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Recently, automated medical image segmentation methods based on deep learning have achieved great success. However, they heavily rely on large annotated datasets, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. Few-shot learning aims to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Jiayu Huo , Ruiqiang Xiao , Haotian Zheng , Yang Liu , Sebastien Ourselin , Rachel Sparks

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful tools in computer vision tasks. However, in many realistic scenarios label noise is prevalent in the training images, and overfitting to these noisy labels can significantly harm the generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Jan M. Köhler , Maximilian Autenrieth , William H. Beluch

Segmentation using deep learning has shown promising directions in medical imaging as it aids in the analysis and diagnosis of diseases. Nevertheless, a main drawback of deep models is that they require a large amount of pixel-level labels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Sukesh Adiga , Jose Dolz , Herve Lombaert

Supervised deep learning performance is heavily tied to the availability of high-quality labels for training. Neural networks can gradually overfit corrupted labels if directly trained on noisy datasets, leading to severe performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Ziyi Huang , Haofeng Zhang , Andrew Laine , Elsa Angelini , Christine Hendon , Yu Gan

Improving label quality in medical image segmentation is costly, but its benefits remain unclear. We systematically evaluate its impact using multiple pseudo-labeled versions of CT datasets, generated by models like nnU-Net,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Alexander Jaus , Zdravko Marinov , Constantin Seibold , Simon Reiß , Jens Kleesiek , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Despite the remarkable performance of supervised medical image segmentation models, relying on a large amount of labeled data is impractical in real-world situations. Semi-supervised learning approaches aim to alleviate this challenge using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yunyao Lu , Yihang Wu , Ahmad Chaddad , Tareef Daqqaq , Reem Kateb

Recent years have seen increasing use of supervised learning methods for segmentation tasks. However, the predictive performance of these algorithms depends on the quality of labels. This problem is particularly pertinent in the medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Le Zhang , Ryutaro Tanno , Mou-Cheng Xu , Chen Jin , Joseph Jacob , Olga Ciccarelli , Frederik Barkhof , Daniel C. Alexander

Severity level estimation is a crucial task in medical image diagnosis. However, accurately assigning severity class labels to individual images is very costly and challenging. Consequently, the attached labels tend to be noisy. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Shumpei Takezaki , Kiyohito Tanaka , Seiichi Uchida

Accurate medical image segmentation is often hindered by noisy labels in training data, due to the challenges of annotating medical images. Prior research works addressing noisy labels tend to make class-dependent assumptions, overlooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Erjian Guo , Zicheng Wang , Zhen Zhao , Luping Zhou

Label noise is a common problem in real-world datasets, affecting both model training and validation. Clean data are essential for achieving strong performance and ensuring reliable evaluation. While various techniques have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Henrique Pickler , Jorge K. S. Kamassury , Danilo Silva

Recently deep neural networks, which require a large amount of annotated samples, have been widely applied in nuclei instance segmentation of H\&E stained pathology images. However, it is inefficient and unnecessary to label all pixels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Wei Lou , Haofeng Li , Guanbin Li , Xiaoguang Han , Xiang Wan

Despite the recent success of deep learning methods at achieving new state-of-the-art accuracy for medical image segmentation, some major limitations are still restricting their deployment into clinics. One major limitation of deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Lucas Fidon

Noisy labels are a pervasive challenge in medical image classification, where annotation errors arise from inter-observer variability and diagnostic ambiguity. Although several noise-robust learning methods have been proposed, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Maycon R. S. Pereira , Filipe R. Cordeiro

Label noise is a critical factor that degrades the generalization performance of deep neural networks, thus leading to severe issues in real-world problems. Existing studies have employed strategies based on either loss or uncertainty to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Wonyoung Shin , Jung-Woo Ha , Shengzhe Li , Yongwoo Cho , Hoyean Song , Sunyoung Kwon

The success of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models significantly depends on the quality of provided annotations. In medical image segmentation, for example, having multiple expert annotations for each data point is common to minimize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Asma Ahmed Hashmi , Aigerim Zhumabayeva , Nikita Kotelevskii , Artem Agafonov , Mohammad Yaqub , Maxim Panov , Martin Takáč

Standard segmentation of medical images based on full-supervised convolutional networks demands accurate dense annotations. Such learning framework is built on laborious manual annotation with restrict demands for expertise, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Liyan Sun , Jianxiong Wu , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang , Guisheng Wang , Yizhou Yu

Medical imaging has witnessed remarkable progress but usually requires a large amount of high-quality annotated data which is time-consuming and costly to obtain. To alleviate this burden, semi-supervised learning has garnered attention as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Qingyue Wei , Lequan Yu , Xianhang Li , Wei Shao , Cihang Xie , Lei Xing , Yuyin Zhou

Noisy labels collected with limited annotation cost prevent medical image segmentation algorithms from learning precise semantic correlations. Previous segmentation arts of learning with noisy labels merely perform a pixel-wise manner to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Xiaoqing Guo , Yixuan Yuan

Accurate segmentation of tissue in histopathological images can be very beneficial for defining regions of interest (ROI) for streamline of diagnostic and prognostic tasks. Still, adapting to different domains is essential for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-10 Saul Fuster , Farbod Khoraminia , Trygve Eftestøl , Tahlita C. M. Zuiverloon , Kjersti Engan

There are many clinical contexts which require accurate detection and segmentation of all focal pathologies (e.g. lesions, tumours) in patient images. In cases where there are a mix of small and large lesions, standard binary cross entropy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-19 Brennan Nichyporuk , Justin Szeto , Douglas L. Arnold , Tal Arbel