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Understanding a surgical scene is crucial for computer-assisted surgery systems to provide any intelligent assistance functionality. One way of achieving this scene understanding is via scene segmentation, where every pixel of a frame is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Alexander C. Jenke , Sebastian Bodenstedt , Fiona R. Kolbinger , Marius Distler , Jürgen Weitz , Stefanie Speidel

A Pyramid Attention Network(PAN) is proposed to exploit the impact of global contextual information in semantic segmentation. Different from most existing works, we combine attention mechanism and spatial pyramid to extract precise dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Hanchao Li , Pengfei Xiong , Jie An , Lingxue Wang

Semantic segmentation is a critical step in automated image interpretation and analysis where pixels are classified into one or more predefined semantically meaningful classes. Deep learning approaches for semantic segmentation rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Tushar Kataria , Beatrice Knudsen , Shireen Elhabian

Deep learning models, such as the fully convolutional network (FCN), have been widely used in 3D biomedical segmentation and achieved state-of-the-art performance. Multiple modalities are often used for disease diagnosis and quantification.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-23 Yu Chen , Jiawei Chen , Dong Wei , Yuexiang Li , Yefeng Zheng

Medical image segmentation is a critical task in computer vision, with UNet serving as a milestone architecture. The typical component of UNet family is the skip connection, however, their skip connections face two significant limitations:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Quansong He , Xiangde Min , Kaishen Wang , Tao He

In clinical practice, medical segmentation datasets are often limited and heterogeneous, with variations in modalities, protocols, and anatomical targets across institutions. Existing deep learning models struggle to jointly learn from such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Weiwei Ma , Xiaobing Yu , Peijie Qiu , Jin Yang , Pan Xiao , Xiaoqi Zhao , Xiaofeng Liu , Tomo Miyazaki , Shinichiro Omachi , Yongsong Huang

Semi-supervised learning addresses the issue of limited annotations in medical images effectively, but its performance is often inadequate for complex backgrounds and challenging tasks. Multi-modal fusion methods can significantly improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Dongdong Meng , Sheng Li , Hao Wu , Guoping Wang , Xueqing Yan

Multi-task learning aims to improve generalization performance of multiple prediction tasks by appropriately sharing relevant information across them. In the context of deep neural networks, this idea is often realized by hand-designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yongxi Lu , Abhishek Kumar , Shuangfei Zhai , Yu Cheng , Tara Javidi , Rogerio Feris

Deep learning techniques for 3D brain vessel image segmentation have not been as successful as in the segmentation of other organs and tissues. This can be explained by two factors. First, deep learning techniques tend to show poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Vien Ngoc Dang , Francesco Galati , Rosa Cortese , Giuseppe Di Giacomo , Viola Marconetto , Prateek Mathur , Karim Lekadir , Marco Lorenzi , Ferran Prados , Maria A. Zuluaga

Multi-modal medical image segmentation plays an essential role in clinical diagnosis. It remains challenging as the input modalities are often not well-aligned spatially. Existing learning-based methods mainly consider sharing trainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Jingkun Chen , Wenqi Li , Hongwei Li , Jianguo Zhang

Accurate and robust segmentation of small organs in whole-body MRI is difficult due to anatomical variation and class imbalance. Recent deep network based approaches have demonstrated promising performance on abdominal multi-organ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Vanya V. Valindria , Ioannis Lavdas , Juan Cerrolaza , Eric O. Aboagye , Andrea G. Rockall , Daniel Rueckert , Ben Glocker

This paper proposes a new active learning method for semantic segmentation. The core of our method lies in a new annotation query design. It samples informative local image regions (e.g., superpixels), and for each of such regions, asks an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Sehyun Hwang , Sohyun Lee , Hoyoung Kim , Minhyeon Oh , Jungseul Ok , Suha Kwak

Harvesting dense pixel-level annotations to train deep neural networks for semantic segmentation is extremely expensive and unwieldy at scale. While learning from synthetic data where labels are readily available sounds promising,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Zuxuan Wu , Xintong Han , Yen-Liang Lin , Mustafa Gkhan Uzunbas , Tom Goldstein , Ser Nam Lim , Larry S. Davis

Partially-supervised learning can be challenging for segmentation due to the lack of supervision for unlabeled structures, and the methods directly applying fully-supervised learning could lead to incompatibility, meaning ground truth is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ke Zhang , Xiahai Zhuang

Image segmentation and classification are the two main fundamental steps in pattern recognition. To perform medical image segmentation or classification with deep learning models, it requires training on large image dataset with annotation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Anandhanarayanan Kamalakannan , Shiva Shankar Ganesan , Govindaraj Rajamanickam

U-shaped architectures have long dominated the field of medical image segmentation, while Transformers are widely employed for modeling long-range dependencies. The former typically handles scale variations implicitly by aggregating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yanhua Zhang , Ke Zhang , Jingyu Wang , Gabriella Balestra , Samanta Rosati , Yulin Wu , Wuwei Wang , Valentina Giannini

Biomedical image segmentation is critical for precise structure delineation and downstream analysis. Traditional methods often struggle with noisy data, while deep learning models such as U-Net have set new benchmarks in segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Shuo Zhao , Yu Zhou , Jianxu Chen

This paper presents FeTal-SAM, a novel adaptation of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) tailored for fetal brain MRI segmentation. Traditional deep learning methods often require large annotated datasets for a fixed set of labels, making them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Qi Zeng , Weide Liu , Bo Li , Ryne Didier , P. Ellen Grant , Davood Karimi

Biomedical image segmentation plays a significant role in computer-aided diagnosis. However, existing CNN based methods rely heavily on massive manual annotations, which are very expensive and require huge human resources. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Ruifei Zhang , Sishuo Liu , Yizhou Yu , Guanbin Li

Medical image segmentation is a key task in the imaging workflow, influencing many image-based decisions. Traditional, fully-supervised segmentation models rely on large amounts of labeled training data, typically obtained through manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Tyler Ward , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran