. Schmid , Wah Chiu , Steven J Ludtke

High-resolution fingerprint recognition often relies on sophisticated matching algorithms based on hand-crafted keypoint descriptors, with pores being the most common keypoint choice. Our method is the opposite of the prevalent approach: we…

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Neural circuits can be reconstructed from brain images acquired by serial section electron microscopy. Image analysis has been performed by manual labor for half a century, and efforts at automation date back almost as far. Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Kisuk Lee , Nicholas Turner , Thomas Macrina , Jingpeng Wu , Ran Lu , H. Sebastian Seung

Over the past decade, cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has emerged as a primary method for determining near-native, near-atomic resolution 3D structures of biological macromolecules. In order to meet increasing demand for cryo-EM,…

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