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Contrastive learning has proven effective for pre-training image models on unlabeled data with promising results for tasks such as medical image classification. Using paired text (like radiological reports) during pre-training improves the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Philip Müller , Georgios Kaissis , Congyu Zou , Daniel Rueckert

Automatic extraction of medical conditions from free-text radiology reports is critical for supervising computer vision models to interpret medical images. In this work, we show that radiologists labeling reports significantly disagree with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-16 Saahil Jain , Akshay Smit , Steven QH Truong , Chanh DT Nguyen , Minh-Thanh Huynh , Mudit Jain , Victoria A. Young , Andrew Y. Ng , Matthew P. Lungren , Pranav Rajpurkar

Contrastive learning has been shown to produce generalizable representations of audio and visual data by maximizing the lower bound on the mutual information (MI) between different views of an instance. However, obtaining a tight lower…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Shuang Ma , Zhaoyang Zeng , Daniel McDuff , Yale Song

Although machine learning has become a powerful tool to augment doctors in clinical analysis, the immense amount of labeled data that is necessary to train supervised learning approaches burdens each development task as time and resource…

Preserving maximal information is one of principles of designing self-supervised learning methodologies. To reach this goal, contrastive learning adopts an implicit way which is contrasting image pairs. However, we believe it is not fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Hong-Yu Zhou , Chixiang Lu , Sibei Yang , Xiaoguang Han , Yizhou Yu

Multi-modal data abounds in biomedicine, such as radiology images and reports. Interpreting this data at scale is essential for improving clinical care and accelerating clinical research. Biomedical text with its complex semantics poses…

Learning-based synthetic multi-contrast MRI commonly involves deep models trained using high-quality images of source and target contrasts, regardless of whether source and target domain samples are paired or unpaired. This results in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-13 Mahmut Yurt , Salman Ul Hassan Dar , Muzaffer Özbey , Berk Tınaz , Kader Karlı Oğuz , Tolga Çukur

Collecting labeled data for the task of semantic segmentation is expensive and time-consuming, as it requires dense pixel-level annotations. While recent Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based semantic segmentation approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Xiangyun Zhao , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Philip Mansfield , Boqing Gong , Bradley Green , Lior Shapira , Ying Wu

Self-supervised pre-training of deep learning models with contrastive learning is a widely used technique in image analysis. Current findings indicate a strong potential for contrastive pre-training on medical images. However, further…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Daniel Wolf , Tristan Payer , Catharina Silvia Lisson , Christoph Gerhard Lisson , Meinrad Beer , Michael Götz , Timo Ropinski

Weakly-supervised learning under image-level labels supervision has been widely applied to semantic segmentation of medical lesions regions. However, 1) most existing models rely on effective constraints to explore the internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Jiahua Dong , Yang Cong , Gan Sun , Dongdong Hou

Sequential video understanding, as an emerging video understanding task, has driven lots of researchers' attention because of its goal-oriented nature. This paper studies weakly supervised sequential video understanding where the accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Sixun Dong , Huazhang Hu , Dongze Lian , Weixin Luo , Yicheng Qian , Shenghua Gao

Text to image latent diffusion models have recently advanced medical image synthesis, but applications to 3D CT generation remain limited. Existing approaches rely on simplified prompts, neglecting the rich semantic detail in full radiology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Sina Amirrajab , Zohaib Salahuddin , Sheng Kuang , Henry C. Woodruff , Philippe Lambin

This paper addresses the performance bottlenecks of existing text-driven image generation methods in terms of semantic alignment accuracy and structural consistency. A high-fidelity image generation method is proposed by integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Danyi Gao

Every year physicians face an increasing demand of image-based diagnosis from patients, a problem that can be addressed with recent artificial intelligence methods. In this context, we survey works in the area of automatic report generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Pablo Messina , Pablo Pino , Denis Parra , Alvaro Soto , Cecilia Besa , Sergio Uribe , Marcelo andía , Cristian Tejos , Claudia Prieto , Daniel Capurro

Automated radiology report drafting (ARRD) using vision-language models (VLMs) has advanced rapidly, yet most systems lack explicit uncertainty estimates, limiting trust and safe clinical deployment. We propose CONRep, a model-agnostic…

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in the field of imaging and vision. Supervised deep learning for segmentation has achieved unparalleled success when sufficient training data with annotated labels are available. However, annotation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-10 Hongrun Zhang , Liam Burrows , Yanda Meng , Declan Sculthorpe , Abhik Mukherjee , Sarah E Coupland , Ke Chen , Yalin Zheng

The paper proposes a novel evaluation metric for automatic medical report generation from X-ray images, VLScore. It aims to overcome the limitations of existing evaluation methods, which either focus solely on textual similarities, ignoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Gefen Dawidowicz , Elad Hirsch , Ayellet Tal

To extract robust deep representations from long sequential modeling of speech data, we propose a self-supervised learning approach, namely Contrastive Separative Coding (CSC). Our key finding is to learn such representations by separating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Jun Wang , Max W. Y. Lam , Dan Su , Dong Yu

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

Contrastive learning has delivered impressive results for various tasks in the self-supervised regime. However, existing approaches optimize for learning representations specific to downstream scenarios, i.e., \textit{global}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Shuang Ma , Zhaoyang Zeng , Daniel McDuff , Yale Song