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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

This paper explores the segmentation of very small medical objects with significant clinical value. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), particularly UNet-like models, and recent Transformers have shown substantial progress in image…

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Medical image segmentation is an important step in medical image analysis, especially as a crucial prerequisite for efficient disease diagnosis and treatment. The use of deep learning for image segmentation has become a prevalent trend. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Wenjian Yao , Jiajun Bai , Wei Liao , Yuheng Chen , Mengjuan Liu , Yao Xie

The increasingly deeper neural networks hinder the democratization of privacy-enhancing distributed learning, such as federated learning (FL), to resource-constrained devices. To overcome this challenge, in this paper, we advocate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Zheng Lin , Guangyu Zhu , Yiqin Deng , Xianhao Chen , Yue Gao , Kaibin Huang , Yuguang Fang

Many recent medical segmentation systems rely on powerful deep learning models to solve highly specific tasks. To maximize performance, it is standard practice to evaluate numerous pipelines with varying model topologies, optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Mathias Perslev , Erik Bjørnager Dam , Akshay Pai , Christian Igel

Lesion segmentation on nasal endoscopic images is challenging due to its complex lesion features. Fully-supervised deep learning methods achieve promising performance with pixel-level annotations but impose a significant annotation burden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Pengyu Jie , Wanquan Liu , Chenqiang Gao , Yihui Wen , Rui He , Weiping Wen , Pengcheng Li , Jintao Zhang , Deyu Meng

Coarse-to-fine models and cascade segmentation architectures are widely adopted to solve the problem of large scale variations in medical image segmentation. However, those methods have two primary limitations: the first-stage segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Jiahao Xie , Sheng Zhang , Jianwei Lu , Ye Luo

We introduce a novel deep learning-based framework to interpret 3D urban scenes represented as textured meshes. Based on the observation that object boundaries typically align with the boundaries of planar regions, our framework achieves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Weixiao Gao , Liangliang Nan , Bas Boom , Hugo Ledoux

Semi-supervised segmentation remains challenging in medical imaging since the amount of annotated medical data is often scarce and there are many blurred pixels near the adhesive edges or in the low-contrast regions. To address the issues,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Yicheng Wu , Zhonghua Wu , Qianyi Wu , Zongyuan Ge , Jianfei Cai

Machine learning (ML) in healthcare presents numerous opportunities for enhancing patient care, population health, and healthcare providers' workflows. However, the real-world clinical and cost benefits remain limited due to challenges in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Suraj Rajendran , Weishen Pan , Mert R. Sabuncu , Yong Chen , Jiayu Zhou , Fei Wang

Whole brain segmentation using deep learning (DL) is a very challenging task since the number of anatomical labels is very high compared to the number of available training images. To address this problem, previous DL methods proposed to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-22 Pierrick Coupé , Boris Mansencal , Michaël Clément , Rémi Giraud , Baudouin Denis de Senneville , Vinh-Thong Ta , Vincent Lepetit , José V. Manjon

The human lung is a complex respiratory organ, consisting of five distinct anatomic compartments called lobes. Accurate and automatic segmentation of these pulmonary lobes from computed tomography (CT) images is of clinical importance for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-18 Hoileong Lee , Tahreema Matin , Fergus Gleeson , Vicente Grau

Standard modern machine-learning-based imaging methods have faced challenges in medical applications due to the high cost of dataset construction and, thereby, the limited labeled training data available. Additionally, upon deployment,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Amin Karimi Monsefi , Payam Karisani , Mengxi Zhou , Stacey Choi , Nathan Doble , Heng Ji , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Rajiv Ramnath

AI-assisted nuclei segmentation in histopathological images is a crucial task in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer diseases. It decreases the time required to manually screen microscopic tissue images and can resolve the conflict…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Hesham Ali , Idriss Tondji , Mennatullah Siam

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental and critical step in many image-guided clinical approaches. Recent success of deep learning-based segmentation methods usually relies on a large amount of labeled data, which is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Rushi Jiao , Yichi Zhang , Le Ding , Rong Cai , Jicong Zhang

Medical image segmentation allows quantifying target structure size and shape, aiding in disease diagnosis, prognosis, surgery planning, and comprehension.Building upon recent advancements in foundation Vision-Language Models (VLMs) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Kanchan Poudel , Manish Dhakal , Prasiddha Bhandari , Rabin Adhikari , Safal Thapaliya , Bishesh Khanal

One of the most common tasks in medical imaging is semantic segmentation. Achieving this segmentation automatically has been an active area of research, but the task has been proven very challenging due to the large variation of anatomy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Holger R. Roth , Chen Shen , Hirohisa Oda , Masahiro Oda , Yuichiro Hayashi , Kazunari Misawa , Kensaku Mori

Automatic image segmentation technology is critical to the visual analysis. The autoencoder architecture has satisfying performance in various image segmentation tasks. However, autoencoders based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) seem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Shiqiang Ma , Xuejian Li , Jijun Tang , Fei Guo

Medical imaging plays a critical role in modern healthcare, enabling clinicians to accurately diagnose diseases and develop effective treatment plans. However, noise, often introduced by imaging devices, can degrade image quality, leading…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Jitindra Fartiyal , Pedro Freire , Yasmeen Whayeb , James S. Wolffsohn , Sergei K. Turitsyn , Sergei G. Sokolov

Reliable cell segmentation and classification from biomedical images is a crucial step for both scientific research and clinical practice. A major challenge for more robust segmentation and classification methods is the large variations in…

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