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We consider a real-world scenario in which a newly-established pilot project needs to make inferences for newly-collected data with the help of other parties under privacy protection policies. Current federated learning (FL) paradigms are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Xin-Chun Li , Yang Yang , De-Chuan Zhan

Deep neural networks have led to a series of breakthroughs in computer vision given sufficient annotated training datasets. For novel tasks with limited labeled data, the prevalent approach is to transfer the knowledge learned in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Yi Zhu , Jia Xue , Shawn Newsam

The training of deep learning models typically requires extensive data, which are not readily available as large well-curated medical-image datasets for development of artificial intelligence (AI) models applied in Radiology. Recognizing…

This paper discusses the role of Transfer Learning (TL) and transformers in cancer detection based on image analysis. With the enormous evolution of cancer patients, the identification of cancer cells in a patient's body has emerged as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-17 Amine Bechar , Youssef Elmir , Rafik Medjoudj , Yassine Himeur , Abbes Amira

Despite the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, deep learning has yet to achieve much success with tabular data due to heterogeneous feature space and limited sample sizes without viable transfer learning. The new era of generative AI,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Shourav B. Rabbani , Ibna Kowsar , Manar D. Samad

Lithology discrimination is a crucial activity in characterizing oil reservoirs, and processing lithology microscopic images is an essential technique for investigating fossils and minerals and geological assessment of shale oil…

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to learn new classes over time without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. The emergence of foundation models (FM) pretrained on large datasets presents new opportunities for CIL by offering rich,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Mohamed Elkhayat , Mohamed Mahmoud , Jamil Fayyad , Nourhan Bayasi

Fetal head segmentation is a crucial step in measuring the fetal head circumference (HC) during gestation, an important biometric in obstetrics for monitoring fetal growth. However, manual biometry generation is time-consuming and results…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-02 Fangyijie Wang , Guénolé Silvestre , Kathleen M. Curran

The advent of large-scale self-supervised learning (SSL) has produced a vast zoo of medical foundation models. However, selecting optimal medical foundation models for specific segmentation tasks remains a computational bottleneck. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiaqi Tang , Shaoyang Zhang , Xiaoqi Wang , Jiaying Zhou , Yang Liu , Qingchao Chen

Transfer learning from ImageNet is the go-to approach when applying deep learning to medical images. The approach is either to fine-tune a pre-trained model or use it as a feature extractor. Most modern architecture contain batch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Fahdi Kanavati , Masayuki Tsuneki

Deep learning has driven significant advances in medical image analysis, yet its adoption in clinical practice remains constrained by the large size and lack of transparency in modern models. Advances in interpretability techniques such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Nikita Malik , Pratinav Seth , Neeraj Kumar Singh , Chintan Chitroda , Vinay Kumar Sankarapu

Image quality plays a big role in CNN-based image classification performance. Fine-tuning the network with distorted samples may be too costly for large networks. To solve this issue, we propose a transfer learning approach optimized to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Alessandro Bianchi , Moreno Raimondo Vendra , Pavlos Protopapas , Marco Brambilla

Scaling by training on large datasets has been shown to enhance the quality and fidelity of image generation and manipulation with diffusion models; however, such large datasets are not always accessible in medical imaging due to cost and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yousef Yeganeh , Azade Farshad , Ioannis Charisiadis , Marta Hasny , Martin Hartenberger , Björn Ommer , Nassir Navab , Ehsan Adeli

Deep learning methods usually require a large amount of training data and lack interpretability. In this paper, we propose a novel knowledge distillation and model interpretation framework for medical image classification that jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Thanh Nguyen-Duc , He Zhao , Jianfei Cai , Dinh Phung

The rapid advancement of deep learning (DL) has transformed healthcare, particularly in cancer detection and diagnosis. DL surpasses traditional machine learning and human accuracy, making it a critical tool for identifying diseases.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Yassine Habchi , Hamza Kheddar , Yassine Himeur , Adel Belouchrani , Erchin Serpedin , Fouad Khelifi , Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury

Knowledge distillation from pretrained visual representation models offers an effective approach to improve small, task-specific production models. However, the effectiveness of such knowledge transfer drops significantly when distilling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Chengyu Dong , Huan Gui , Noveen Sachdeva , Long Jin , Ke Yin , Jingbo Shang , Lichan Hong , Ed H. Chi , Zhe Zhao

Transfer learning is widely used for training machine learning models. Here, we study the role of transfer learning for training fully convolutional networks (FCNs) for medical image segmentation. Our experiments show that although transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Davood Karimi , Simon K. Warfield , Ali Gholipour

Medical images are often more difficult to acquire than natural images due to the specialism of the equipment and technology, which leads to less medical image datasets. So it is hard to train a strong pretrained medical vision model. How…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Haijiang Tian , Jingkun Yue , Xiaohong Liu , Guoxing Yang , Zeyu Jiang , Guangyu Wang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are extensively beneficial for medical image processing. Medical images are plentiful, but there is a lack of annotated data. Transfer learning is used to solve the problem of lack of labeled data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Sajjad Abbasi , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , Shahram Shirani

Self-supervised pre-training of large-scale transformer models on text corpora followed by finetuning has achieved state-of-the-art on a number of natural language processing tasks. Recently, Lu et al. (2021, arXiv:2103.05247) claimed that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Danielle Rothermel , Margaret Li , Tim Rocktäschel , Jakob Foerster