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Traditional image-based survival prediction models rely on discriminative patch labeling which make those methods not scalable to extend to large datasets. Recent studies have shown Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) framework is useful for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Jiawen Yao , Xinliang Zhu , Jitendra Jonnagaddala , Nicholas Hawkins , Junzhou Huang

Instance- and Label-dependent label Noise (ILN) widely exists in real-world datasets but has been rarely studied. In this paper, we focus on Bounded Instance- and Label-dependent label Noise (BILN), a particular case of ILN where the label…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-14 Jiacheng Cheng , Tongliang Liu , Kotagiri Ramamohanarao , Dacheng Tao

Analyzing high resolution whole slide images (WSIs) with regard to information across multiple scales poses a significant challenge in digital pathology. Multi-instance learning (MIL) is a common solution for working with high resolution…

Lesion appearance is a crucial clue for medical providers to distinguish referable diabetic retinopathy (rDR) from non-referable DR. Most existing large-scale DR datasets contain only image-level labels rather than pixel-based annotations.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Wenhui Zhu , Peijie Qiu , Natasha Lepore , Oana M. Dumitrascu , Yalin Wang

This document describes a novel learning algorithm that classifies "bags" of instances rather than individual instances. A bag is labeled positive if it contains at least one positive instance (which may or may not be specifically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Ramasubramanian Sundararajan , Hima Patel , Manisha Srivastava

We present a comprehensive study of the use of generative modeling approaches for Multiple-Instance Learning (MIL) problems. In MIL a learner receives training instances grouped together into bags with labels for the bags only (which might…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Tameem Adel , Benn Smith , Ruth Urner , Daniel Stashuk , Daniel J. Lizotte

The quantity and the quality of the training labels are central problems in high-resolution land-cover mapping with machine-learning-based solutions. In this context, weak labels can be gathered in large quantities by leveraging on existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Gianmarco Perantoni , Lorenzo Bruzzone

In computational pathology, weak supervision has become the standard for deep learning due to the gigapixel scale of WSIs and the scarcity of pixel-level annotations, with Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) established as the principal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Andreas Lolos , Theofilos Christodoulou , Aris L. Moustakas , Stergios Christodoulidis , Maria Vakalopoulou

Deep-learning models based on whole-slide digital pathology images (WSIs) become increasingly popular for predicting molecular biomarkers. Instance-based models has been the mainstream strategy for predicting genetic alterations using WSIs…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-02 Bangwei Guo , Xingyu Li , Miaomiao Yang , Hong Zhang , Xu Steven Xu

This paper presents the first attempt to learn semantic boundary detection using image-level class labels as supervision. Our method starts by estimating coarse areas of object classes through attentions drawn by an image classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Namyup Kim , Sehyun Hwang , Suha Kwak

Uncertainty estimation (UE), as an effective means of quantifying predictive uncertainty, is crucial for safe and reliable decision-making, especially in high-risk scenarios. Existing UE schemes usually assume that there are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Pei Liu , Luping Ji

This paper considers a novel application of deep AUC maximization (DAM) for multi-instance learning (MIL), in which a single class label is assigned to a bag of instances (e.g., multiple 2D slices of a CT scan for a patient). We address a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Dixian Zhu , Bokun Wang , Zhi Chen , Yaxing Wang , Milan Sonka , Xiaodong Wu , Tianbao Yang

While multiple instance learning (MIL) has shown to be a promising approach for histopathological whole slide image (WSI) analysis, its reliance on permutation invariance significantly limits its capacity to effectively uncover semantic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-14 Xiwen Chen , Peijie Qiu , Wenhui Zhu , Hao Wang , Huayu Li , Xuanzhao Dong , Xiaotong Sun , Xiaobing Yu , Yalin Wang , Abolfazl Razi , Aristeidis Sotiras

An important task at the onset of a laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) operation is the inspection of gallbladder (GB) to evaluate the thickness of its wall, presence of inflammation and extent of fat. Difficulty in visualization of the GB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 C. Loukas , A. Gazis , D. Schizas

Weakly-supervised audio-visual violence detection aims to distinguish snippets containing multimodal violence events with video-level labels. Many prior works perform audio-visual integration and interaction in an early or intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Jiashuo Yu , Jinyu Liu , Ying Cheng , Rui Feng , Yuejie Zhang

Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection (WSVAD) is challenging because the binary anomaly label is only given on the video level, but the output requires snippet-level predictions. So, Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) is prevailing in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Hui Lv , Zhongqi Yue , Qianru Sun , Bin Luo , Zhen Cui , Hanwang Zhang

We consider training classifiers for 3D medical images using only one binary label for the entire volume rather than a label for each 2D slice. In such weakly supervised settings, can we learn accurate classifiers for slice-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ethan Harvey , Dennis Johan Loevlie , Michael C. Hughes

In multi-label classification, each training instance is associated with multiple class labels simultaneously. Unfortunately, collecting the fully precise class labels for each training instance is time- and labor-consuming for real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Meng Wei , Zhongnian Li , Peng Ying , Yong Zhou , Xinzheng Xu

Whole slide image (WSI) refers to a type of high-resolution scanned tissue image, which is extensively employed in computer-assisted diagnosis (CAD). The extremely high resolution and limited availability of region-level annotations make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ruijie Zhang , Qiaozhe Zhang , Yingzhuang Liu , Hao Xin , Yan Liu , Xinggang Wang

Attention-based multiple instance learning (AMIL) algorithms have proven to be successful in utilizing gigapixel whole-slide images (WSIs) for a variety of different computational pathology tasks such as outcome prediction and cancer…