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The success of deep learning methods in medical image segmentation tasks usually requires a large amount of labeled data. However, obtaining reliable annotations is expensive and time-consuming. Semi-supervised learning has attracted much…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Yichi Zhang , Jicong Zhang

Sclera segmentation is crucial for developing automatic eye-related medical computer-aided diagnostic systems, as well as for personal identification and verification, because the sclera contains distinct personal features. Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Guanjun Wang , Lu Wang , Ning Niu , Qiaoyi Yao , Yixuan Wang , Sufen Ren , Shengchao Chen

$\bf{Purpose:}$ The goal of this study was (i) to use artificial intelligence to automate the traditionally labor-intensive process of manual segmentation of tumor regions in pathology slides performed by a pathologist and (ii) to validate…

We tackle biomedical image segmentation in the scenario of only a few labeled brain MR images. This is an important and challenging task in medical applications, where manual annotations are time-consuming. Current multi-atlas based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Hyeon Woo Lee , Mert R. Sabuncu , Adrian V. Dalca

Instance segmentation enables the analysis of spatial and temporal properties of cells in microscopy images by identifying the pixels belonging to each cell. However, progress is constrained by the scarcity of high-quality labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kaden Stillwagon , Alexandra Dunnum VandeLoo , Benjamin Magondu , Craig R. Forest

Segmentation of objects in microscopy images is required for many biomedical applications. We introduce object-centric embeddings (OCEs), which embed image patches such that the spatial offsets between patches cropped from the same object…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Steffen Wolf , Manan Lalit , Henry Westmacott , Katie McDole , Jan Funke

In the effort to aid cytologic diagnostics by establishing automatic single cell screening using high throughput digital holographic microscopy for clinical studies thousands of images and millions of cells are captured. The bottleneck lies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Julia Sistermanns , Ellen Emken , Gregor Weirich , Oliver Hayden , Wolfgang Utschick

Segmentation of biomedical images can assist radiologists to make a better diagnosis and take decisions faster by helping in the detection of abnormalities, such as tumors. Manual or semi-automated segmentation, however, can be a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Dhanunjaya Mitta , Soumick Chatterjee , Oliver Speck , Andreas Nürnberger

Semantic segmentation is a challenging task in the absence of densely labelled data. Only relying on class activation maps (CAM) with image-level labels provides deficient segmentation supervision. Prior works thus consider pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Lian Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Ferdous Sohel , Dan Xu

The task of blood vessel segmentation in microscopy images is crucial for many diagnostic and research applications. However, vessels can look vastly different, depending on the transient imaging conditions, and collecting data for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-19 Shir Gur , Lior Wolf , Lior Golgher , Pablo Blinder

The recent surge in performance for image analysis of digitised pathology slides can largely be attributed to the advances in deep learning. Deep models can be used to initially localise various structures in the tissue and hence facilitate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Simon Graham , Quoc Dang Vu , Mostafa Jahanifar , Shan E Ahmed Raza , Fayyaz Minhas , David Snead , Nasir Rajpoot

Cell segmentation is a major bottleneck in extracting quantitative single-cell information from microscopy data. The challenge is exasperated in the setting of microstructured environments. While deep learning approaches have proven useful…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-08 Tim Prangemeier , Christian Wildner , André O. Françani , Christoph Reich , Heinz Koeppl

Image segmentation is a critical step in computational biomedical image analysis, typically evaluated using metrics like the Dice coefficient during training and validation. However, in clinical settings without manual annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Sikha O K , Meritxell Riera-Marín , Adrian Galdran , Javier García Lopez , Julia Rodríguez-Comas , Gemma Piella , Miguel A. González Ballester

Cell detection and segmentation is fundamental for all downstream analysis of digital pathology images. However, obtaining the pixel-level ground truth for single cell segmentation is extremely labor intensive. To overcome this challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Alireza Chamanzar , Yao Nie

In the domain of battery research, the processing of high-resolution microscopy images is a challenging task, as it involves dealing with complex images and requires a prior understanding of the components involved. The utilization of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Ganesh Raghavendran , Bing Han , Fortune Adekogbe , Shuang Bai , Bingyu Lu , William Wu , Minghao Zhang , Ying Shirley Meng

One of the most significant challenges in the field of deep learning and medical image segmentation is to determine an appropriate threshold for classifying each pixel. This threshold is a value above which the model's output is considered…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Ali Fayzi , Mohammad Fayzi , Mostafa Forotan

In this study, a multi-task deep neural network is proposed for skin lesion analysis. The proposed multi-task learning model solves different tasks (e.g., lesion segmentation and two independent binary lesion classifications) at the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Xulei Yang , Zeng Zeng , Si Yong Yeo , Colin Tan , Hong Liang Tey , Yi Su

We propose an automatic preprocessing and ensemble learning for segmentation of cell images with low quality. It is difficult to capture cells with strong light. Therefore, the microscopic images of cells tend to have low image quality but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Sota Kato , Kazuhiro Hotta

Medical image segmentation has significantly benefitted thanks to deep learning architectures. Furthermore, semi-supervised learning (SSL) has recently been a growing trend for improving a model's overall performance by leveraging abundant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 S. M. Kamrul Hasan , Cristian A. Linte

Automatic segmentation of liver tumors in medical images is crucial for the computer-aided diagnosis and therapy. It is a challenging task, since the tumors are notoriously small against the background voxels. This paper proposes a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-18 Huiyu Li , Xiabi Liu , Said Boumaraf , Weihua Liu , Xiaopeng Gong , Xiaohong Ma