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Ultrasound imaging is widely used in medical diagnosis, especially for fetal health assessment. However, the availability of high-quality annotated ultrasound images is limited, which restricts the training of machine learning models. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yueying Tian , Elif Ucurum , Xudong Han , Rupert Young , Chris Chatwin , Philip Birch

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) presents unprecedented opportunities to revolutionize medical contrastive vision-language pre-training. In this paper, we show how LLMs can facilitate large-scale supervised pre-training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yingtai Li , Haoran Lai , Xiaoqian Zhou , Shuai Ming , Wenxin Ma , Wei Wei , Shaohua Kevin Zhou

Semi-supervised learning utilizes insights from unlabeled data to improve model generalization, thereby reducing reliance on large labeled datasets. Most existing studies focus on limited samples and fail to capture the overall data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Xiuzhen Guo , Lianyuan Yu , Ji Shi , Na Lei , Hongxiao Wang

In multi-label learning, leveraging contrastive learning to learn better representations faces a key challenge: selecting positive and negative samples and effectively utilizing label information. Previous studies selected positive and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Ning Chen , Shen-Huan Lyu , Tian-Shuang Wu , Yanyan Wang , Bin Tang

Analysis of cardiac ultrasound images is commonly performed in routine clinical practice for quantification of cardiac function. Its increasing automation frequently employs deep learning networks that are trained to predict disease or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Agisilaos Chartsias , Shan Gao , Angela Mumith , Jorge Oliveira , Kanwal Bhatia , Bernhard Kainz , Arian Beqiri

Contrastive learning (CL) has achieved astonishing progress in computer vision, speech, and natural language processing fields recently with self-supervised learning. However, CL approach to the supervised setting is not fully explored,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Zhenyu Zhang , Yuming Zhao , Meng Chen , Xiaodong He

Semi-supervised learning methods have achieved excellent performance on standard benchmark datasets using very few labelled images. Anatomy classification in fetal 2D ultrasound is an ideal problem setting to test whether these results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Jeremy Tan , Anselm Au , Qingjie Meng , Bernhard Kainz

Breast cancer, the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths globally, accounts for a quarter of all cancer cases [1]. To lower this death rate, it is crucial to detect tumors early, as early-stage detection significantly improves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Samia Saeed , Khuram Naveed

Complementary-label learning (CLL) is widely used in weakly supervised classification, but it faces a significant challenge in real-world datasets when confronted with class-imbalanced training samples. In such scenarios, the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Meng Wei , Yong Zhou , Zhongnian Li , Xinzheng Xu

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-04 Sara Ketabi , Matthias W. Wagner , Cynthia Hawkins , Uri Tabori , Birgit Betina Ertl-Wagner , Farzad Khalvati

In our previous works, we proposed a machine learning framework named \texttt{USmorph} for efficiently classifying galaxy morphology. In this study, we propose a self-supervised method called contrastive learning to upgrade the unsupervised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-19 Shiwei Zhu , Guanwen Fang , Chichun Zhou , Jie Song , Zesen Lin , Yao Dai , Xu Kong

Confidence-based pseudo-label selection usually generates overly confident yet incorrect predictions, due to the early misleadingness of model and overfitting inaccurate pseudo-labels in the learning process, which heavily degrades the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Peng Zhang , Zhihui Lai , Heng Kong

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for addressing the annotation bottleneck in medical imaging by learning representations from unlabeled data. However, its effectiveness depends heavily on the design of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chathura Wimalasiri

Supervised deep learning needs a large amount of labeled data to achieve high performance. However, in medical imaging analysis, each site may only have a limited amount of data and labels, which makes learning ineffective. Federated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Yawen Wu , Dewen Zeng , Zhepeng Wang , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Existed pre-trained models have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various text classification tasks. These models have proven to be useful in learning universal language representations. However, the semantic discrepancy between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Jinhe Lan , Qingyuan Zhan , Chenhao Jiang , Kunping Yuan , Desheng Wang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have shown promise for medical imaging applications by learning meaningful visual representations, even when the amount of labeled data is limited. Here, we extend state-of-the-art contrastive learning…

Multi-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a vital role in brain tumor segmentation and diagnosis by leveraging complementary information from different contrasts. Each contrast highlights specific tumor characteristics, enabling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-10 Zhenxuan Zhang , Hongjie Wu , Jiahao Huang , Baihong Xie , Zhifan Gao , Junxian Du , Pete Lally , Guang Yang

Contrastive learning has gained significant attention in skeleton-based action recognition for its ability to learn robust representations from unlabeled data. However, existing methods rely on a single skeleton convention, which limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Mert Kiray , Alvaro Ritter , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam

In medical image analysis, multi-organ semi-supervised segmentation faces challenges such as insufficient labels and low contrast in soft tissues. To address these issues, existing studies typically employ semi-supervised segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Feilong Tang , Zhongxing Xu , Ming Hu , Wenxue Li , Peng Xia , Yiheng Zhong , Hanjun Wu , Jionglong Su , Zongyuan Ge

An increasing number of public datasets have shown a marked impact on automated organ segmentation and tumor detection. However, due to the small size and partially labeled problem of each dataset, as well as a limited investigation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Jie Liu , Yixiao Zhang , Jie-Neng Chen , Junfei Xiao , Yongyi Lu , Bennett A. Landman , Yixuan Yuan , Alan Yuille , Yucheng Tang , Zongwei Zhou