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Semi-supervised learning (SSL), which aims at leveraging a few labeled images and a large number of unlabeled images for network training, is beneficial for relieving the burden of data annotation in medical image segmentation. According to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Xinkai Zhao , Chaowei Fang , De-Jun Fan , Xutao Lin , Feng Gao , Guanbin Li

Since annotating medical images for segmentation tasks commonly incurs expensive costs, it is highly desirable to design an annotation-efficient method to alleviate the annotation burden. Recently, contrastive learning has exhibited a great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yixuan Wu , Jintai Chen , Jiahuan Yan , Yiheng Zhu , Danny Z. Chen , Jian Wu

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 development of accurate methods for multi-label classification (MLC) of remote sensing (RS) images is one of the most important research topics in RS. The MLC methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-27 Ahmet Kerem Aksoy , Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh , Begüm Demir

Identifying and interpreting fetal standard scan planes during 2D ultrasound mid-pregnancy examinations are highly complex tasks which require years of training. Apart from guiding the probe to the correct location, it can be equally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Christian F. Baumgartner , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Jacqueline Matthew , Tara P. Fletcher , Sandra Smith , Lisa M. Koch , Bernhard Kainz , Daniel Rueckert

Multi-label classification is an important learning problem with many applications. In this work, we propose a principled similarity-based approach for multi-label learning called SML. We also introduce a similarity-based approach for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-31 Ryan A. Rossi , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Hoda Eldardiry , Rong Zhou

Medical image classification involves thresholding of labels that represent malignancy risk levels. Usually, a task defines a single threshold, and when developing computer-aided diagnosis tools, a single network is trained per such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Vadim Ratner , Yoel Shoshan , Tal Kachman

Medical image labels are often organized by taxonomies (e.g., organ - tissue - subtype), yet standard self-supervised learning (SSL) ignores this structure. We present a hierarchy-preserving contrastive framework that makes the label tree a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-07 Alif Elham Khan

Medical image segmentation, or computing voxelwise semantic masks, is a fundamental yet challenging task to compute a voxel-level semantic mask. To increase the ability of encoder-decoder neural networks to perform this task across large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Ho Hin Lee , Yucheng Tang , Qi Yang , Xin Yu , Shunxing Bao , Leon Y. Cai , Lucas W. Remedios , Bennett A. Landman , Yuankai Huo

Although significant progress achieved, multi-label classification is still challenging due to the complexity of correlations among different labels. Furthermore, modeling the relationships between input and some (dull) classes further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Junbing Li , Changqing Zhang , Pengfei Zhu , Baoyuan Wu , Lei Chen , Qinghua Hu

The lack of large labeled medical imaging datasets, along with significant inter-individual variability compared to clinically established disease classes, poses significant challenges in exploiting medical imaging information in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Matteo Ferrante , Tommaso Boccato , Simeon Spasov , Andrea Duggento , Nicola Toschi

Semantic overlap among land-cover categories, highly imbalanced label distributions, and complex inter-class co-occurrence patterns constitute significant challenges for multi-label remote-sensing image retrieval. In this article,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Amna Amir , Erchan Aptoula

Ultrasound (US) is a non-invasive yet effective medical diagnostic imaging technique for the COVID-19 global pandemic. However, due to complex feature behaviors and expensive annotations of US images, it is difficult to apply Artificial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Lei Liu , Wentao Lei , Yongfang Luo , Cheng Feng , Xiang Wan , Li Liu

Standard scan plane detection in fetal brain ultrasound (US) forms a crucial step in the assessment of fetal development. In clinical settings, this is done by manually manoeuvring a 2D probe to the desired scan plane. With the advent of 3D…

Even with the luxury of having abundant data, multi-label classification is widely known to be a challenging task to address. This work targets the problem of multi-label meta-learning, where a model learns to predict multiple labels within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Christian Simon , Piotr Koniusz , Mehrtash Harandi

Whilst contrastive learning has recently brought notable benefits to deep clustering of unlabelled images by learning sample-specific discriminative visual features, its potential for explicitly inferring class decision boundaries is less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jiabo Huang , Shaogang Gong

Lesion detection is a fundamental problem in the computer-aided diagnosis scheme for mammography. The advance of deep learning techniques have made a remarkable progress for this task, provided that the training data are large and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Zheren Li , Zhiming Cui , Sheng Wang , Yuji Qi , Xi Ouyang , Qitian Chen , Yuezhi Yang , Zhong Xue , Dinggang Shen , Jie-Zhi Cheng

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation, but it often suffers from unstable pseudo labels under extremely limited annotations, leading to inaccurate supervision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ruili Li , Jiayi Ding , Ruiyu Li , Yilun Jin , Shiwen Ge , Yuwen Zeng , Xiaoyong Zhang , Eichi Takaya , Jan Vrba , Noriyasu Homma

Maternal-fetal Ultrasound is the primary modality for monitoring fetal development, yet automated segmentation remains challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality annotations. To address this limitation, we propose a semi-supervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Fangyijie Wang , Guénolé Silvestre , Kathleen M. Curran

Multi-label image recognition with partial labels (MLR-PL) is designed to train models using a mix of known and unknown labels. Traditional methods rely on semantic or feature correlations to create pseudo-labels for unidentified labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Haoxian Ruan , Zhihua Xu , Zhijing Yang , Guang Ma , Jieming Xie , Changxiang Fan , Tianshui Chen