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Weakly supervised nuclei segmentation is a critical problem for pathological image analysis and greatly benefits the community due to the significant reduction of labeling cost. Adopting point annotations, previous methods mostly rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Weizhen Liu , Qian He , Xuming He

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

We present a weakly supervised deep learning method to perform instance segmentation of cells present in microscopy images. Annotation of biomedical images in the lab can be scarce, incomplete, and inaccurate. This is of concern when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Fidel A. Guerrero-Peña , Pedro D. Marrero Fernandez , Tsang Ing Ren , Alexandre Cunha

Brain tumor segmentation remains challenging because the three standard sub-regions, i.e., whole tumor (WT), tumor core (TC), and enhancing tumor (ET), often exhibit ambiguous visual boundaries. Integrating radiological description texts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Bahram Mohammadi , Ta Duc Huy , Afrouz Sheikholeslami , Qi Chen , Vu Minh Hieu Phan , Sam White , Minh-Son To , Xuyun Zhang , Amin Beheshti , Luping Zhou , Yuankai Qi

The success of deep networks in medical image segmentation relies heavily on massive labeled training data. However, acquiring dense annotations is a time-consuming process. Weakly-supervised methods normally employ less expensive forms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Mu Tian , Qinzhu Yang , Yi Gao

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

In the last few years, deep learning classifiers have shown promising results in image-based medical diagnosis. However, interpreting the outputs of these models remains a challenge. In cancer diagnosis, interpretability can be achieved by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Kangning Liu , Yiqiu Shen , Nan Wu , Jakub Chłędowski , Carlos Fernandez-Granda , Krzysztof J. Geras

Weakly supervised segmentation is an important problem in medical image analysis due to the high cost of pixelwise annotation. Prior methods, while often focusing on weak labels of 2D images, exploit few structural cues of volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Qian He , Shuailin Li , Xuming He

Segmentation in medical imaging is an essential and often preliminary task in the image processing chain, driving numerous efforts towards the design of robust segmentation algorithms. Supervised learning methods achieve excellent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-03 Pierre Rougé , Pierre-Henri Conze , Nicolas Passat , Odyssée Merveille

Weakly supervised segmentation methods can delineate thyroid nodules in ultrasound images efficiently using training data with coarse labels, but suffer from: 1) low-confidence pseudo-labels that follow topological priors, introducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jianning Chi , Zelan Li , Geng Lin , MingYang Sun , Xiaosheng Yu

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

Weakly supervised segmentation requires assigning a label to every pixel based on training instances with partial annotations such as image-level tags, object bounding boxes, labeled points and scribbles. This task is challenging, as coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Tsung-Wei Ke , Jyh-Jing Hwang , Stella X. Yu

We consider weakly supervised segmentation where only a fraction of pixels have ground truth labels (scribbles) and focus on a self-labeling approach optimizing relaxations of the standard unsupervised CRF/Potts loss on unlabeled pixels.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhongwen Zhang , Yuri Boykov

Accurate and reliable brain tumor segmentation is a critical component in cancer diagnosis, treatment planning, and treatment outcome evaluation. Build upon successful deep learning techniques, a novel brain tumor segmentation method is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Xiaomei Zhao , Yihong Wu , Guidong Song , Zhenye Li , Yazhuo Zhang , Yong Fan

Gliomas are the most frequent primary brain tumors in adults. Glioma change detection aims at finding the relevant parts of the image that change over time. Although Deep Learning (DL) shows promising performances in similar change…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Tommaso Di Noto , Meritxell Bach Cuadra , Chirine Atat , Eduardo Gamito Teiga , Monika Hegi , Andreas Hottinger , Patric Hagmann , Jonas Richiardi

Accurate training labels are a key component for multi-class medical image segmentation. Their annotation is costly and time-consuming because it requires domain expertise. This work aims to develop a dual-branch network and automatically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Jianfei Liu , Christopher Parnell , Ronald M. Summers

Training deep neural networks requires massive amounts of training data, but for many tasks only limited labeled data is available. This makes weak supervision attractive, using weak or noisy signals like the output of heuristic methods or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Mostafa Dehghani , Aliaksei Severyn , Sascha Rothe , Jaap Kamps

For brain tumour segmentation, deep learning models can achieve human expert-level performance given a large amount of data and pixel-level annotations. However, the expensive exercise of obtaining pixel-level annotations for large amounts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Xiao Liu , Antanas Kascenas , Hannah Watson , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris , Alison Q. O'Neil

Semantic segmentation is crucial in remote sensing, where high-resolution satellite images are segmented into meaningful regions. Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly improved satellite image segmentation. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Santiago Rivier , Carlos Hinojosa , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem

Purpose: Lesion segmentation in medical imaging is key to evaluating treatment response. We have recently shown that reinforcement learning can be applied to radiological images for lesion localization. Furthermore, we demonstrated that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Joseph Stember , Hrithwik Shalu