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Supervised deep learning for semantic segmentation has achieved excellent results in accurately identifying anatomical and pathological structures in medical images. However, it often requires large annotated training datasets, which limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Luca Ciampi , Gabriele Lagani , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi

Consistent surgical instrument segmentation is critical for automation in robot-assisted surgery. Yet, existing methods only treat instrument-level instance segmentation (IIS) or part-level semantic segmentation (PSS) separately, without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Meng Wei , Charlie Budd , Oluwatosin Alabi , Miaojing Shi , Tom Vercauteren

Detection, tracking, and pose estimation of surgical instruments are crucial tasks for computer assistance during minimally invasive robotic surgery. In the majority of cases, the first step is the automatic segmentation of surgical tools.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Daniil Pakhomov , Vittal Premachandran , Max Allan , Mahdi Azizian , Nassir Navab

Surgical tool segmentation in endoscopic videos is an important component of computer assisted interventions systems. Recent success of image-based solutions using fully-supervised deep learning approaches can be attributed to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Manish Sahu , Ronja Strömsdörfer , Anirban Mukhopadhyay , Stefan Zachow

Producing densely annotated data is a difficult and tedious task for medical imaging applications. To address this problem, we propose a novel approach to generate supervision for semi-supervised semantic segmentation. We argue that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-10 Constantin Seibold , Simon Reiß , Jens Kleesiek , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Robot-assisted surgery is an emerging technology which has undergone rapid growth with the development of robotics and imaging systems. Innovations in vision, haptics and accurate movements of robot arms have enabled surgeons to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Mobarakol Islam , Daniel A. Atputharuban , Ravikiran Ramesh , Hongliang Ren

Segmentation for tracking surgical instruments plays an important role in robot-assisted surgery. Segmentation of surgical instruments contributes to capturing accurate spatial information for tracking. In this paper, a novel network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Zhen-Liang Ni , Gui-Bin Bian , Xiao-Liang Xie , Zeng-Guang Hou , Xiao-Hu Zhou , Yan-Jie Zhou

This work proves that semantic segmentation on minimally invasive surgical instruments can be improved by using training data that has been augmented through domain adaptation. The benefit of this method is twofold. Firstly, it suppresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Iñigo Azqueta-Gavaldon , Florian Fröhlich , Klaus Strobl , Rudolph Triebel

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

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image analysis and autonomous driving and has a problem with the high cost of annotating the labels required in training. To address this problem, semantic segmentation methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Nagito Saito , Shintaro Ito , Koichi Ito , Takafumi Aoki

Surgical instrument segmentation (SIS) is pivotal for robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery, assisting surgeons by identifying surgical instruments in endoscopic video frames. Recent unsupervised surgical instrument segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Mingyu Sheng , Jianan Fan , Dongnan Liu , Ron Kikinis , Weidong Cai

Ultrasound imaging is challenging to interpret due to non-uniform intensities, low contrast, and inherent artifacts, necessitating extensive training for non-specialists. Advanced representation with clear tissue structure separation could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Oleksandra Tmenova , Yordanka Velikova , Mahdi Saleh , Nassir Navab

Segmentation of surgical instruments is crucial for enhancing surgeon performance and ensuring patient safety. Conventional techniques such as binary, semantic, and instance segmentation share a common drawback: they do not accommodate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Ruohua Shi , Zhaochen Liu , Lingyu Duan , Tingting Jiang

Along with the breakthrough of convolutional neural networks, learning-based segmentation has emerged in many research works. Most of them are based on supervised learning, requiring plenty of annotated data; however, to support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Junhuan Yang , Yi Sheng , Yuzhou Zhang , Weiwen Jiang , Lei Yang

We address the problem of discovering part segmentations of articulated objects without supervision. In contrast to keypoints, part segmentations provide information about part localizations on the level of individual pixels. Capturing both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Sandro Braun , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

Brain tumor segmentation is important for diagnosis of the tumor, and current deep-learning methods rely on a large set of annotated images for training, with high annotation costs. Unsupervised segmentation is promising to avoid human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Xiaochuan Ma , Jia Fu , Wenjun Liao , Shichuan Zhang , Guotai Wang

Accurate and real-time surgical instrument segmentation is important in the endoscopic vision of robot-assisted surgery, and significant challenges are posed by frequent instrument-tissue contacts and continuous change of observation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Fangbo Qin , Shan Lin , Yangming Li , Randall A. Bly , Kris S. Moe , Blake Hannaford

Deep convolutional neural networks have shown outstanding performance in medical image segmentation tasks. The usual problem when training supervised deep learning methods is the lack of labeled data which is time-consuming and costly to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Suman Sedai , Bhavna Antony , Ravneet Rai , Katie Jones , Hiroshi Ishikawa , Joel Schuman , Wollstein Gadi , Rahil Garnavi

The scarcity of labeled data often limits the application of supervised deep learning techniques for medical image segmentation. This has motivated the development of semi-supervised techniques that learn from a mixture of labeled and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Gerda Bortsova , Florian Dubost , Laurens Hogeweg , Ioannis Katramados , Marleen de Bruijne

Surgical instrument segmentation is crucial in surgical scene understanding, thereby facilitating surgical safety. Existing algorithms directly detected all instruments of pre-defined categories in the input image, lacking the capability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Zhen Chen , Zongming Zhang , Wenwu Guo , Xingjian Luo , Long Bai , Jinlin Wu , Hongliang Ren , Hongbin Liu