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Deep learning-based techniques have proven effective in polyp segmentation tasks when provided with sufficient pixel-wise labeled data. However, the high cost of manual annotation has created a bottleneck for model generalization. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Duojun Huang , Xinyu Xiong , De-Jun Fan , Feng Gao , Xiao-Jian Wu , Guanbin Li

Medical image annotation is a major hurdle for developing precise and robust machine learning models. Annotation is expensive, time-consuming, and often requires expert knowledge, particularly in the medical field. Here, we suggest using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Holger R Roth , Dong Yang , Ziyue Xu , Xiaosong Wang , Daguang Xu

Medical image segmentation is an important analysis task in clinical practice and research. Deep learning has massively advanced the field, but current approaches are mostly based on models trained for a specific task. Training such models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Anwai Archit , Luca Freckmann , Constantin Pape

Medical image segmentation is a key task in the imaging workflow, influencing many image-based decisions. Traditional, fully-supervised segmentation models rely on large amounts of labeled training data, typically obtained through manual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Tyler Ward , Meredith K. Owen , O'Kira Coleman , Brian Noehren , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

Image datasets with high-quality pixel-level annotations are valuable for semantic segmentation: labelling every pixel in an image ensures that rare classes and small objects are annotated. However, full-image annotations are expensive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Hubert Lin , Paul Upchurch , Kavita Bala

Tissue-level semantic segmentation is a vital step in computational pathology. Fully-supervised models have already achieved outstanding performance with dense pixel-level annotations. However, drawing such labels on the giga-pixel whole…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-18 Chu Han , Jiatai Lin , Jinhai Mai , Yi Wang , Qingling Zhang , Bingchao Zhao , Xin Chen , Xipeng Pan , Zhenwei Shi , Xiaowei Xu , Su Yao , Lixu Yan , Huan Lin , Zeyan Xu , Xiaomei Huang , Guoqiang Han , Changhong Liang , Zaiyi Liu

In this paper, we study weakly-supervised laparoscopic image segmentation with sparse annotations. We introduce a novel Bayesian deep learning approach designed to enhance both the accuracy and interpretability of the model's segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Zhou Zheng , Yuichiro Hayashi , Masahiro Oda , Takayuki Kitasaka , Kensaku Mori

Deep learning has achieved widespread success in medical image analysis, leading to an increasing demand for large-scale expert-annotated medical image datasets. Yet, the high cost of annotating medical images severely hampers the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Haoran Wang , Qiuye Jin , Shiman Li , Siyu Liu , Manning Wang , Zhijian Song

Scribble supervision, a common form of weakly supervised learning, involves annotating pixels using hand-drawn curve lines, which helps reduce the cost of manual labelling. This technique has been widely used in medical image segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Jing Yuan , Tania Stathaki

Semantic segmentation requires dense pixel-level annotations, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. To address this, we present SeSAM, a framework that uses a foundational segmentation model, i.e. Segment Anything Model (SAM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anurag Das , Anna Kukleva , Xinting Hu , Yuki M. Asano , Bernt Schiele

Supervised learning algorithms based on Convolutional Neural Networks have become the benchmark for medical image segmentation tasks, but their effectiveness heavily relies on a large amount of labeled data. However, annotating medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Tao Wang , Yuanbin Chen , Xinlin Zhang , Yuanbo Zhou , Junlin Lan , Bizhe Bai , Tao Tan , Min Du , Qinquan Gao , Tong Tong

Deep segmentation neural networks require large training datasets with pixel-wise segmentations, which are expensive to obtain in practice. Mixed supervision could mitigate this difficulty, with a small fraction of the data containing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Jose Dolz , Christian Desrosiers , Ismail Ben Ayed

In this paper, we propose a new approach to applying point-level annotations for weakly-supervised panoptic segmentation. Instead of the dense pixel-level labels used by fully supervised methods, point-level labels only provide a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Junsong Fan , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Tieniu Tan

Many successful methods developed for medical image analysis that are based on machine learning use supervised learning approaches, which often require large datasets annotated by experts to achieve high accuracy. However, medical data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Banafshe Felfeliyan , Abhilash Hareendranathan , Gregor Kuntze , David Cornell , Nils D. Forkert , Jacob L. Jaremko , Janet L. Ronsky

The data-driven nature of deep learning (DL) models for semantic segmentation requires a large number of pixel-level annotations. However, large-scale and fully labeled medical datasets are often unavailable for practical tasks. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Nanqing Dong , Michael Kampffmeyer , Xiaodan Liang , Min Xu , Irina Voiculescu , Eric P. Xing

Semantic segmentation is a critical step in automated image interpretation and analysis where pixels are classified into one or more predefined semantically meaningful classes. Deep learning approaches for semantic segmentation rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Tushar Kataria , Beatrice Knudsen , Shireen Elhabian

Scribble-based weakly supervised semantic segmentation leverages only a few annotated pixels as labels to train a segmentation model, presenting significant potential for reducing the human labor involved in the annotation process. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xinliang Zhang , Lei Zhu , Shuang Zeng , Hangzhou He , Ourui Fu , Zhengjian Yao , Zhaoheng Xie , Yanye Lu

Automated nodule segmentation is essential for computer-assisted diagnosis in ultrasound images. Nevertheless, most existing methods depend on precise pixel-level annotations by medical professionals, a process that is both costly and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Xingyue Zhao , Peiqi Li , Xiangde Luo , Meng Yang , Shi Chang , Zhongyu Li

Recent trends in semi-supervised learning have significantly boosted the performance of 3D semi-supervised medical image segmentation. Compared with 2D images, 3D medical volumes involve information from different directions, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Heng Cai , Shumeng Li , Lei Qi , Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao