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Recent developed deep unsupervised methods allow us to jointly learn representation and cluster unlabelled data. These deep clustering methods mainly focus on the correlation among samples, e.g., selecting high precision pairs to gradually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Jianlong Wu , Keyu Long , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Cheng Li , Zhouchen Lin , Hongbin Zha

Deep models, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformer (ViT), demonstrate remarkable performance in image classification. However, those deep models require large data to fine-tune, which is impractical in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yihang Wu , Muhammad Owais , Reem Kateb , Ahmad Chaddad

Deep models based on vision transformer (ViT) and convolutional neural network (CNN) have demonstrated remarkable performance on natural datasets. However, these models may not be similar in medical imaging, where abnormal regions cover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ahmad Chaddad , Yihang Wu , Xianrui Chen

Insufficiently precise diagnosis of clinical disease is likely responsible for many treatment failures, even for common conditions and treatments. With a large enough dataset, it may be possible to use unsupervised machine learning to…

This paper presents a CLIP-based unsupervised learning method for annotation-free multi-label image classification, including three stages: initialization, training, and inference. At the initialization stage, we take full advantage of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Rabab Abdelfattah , Qing Guo , Xiaoguang Li , Xiaofeng Wang , Song Wang

The majority of cancer treatments end in failure due to Intra-Tumor Heterogeneity (ITH). ITH in cancer is represented by clonal evolution where different sub-clones compete with each other for resources under conditions of Darwinian natural…

Monitoring plankton populations in situ is fundamental to preserve the aquatic ecosystem. Plankton microorganisms are in fact susceptible of minor environmental perturbations, that can reflect into consequent morphological and dynamical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Paolo Didier Alfano , Marco Rando , Marco Letizia , Francesca Odone , Lorenzo Rosasco , Vito Paolo Pastore

The application of AI in oncology has been limited by its reliance on large, annotated datasets and the need for retraining models for domain-specific diagnostic tasks. Taking heed of these limitations, we investigated in-context learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Mobina Shrestha , Bishwas Mandal , Vishal Mandal , Asis Shrestha

Histopathology image analysis plays a critical role in cancer diagnosis and treatment. To automatically segment the cancerous regions, fully supervised segmentation algorithms require labor-intensive and time-consuming labeling at the pixel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-29 Gang Xu , Zhigang Song , Zhuo Sun , Calvin Ku , Zhe Yang , Cancheng Liu , Shuhao Wang , Jianpeng Ma , Wei Xu

Gastric cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, but no guideline-recommended screening test exists. Existing methods can be invasive, expensive, and lack sensitivity to identify early-stage gastric cancer.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Mingze Yuan , Yingda Xia , Xin Chen , Jiawen Yao , Junli Wang , Mingyan Qiu , Hexin Dong , Jingren Zhou , Bin Dong , Le Lu , Li Zhang , Zaiyi Liu , Ling Zhang

Identification of disease subtypes and corresponding biomarkers can substantially improve clinical diagnosis and treatment selection. Discovering these subtypes in noisy, high dimensional biomedical data is often impossible for humans and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-18 Marc-Andre Schulz , Matt Chapman-Rounds , Manisha Verma , Danilo Bzdok , Konstantinos Georgatzis

Clustering is a well-known unsupervised machine learning approach capable of automatically grouping discrete sets of instances with similar characteristics. Constrained clustering is a semi-supervised extension to this process that can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Germán González-Almagro , Daniel Peralta , Eli De Poorter , José-Ramón Cano , Salvador García

With the advanced imaging technology, digital pathology imaging of tumor tissue slides is becoming a routine clinical procedure for cancer diagnosis. This process produces massive imaging data that capture histological details in high…

Applications · Statistics 2020-12-10 Esteban Fernández Morales , Cong Zhang , Guanghua Xiao , Chul Moon , Qiwei Li

Breast cancer has the highest mortality among cancers in women. Computer-aided pathology to analyze microscopic histopathology images for diagnosis with an increasing number of breast cancer patients can bring the cost and delays of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Abhijeet Patil , Dipesh Tamboli , Swati Meena , Deepak Anand , Amit Sethi

Histopathologic Images (HI) are the gold standard for evaluation of some tumors. However, the analysis of such images is challenging even for experienced pathologists, resulting in problems of inter and intra observer. Besides that, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Jonathan de Matos , Alceu de Souza Britto , Luiz E. S. Oliveira , Alessandro L. Koerich

This paper aims at providing insight on the transferability of deep CNN features to unsupervised problems. We study the impact of different pretrained CNN feature extractors on the problem of image set clustering for object classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Joris Guérin , Olivier Gibaru , Stéphane Thiery , Eric Nyiri

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. Early-stage diagnosis of breast cancer can significantly improve the efficiency of treatment. Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems are widely adopted in this issue due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Mohammad Reza Abbasniya , Sayed Ali Sheikholeslamzadeh , Hamid Nasiri , Samaneh Emami

Model-based clustering is widely used for identifying and distinguishing types of diseases. However, modern biomedical data coming with high dimensions make it challenging to perform the model estimation in traditional cluster analysis. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-22 Kazeem Kareem , Fan Dai

This paper explores the problem of breast tissue classification of microscopy images. Based on the predominant cancer type the goal is to classify images into four categories of normal, benign, in situ carcinoma, and invasive carcinoma.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Kamyar Nazeri , Azad Aminpour , Mehran Ebrahimi

Classifying breast cancer molecular subtypes is crucial for tailoring treatment strategies. While immunohistochemistry (IHC) and gene expression profiling are standard methods for molecular subtyping, IHC can be subjective, and gene…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Masoud Tafavvoghi , Anders Sildnes , Mehrdad Rakaee , Nikita Shvetsov , Lars Ailo Bongo , Lill-Tove Rasmussen Busund , Kajsa Møllersen