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Medical image segmentation typically necessitates a large and precisely annotated dataset. However, obtaining pixel-wise annotation is a labor-intensive task that requires significant effort from domain experts, making it challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Heng Cai , Lei Qi , Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

We address the problem of learning new classes for semantic segmentation models from few examples, which is challenging because of the following two reasons. Firstly, it is difficult to learn from limited novel data to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chengjia Jiang , Tao Wang , Sien Li , Jinyang Wang , Shirui Wang , Antonios Antoniou

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

Scribble-based weakly supervised segmentation methods have shown promising results in medical image segmentation, significantly reducing annotation costs. However, existing approaches often rely on auxiliary tasks to enforce semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zhisong Wang , Yiwen Ye , Ziyang Chen , Minglei Shu , Yanning Zhang , Yong Xia

Low-shot learning methods for image classification support learning from sparse data. We extend these techniques to support dense semantic image segmentation. Specifically, we train a network that, given a small set of annotated images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Amirreza Shaban , Shray Bansal , Zhen Liu , Irfan Essa , Byron Boots

Medical image segmentation often faces the challenge of prohibitively expensive annotation costs. While few-shot learning offers a promising solution to alleviate this burden, conventional approaches still rely heavily on pre-training with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jie Xu , Xiaokang Li , Chengyu Yue , Yuanyuan Wang , Yi Guo

Just like other few-shot learning problems, few-shot segmentation aims to minimize the need for manual annotation, which is particularly costly in segmentation tasks. Even though the few-shot setting reduces this cost for novel test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Mustafa Sercan Amac , Ahmet Sencan , Orhun Bugra Baran , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

In microscopy image cell segmentation, it is common to train a deep neural network on source data, containing different types of microscopy images, and then fine-tune it using a support set comprising a few randomly selected and annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Youssef Dawoud , Arij Bouazizi , Katharina Ernst , Gustavo Carneiro , Vasileios Belagiannis

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in medical imaging. Although supervised learning techniques have proven to be effective in performing this task, they heavily depend on large amounts of annotated training data. The recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Ron Keuth , Lasse Hansen , Maren Balks , Ronja Jäger , Anne-Nele Schröder , Ludger Tüshaus , Mattias Heinrich

The success of deep learning methods in medical image segmentation tasks heavily depends on a large amount of labeled data to supervise the training. On the other hand, the annotation of biomedical images requires domain knowledge and can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Xinrong Hu , Dewen Zeng , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi

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

The performance of learning-based algorithms improves with the amount of labelled data used for training. Yet, manually annotating data is particularly difficult for medical image segmentation tasks because of the limited expert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Mélanie Gaillochet , Christian Desrosiers , Hervé Lombaert

Medical image segmentation has made significant progress in recent years. Deep learning-based methods are recognized as data-hungry techniques, requiring large amounts of data with manual annotations. However, manual annotation is expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Yi Lin , Yufan Chen , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Hao Chen

The field of few-shot learning has been laboriously explored in the supervised setting, where per-class labels are available. On the other hand, the unsupervised few-shot learning setting, where no labels of any kind are required, has seen…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-07 Antreas Antoniou , Amos Storkey

The high cost of creating pixel-by-pixel gold-standard labels, limited expert availability, and presence of diverse tasks make it challenging to generate segmentation labels to train deep learning models for medical imaging tasks. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Tanvi Deshpande , Eva Prakash , Elsie Gyang Ross , Curtis Langlotz , Andrew Ng , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu

Few-shot learning aims at rapidly adapting to novel categories with only a handful of samples at test time, which has been predominantly tackled with the idea of meta-learning. However, meta-learning approaches essentially learn across a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Jinhai Yang , Hua Yang , Lin Chen

Semi-supervised learning has attracted much attention due to its less dependence on acquiring abundant annotations from experts compared to fully supervised methods, which is especially important for medical image segmentation which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yichi Zhang , Jin Yang , Yuchen Liu , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi

Deep learning has revolutionized medical imaging, but its effectiveness is severely limited by insufficient labeled training data. This paper introduces a novel GAN-based semi-supervised learning framework specifically designed for low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Guido Manni , Clemente Lauretti , Loredana Zollo , Paolo Soda

The success of deep learning methods relies on the availability of well-labeled large-scale datasets. However, for medical images, annotating such abundant training data often requires experienced radiologists and consumes their limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Quan Quan , Qingsong Yao , Jun Li , S. Kevin Zhou

Due to the scarcity of annotated data in the medical domain, few-shot learning may be useful for medical image analysis tasks. We design a few-shot learning method using an ensemble of random subspaces for the diagnosis of chest x-rays…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Kshitiz , Garvit Garg , Angshuman Paul