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In few-shot classification, we are interested in learning algorithms that train a classifier from only a handful of labeled examples. Recent progress in few-shot classification has featured meta-learning, in which a parameterized model for…

One paradigm for learning from few labeled examples while making best use of a large amount of unlabeled data is unsupervised pretraining followed by supervised fine-tuning. Although this paradigm uses unlabeled data in a task-agnostic way,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Ting Chen , Simon Kornblith , Kevin Swersky , Mohammad Norouzi , Geoffrey Hinton

Self-supervised pre-training of deep learning models with contrastive learning is a widely used technique in image analysis. Current findings indicate a strong potential for contrastive pre-training on medical images. However, further…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Daniel Wolf , Tristan Payer , Catharina Silvia Lisson , Christoph Gerhard Lisson , Meinrad Beer , Michael Götz , Timo Ropinski

Deep learning has revolutionized medical imaging, but its effectiveness is severely limited by insufficient labeled training data. This paper introduces a novel GAN-based semi-supervised learning framework specifically designed for low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Guido Manni , Clemente Lauretti , Loredana Zollo , Paolo Soda

Purpose: The goal of this work was to develop a deep network for whole-head segmentation including clinical MRIs with abnormal anatomy, and compile the first public benchmark dataset for this purpose. We collected 98 MRIs with volumetric…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Andrew M Birnbaum , Adam Buchwald , Peter Turkeltaub , Adam Jacks , George Carra , Shreya Kannana , Yu Huang , Abhisheck Datta , Lucas C Parra , Lukas A Hirsch

Semi-supervised learning has the potential to improve the data-efficiency of training data-hungry deep neural networks, which is especially important for medical image analysis tasks where labeled data is scarce. In this work, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Boon Peng Yap , Beng Koon Ng

Few-shot learning amounts to learning representations and acquiring knowledge such that novel tasks may be solved with both supervision and data being limited. Improved performance is possible by transductive inference, where the entire…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Michalis Lazarou , Tania Stathaki , Yannis Avrithis

Training neural networks using limited annotations is an important problem in the medical domain. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) typically require large, annotated datasets to achieve acceptable performance which, in the medical domain, are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Bethany H. Thompson , Gaetano Di Caterina , Jeremy P. Voisey

Many successful methods developed for medical image analysis that are based on machine learning use supervised learning approaches, which often require large datasets annotated by experts to achieve high accuracy. However, medical data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Banafshe Felfeliyan , Abhilash Hareendranathan , Gregor Kuntze , David Cornell , Nils D. Forkert , Jacob L. Jaremko , Janet L. Ronsky

We propose a meta-learning method for semi-supervised learning that learns from multiple tasks with heterogeneous attribute spaces. The existing semi-supervised meta-learning methods assume that all tasks share the same attribute space,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Tomoharu Iwata , Atsutoshi Kumagai

Pre-training a recognition model with contrastive learning on a large dataset of unlabeled data has shown great potential to boost the performance of a downstream task, e.g., image classification. However, in domains such as medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jizong Peng , Ping Wang , Chrisitian Desrosiers , Marco Pedersoli

Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved remarkable progress on a variety of medical image computing tasks. A common problem when applying supervised deep learning methods to medical images is the lack of labeled data, which is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Xiaomeng Li , Lequan Yu , Hao Chen , Chi-Wing Fu , Lei Xing , Pheng-Ann Heng

Accurate segmentation of brain vessels is crucial for cerebrovascular disease diagnosis and treatment. However, existing methods face challenges in capturing small vessels and handling datasets that are partially or ambiguously annotated.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Fengming Lin , Yan Xia , Nishant Ravikumar , Qiongyao Liu , Michael MacRaild , Alejandro F Frangi

We present a novel approach to leverage large unlabeled datasets by pre-training state-of-the-art deep neural networks on randomly-labeled datasets. Specifically, we train the neural networks to memorize arbitrary labels for all the samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Vinaychandran Pondenkandath , Michele Alberti , Sammer Puran , Rolf Ingold , Marcus Liwicki

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) trains dense pixel-level segmentation models from partial or coarse annotations such as bounding boxes, scribbles, or image-level tags. While recent work leverages foundation models such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Stefano Colamonaco , Andrei-Bogdan Florea , Jaron Maene

Medical image segmentation has made significant progress when a large amount of labeled data are available. However, annotating medical image segmentation datasets is expensive due to the requirement of professional skills. Additionally,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Tao Wang , Zhongzheng Huang , Jiawei Wu , Yuanzheng Cai , Zuoyong Li

Consistency learning plays a crucial role in semi-supervised medical image segmentation as it enables the effective utilization of limited annotated data while leveraging the abundance of unannotated data. The effectiveness and efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Zhenxi Zhang , Ran Ran , Chunna Tian , Heng Zhou , Xin Li , Fan Yang , Zhicheng Jiao

Most existing works in few-shot learning rely on meta-learning the network on a large base dataset which is typically from the same domain as the target dataset. We tackle the problem of cross-domain few-shot learning where there is a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Ashraful Islam , Chun-Fu Chen , Rameswar Panda , Leonid Karlinsky , Rogerio Feris , Richard J. Radke

Few-shot image classification aims to classify unseen classes with limited labelled samples. Recent works benefit from the meta-learning process with episodic tasks and can fast adapt to class from training to testing. Due to the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Da Chen , Yuefeng Chen , Yuhong Li , Feng Mao , Yuan He , Hui Xue

Automated fetal brain extraction from full-uterus MRI is a challenging task due to variable head sizes, orientations, complex anatomy, and prevalent artifacts. While deep-learning (DL) models trained on synthetic images have been successful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Javid Dadashkarimi , Valeria Pena Trujillo , Camilo Jaimes , Lilla Zöllei , Malte Hoffmann