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Despite the promising performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in brain tumor diagnosis from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), their integration into the clinical workflow has been limited. That is mainly due to the fact that the…

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We present a weakly supervised deep learning model for classifying thoracic diseases and identifying abnormalities in chest radiography. In this work, instead of learning from medical imaging data with region-level annotations, our model…

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Creating a large-scale dataset of abnormality annotation on medical images is a labor-intensive and costly task. Leveraging weak supervision from readily available data such as radiology reports can compensate lack of large-scale data for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Ke Yu , Shantanu Ghosh , Zhexiong Liu , Christopher Deible , Kayhan Batmanghelich

Self-supervised learning has proven to be an effective way to learn representations in domains where annotated labels are scarce, such as medical imaging. A widely adopted framework for this purpose is contrastive learning and it has been…

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Pre-training a recognition model with contrastive learning on a large dataset of unlabeled data has shown great potential to boost the performance of a downstream task, e.g., image classification. However, in domains such as medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jizong Peng , Ping Wang , Chrisitian Desrosiers , Marco Pedersoli

Anatomical landmark detection in medical images is essential for various clinical and research applications, including disease diagnosis and surgical planning. However, manual landmark annotation is time-consuming and requires significant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Soorena Salari , Arash Harirpoush , Hassan Rivaz , Yiming Xiao

Deep neural networks have reached remarkable achievements in medical image processing tasks, specifically in classifying and detecting various diseases. However, when confronted with limited data, these networks face a critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Matina Mahdizadeh Sani , Ali Royat , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

A key requirement for the success of supervised deep learning is a large labeled dataset - a condition that is difficult to meet in medical image analysis. Self-supervised learning (SSL) can help in this regard by providing a strategy to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Krishna Chaitanya , Ertunc Erdil , Neerav Karani , Ender Konukoglu

The interpretation of medical images is a challenging task, often complicated by the presence of artifacts, occlusions, limited contrast and more. Most notable is the case of chest radiography, where there is a high inter-rater variability…

In seismic interpretation, pixel-level labels of various rock structures can be time-consuming and expensive to obtain. As a result, there oftentimes exists a non-trivial quantity of unlabeled data that is left unused simply because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Kiran Kokilepersaud , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

Radiology report generation aims at generating descriptive text from radiology images automatically, which may present an opportunity to improve radiology reporting and interpretation. A typical setting consists of training encoder-decoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 An Yan , Zexue He , Xing Lu , Jiang Du , Eric Chang , Amilcare Gentili , Julian McAuley , Chun-Nan Hsu

Unsupervised anomaly detection in medical imaging aims to detect and localize arbitrary anomalies without requiring annotated anomalous data during training. Often, this is achieved by learning a data distribution of normal samples and…

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Contrastive learning has been proved to be a promising technique for image-level representation learning from unlabeled data. Many existing works have demonstrated improved results by applying contrastive learning in classification and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-20 Dewen Zeng , John N. Kheir , Peng Zeng , Yiyu Shi

Automatic medical image report generation has drawn growing attention due to its potential to alleviate radiologists' workload. Existing work on report generation often trains encoder-decoder networks to generate complete reports. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Jianmo Ni , Chun-Nan Hsu , Amilcare Gentili , Julian McAuley

Chest X-ray (CXR) is the most common X-ray examination performed in daily clinical practice for the diagnosis of various heart and lung abnormalities. The large amount of data to be read and reported, with 100+ studies per day for a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Sebastian Guendel , Florin C. Ghesu , Sasa Grbic , Eli Gibson , Bogdan Georgescu , Andreas Maier , Dorin Comaniciu

Multi-label image classification presents a challenging task in many domains, including computer vision and medical imaging. Recent advancements have introduced graph-based and transformer-based methods to improve performance and capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Ahmad Sajedi , Samir Khaki , Yuri A. Lawryshyn , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

In this paper, we propose a novel selection strategy for contrastive learning for medical images. On natural images, contrastive learning uses augmentations to select positive and negative pairs for the contrastive loss. However, in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Kiran Kokilepersaud , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib , Stephanie Trejo Corona , Charles Wykoff

Medical image understanding plays a crucial role in enabling automated diagnosis and data-driven clinical decision support. However, its progress is impeded by two primary challenges: the limited availability of high-quality annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Tianchen Fang , Guiru Liu

Deep neural networks are increasingly used in medical imaging for tasks such as pathological classification, but they face challenges due to the scarcity of high-quality, expert-labeled training data. Recent efforts have utilized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Jongseong Jang , Daeun Kyung , Seung Hwan Kim , Honglak Lee , Kyunghoon Bae , Edward Choi

Learning visual representations of medical images (e.g., X-rays) is core to medical image understanding but its progress has been held back by the scarcity of human annotations. Existing work commonly relies on fine-tuning weights…

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