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Continual learning (CL) is the research field that aims to build machine learning models that can accumulate knowledge continuously over different tasks without retraining from scratch. Previous studies have shown that pre-training graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Wei Wei , Tom De Schepper , Kevin Mets

Despite the significant potential of Foundation Models (FMs) in medical imaging, their application to prognosis prediction remains challenging due to data scarcity, class imbalance, and task complexity, which limit their clinical adoption.…

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In ordinal classification, misclassifying neighboring ranks is common, yet the consequences of these errors are not the same. For example, misclassifying benign tumor categories is less consequential, compared to an error at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Dileepa Pitawela , Gustavo Carneiro , Hsiang-Ting Chen

Continual learning (CL) is widely regarded as crucial challenge for lifelong AI. However, existing CL benchmarks, e.g. Permuted-MNIST and Split-CIFAR, make use of artificial temporal variation and do not align with or generalize to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Zhiqiu Lin , Jia Shi , Deepak Pathak , Deva Ramanan

Vertebrae identification in arbitrary fields-of-view plays a crucial role in diagnosing spine disease. Most spine CT contain only local regions, such as the neck, chest, and abdomen. Therefore, identification should not depend on specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Sheng Zhang , Minheng Chen , Junxian Wu , Ziyue Zhang , Tonglong Li , Cheng Xue , Youyong Kong

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) have recently achieved the best performance in off-line Handwriting Text Recognition. At the same time, learning RNN by gradient descent leads to slow convergence, and training times are particularly long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-12-09 Jérôme Louradour , Christopher Kermorvant

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be state-of-the-art models for supervised computer vision tasks, such as image classification. However, large labeled data sets are generally needed for the training and validation of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Patrick Hemmer , Niklas Kühl , Jakob Schöffer

The morphological changes in knee cartilage (especially femoral and tibial cartilages) are closely related to the progression of knee osteoarthritis, which is expressed by magnetic resonance (MR) images and assessed on the cartilage…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Dong Liang , Jun Liu , Kuanquan Wang , Gongning Luo , Wei Wang , Shuo Li

Continual learning (CL) is essential for deploying medical image segmentation models in clinical environments where imaging domains, anatomical targets, and diagnostic tasks evolve over time. However, continual segmentation still faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Bomin Wang , Hangqi Zhou , Yibo Gao , Xiahai Zhuang

Mammography is used as a standard screening procedure for the potential patients of breast cancer. Over the past decade, it has been shown that deep learning techniques have succeeded in reaching near-human performance in a number of tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Jun Luo , Dooman Arefan , Margarita Zuley , Jules Sumkin , Shandong Wu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently shown tremendous potential to learn generic visual representations useful for many image analysis tasks. Despite their notable success, the existing SSL methods fail to generalize to downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Chetan L Srinidhi , Anne L Martel

While Curriculum Learning (CL) has recently gained traction in Natural language Processing Tasks, it is still not adequately analyzed. Previous works only show their effectiveness but fail short to explain and interpret the internal…

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Accurately segmenting different organs from medical images is a critical prerequisite for computer-assisted diagnosis and intervention planning. This study proposes a deep learning-based approach for segmenting various organs from CT and…

Recent work has shown the potential of graph neural networks to efficiently predict material properties, enabling high-throughput screening of materials. Training these models, however, often requires large quantities of labelled data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Teddy Koker , Keegan Quigley , Will Spaeth , Nathan C. Frey , Lin Li

The usage of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for unsupervised image segmentation was investigated in this study. In the proposed approach, label prediction and network parameter learning are alternately iterated to meet the following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Wonjik Kim , Asako Kanezaki , Masayuki Tanaka

Osteoporosis induced fractures occur worldwide about every 3 seconds. Vertebral compression fractures are early signs of the disease and considered risk predictors for secondary osteoporotic fractures. We present a detection method to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-06 Joeri Nicolaes , Steven Raeymaeckers , David Robben , Guido Wilms , Dirk Vandermeulen , Cesar Libanati , Marc Debois

SimCLR is one of the most popular contrastive learning methods for vision tasks. It pre-trains deep neural networks based on a large amount of unlabeled data by teaching the model to distinguish between positive and negative pairs of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Han Zhang , Yuan Cao

The self-supervised ultrasound (US) video model pretraining can use a small amount of labeled data to achieve one of the most promising results on US diagnosis. However, it does not take full advantage of multi-level knowledge for learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Chunhui Zhang , Yixiong Chen , Li Liu , Qiong Liu , Xi Zhou

The diagnostic accuracy and subjectivity of existing Knee Osteoarthritis (OA) ordinal grading systems has been a subject of on-going debate and concern. Existing automated solutions are trained to emulate these imperfect systems, whilst…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Niamh Belton , Aonghus Lawlor , Kathleen M. Curran

Vertebral body compression fractures are reliable early signs of osteoporosis. Though these fractures are visible on Computed Tomography (CT) images, they are frequently missed by radiologists in clinical settings. Prior research on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Maxim Pisov , Vladimir Kondratenko , Alexey Zakharov , Alexey Petraikin , Victor Gombolevskiy , Sergey Morozov , Mikhail Belyaev