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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

Although existing semantic segmentation approaches achieve impressive results, they still struggle to update their models incrementally as new categories are uncovered. Furthermore, pixel-by-pixel annotations are expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Fabio Cermelli , Dario Fontanel , Antonio Tavera , Marco Ciccone , Barbara Caputo

Semi-supervised 3D medical image segmentation aims to achieve accurate segmentation using few labelled data and numerous unlabelled data. The main challenge in the design of semi-supervised learning methods consists in the effective use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yanyan Wang , Kechen Song , Yuyuan Liu , Shuai Ma , Yunhui Yan , Gustavo Carneiro

The performance of deep learning based semantic segmentation models heavily depends on sufficient data with careful annotations. However, even the largest public datasets only provide samples with pixel-level annotations for rather limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Huaxin Xiao , Yunchao Wei , Yu Liu , Maojun Zhang , Jiashi Feng

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation receives much research attention since it alleviates the need to obtain a large amount of dense pixel-wise ground-truth annotations for the training images. Compared with other forms of weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Tianyi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Jianfei Cai , Tong Shen , Chunhua Shen , Alex C. Kot

Training deep networks with limited labeled data while achieving a strong generalization ability is key in the quest to reduce human annotation efforts. This is the goal of semi-supervised learning, which exploits more widely available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Daiqing Li , Junlin Yang , Karsten Kreis , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

Segmentation using deep learning has shown promising directions in medical imaging as it aids in the analysis and diagnosis of diseases. Nevertheless, a main drawback of deep models is that they require a large amount of pixel-level labels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Sukesh Adiga , Jose Dolz , Herve Lombaert

The success of deep learning methods in medical image segmentation tasks heavily depends on a large amount of labeled data to supervise the training. On the other hand, the annotation of biomedical images requires domain knowledge and can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Xinrong Hu , Dewen Zeng , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved significant progress in medical image segmentation (SSMIS) through effective utilization of limited labeled data. While current SSL methods for medical images predominantly rely on consistency…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Mengzhu Wang , Jiao Li , Shanshan Wang , Long Lan , Huibin Tan , Liang Yang , Guoli Yang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging task as it only takes image-level information as supervision for training but produces pixel-level predictions for testing. To address such a challenging task, most recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Bingfeng Zhang , Jimin Xiao , Yunchao Wei , Mingjie Sun , Kaizhu Huang

Tissue-level semantic segmentation is a vital step in computational pathology. Fully-supervised models have already achieved outstanding performance with dense pixel-level annotations. However, drawing such labels on the giga-pixel whole…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-18 Chu Han , Jiatai Lin , Jinhai Mai , Yi Wang , Qingling Zhang , Bingchao Zhao , Xin Chen , Xipeng Pan , Zhenwei Shi , Xiaowei Xu , Su Yao , Lixu Yan , Huan Lin , Zeyan Xu , Xiaomei Huang , Guoqiang Han , Changhong Liang , Zaiyi Liu

The performance of supervised deep learning methods for medical image segmentation is often limited by the scarcity of labeled data. As a promising research direction, semi-supervised learning addresses this dilemma by leveraging unlabeled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-13 Zihang Liu , Chunhui Zhao

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation helps assist diagnosis and accelerate the treatment process while the model training usually requires large-scale dense annotation datasets. Weakly semi-supervised medical image segmentation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Shiman Li , Jiayue Zhao , Shaolei Liu , Xiaokun Dai , Chenxi Zhang , Zhijian Song

Semi-supervised learning has attracted much attention in medical image segmentation due to challenges in acquiring pixel-wise image annotations, which is a crucial step for building high-performance deep learning methods. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Shuailin Li , Chuyu Zhang , Xuming He

Deep neural networks produce state-of-the-art results when trained on a large number of labeled examples but tend to overfit when small amounts of labeled examples are used for training. Creating a large number of labeled examples requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Attaullah Sahito , Eibe Frank , Bernhard Pfahringer

Training a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for semantic segmentation typically requires to collect a large amount of accurate pixel-level annotations, a hard and expensive task. In contrast, simple image tags are easier to gather. With…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Carolina Redondo-Cabrera , Marcos Baptista-Ríos , Roberto J. López-Sastre

Deep convolutional neural networks are widely used in medical image segmentation but require many labeled images for training. Annotating three-dimensional medical images is a time-consuming and costly process. To overcome this limitation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Weiyi Xie , Nathalie Willems , Nikolas Lessmann , Tom Gibbons , Daniele De Massari

Current 3D semi-supervised segmentation methods face significant challenges such as limited consideration of contextual information and the inability to generate reliable pseudo-labels for effective unsupervised data use. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Yury Velichko , Ulas Bagci , Dorit Merhof

Weak-strong consistency learning strategies are widely employed in semi-supervised medical image segmentation to train models by leveraging limited labeled data and enforcing weak-to-strong consistency. However, existing methods primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Chaowei Chen , Xiang Zhang , Honglie Guo , Shunfang Wang

Obtaining pixel-level annotations in the medical domain is both expensive and time-consuming, often requiring close collaboration between clinical experts and developers. Semi-supervised medical image segmentation aims to leverage limited…

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