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The semantic image segmentation task consists of classifying each pixel of an image into an instance, where each instance corresponds to a class. This task is a part of the concept of scene understanding or better explaining the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Kumar Abhishek , Joseph Paul Cohen , Julien Cohen-Adad , Ghassan Hamarneh

Automatic segmentation methods are an important advancement in medical image analysis. Machine learning techniques, and deep neural networks in particular, are the state-of-the-art for most medical image segmentation tasks. Issues with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-25 Michael Yeung , Evis Sala , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Leonardo Rundo

Segmentation of medical images constitutes an essential component of medical image analysis, providing the foundation for precise diagnosis and efficient therapeutic interventions in clinical practices. Despite substantial progress, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Muzammal Shafique , Nasir Rahim , Jamil Ahmad , Mohammad Siadat , Khalid Malik , Ghaus Malik

Loss functions are error metrics that quantify the difference between a prediction and its corresponding ground truth. Fundamentally, they define a functional landscape for traversal by gradient descent. Although numerous loss functions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Chaitanya Kaul , Nick Pears , Hang Dai , Roderick Murray-Smith , Suresh Manandhar

This paper presents a study on the soft-Dice loss, one of the most popular loss functions in medical image segmentation, for situations where noise is present in target labels. In particular, the set of optimal solutions are characterized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Marcus Nordström , Henrik Hult , Atsuto Maki , Fredrik Löfman

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have proven to be remarkably effective in semantic segmentation tasks. Most popular loss functions were introduced targeting improved volumetric scores, such as the Dice coefficient (DSC). By design,…

Semantic segmentation classifies each pixel in the image. Due to its advantages, semantic segmentation is used in many tasks, such as cancer detection, robot-assisted surgery, satellite image analysis, and self-driving cars. Accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Reihaneh Teymoori , Zahra Nabizadeh , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Accurate brain image segmentation, particularly for distinguishing various tissues from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images, plays a pivotal role in finding the neurological dis ease and medical image computing. In deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hanuman Verma , Akshansh Gupta , Pranabesh Maji , Saurav Mandal , Vijay Kumar Pandey

Semantic segmentation is essentially important to biomedical image analysis. Many recent works mainly focus on integrating the Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) architecture with sophisticated convolution implementation and deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Xuhua Ren , Lichi Zhang , Sahar Ahmad , Dong Nie , Fan Yang , Lei Xiang , Qian Wang , Dinggang Shen

Learning to segment images purely by relying on the image-text alignment from web data can lead to sub-optimal performance due to noise in the data. The noise comes from the samples where the associated text does not correlate with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Yash Patel , Yusheng Xie , Yi Zhu , Srikar Appalaraju , R. Manmatha

Recent advances in deep learning have pushed the performances of visual saliency models way further than it has ever been. Numerous models in the literature present new ways to design neural networks, to arrange gaze pattern data, or to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Alexandre Bruckert , Hamed R. Tavakoli , Zhi Liu , Marc Christie , Olivier Le Meur

Semantic image segmentation, which becomes one of the key applications in image processing and computer vision domain, has been used in multiple domains such as medical area and intelligent transportation. Lots of benchmark datasets are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Xiaolong Liu , Zhidong Deng , Yuhan Yang

The technology of image segmentation is widely used in medical image processing, face recognition pedestrian detection, etc. The current image segmentation techniques include region-based segmentation, edge detection segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Song Yuheng , Yan Hao

We introduce a new method for generating color images from sketches or edge maps. Current methods either require some form of additional user-guidance or are limited to the "paired" translation approach. We argue that segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Samet Hicsonmez , Nermin Samet , Emre Akbas , Pinar Duygulu

From the autonomous car driving to medical diagnosis, the requirement of the task of image segmentation is everywhere. Segmentation of an image is one of the indispensable tasks in computer vision. This task is comparatively complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Farhana Sultana , Abu Sufian , Paramartha Dutta

Rich and accurate medical image segmentation is poised to underpin the next generation of AI-defined clinical practice by delineating critical anatomy for pre-operative planning, guiding real-time intra-operative navigation, and supporting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Junwen Wang , Oscar MacCormac , William Rochford , Aaron Kujawa , Jonathan Shapey , Tom Vercauteren

Today, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated state of the art performance for supervised medical image segmentation, across various imaging modalities and tasks. Despite early success, segmentation networks may still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Rosana El Jurdi , Caroline Petitjean , Paul Honeine , Veronika Cheplygina , Fahed Abdallah

Semantic image segmentation is one of the most challenged tasks in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a highly fused convolutional network, which consists of three parts: feature downsampling, combined feature upsampling and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Tao Yang , Yan Wu , Junqiao Zhao , Linting Guan

As a basic task in computer vision, semantic segmentation can provide fundamental information for object detection and instance segmentation to help the artificial intelligence better understand real world. Since the proposal of fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Jiachi Zhang , Xiaolei Shen , Tianqi Zhuo , Hong Zhou

Semantic instance segmentation remains a challenging task. In this work we propose to tackle the problem with a discriminative loss function, operating at the pixel level, that encourages a convolutional network to produce a representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Bert De Brabandere , Davy Neven , Luc Van Gool