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Accurate tumor segmentation and classification in breast ultrasound (BUS) imaging remain challenging due to low contrast, speckle noise, and diverse lesion morphology. This study presents a multi-task deep learning framework that jointly…

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Whole-slide image classification represents a key challenge in computational pathology and medicine. Attention-based multiple instance learning (MIL) has emerged as an effective approach for this problem. However, the effect of attention…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-14 Rajiv Krishnakumar , Julien Baglio , Frederik F. Flöther , Christian Ruiz , Stefan Habringer , Nicole H. Romano

Video instance segmentation (VIS) is a critical task with diverse applications, including autonomous driving and video editing. Existing methods often underperform on complex and long videos in real world, primarily due to two factors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Tao Zhang , Xingye Tian , Yu Wu , Shunping Ji , Xuebo Wang , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan

Purpose: Deep learning methods have shown promising results in the segmentation, and detection of diseases in medical images. However, most methods are trained and tested on data from a single source, modality, organ, or disease type,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Nchongmaje Ndipenocha , Alina Mirona , Kezhi Wanga , Yongmin Li

The visual system of a robot has different requirements depending on the application: it may require high accuracy or reliability, be constrained by limited resources or need fast adaptation to dynamically changing environments. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Federico Ceola , Elisa Maiettini , Giulia Pasquale , Giacomo Meanti , Lorenzo Rosasco , Lorenzo Natale

Accurate instrument pose estimation is a crucial step towards the future of robotic surgery, enabling applications such as autonomous surgical task execution. Vision-based methods for surgical instrument pose estimation provide a practical…

Labeling pixel-wise object masks in videos is a resource-intensive and laborious process. Box-supervised Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) methods have emerged as a viable solution to mitigate the labor-intensive annotation process. . In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Zhangjing Yang , Dun Liu , Wensheng Cheng , Jinqiao Wang , Yi Wu

Semantic image segmentation is one of fastest growing areas in computer vision with a variety of applications. In many areas, such as robotics and autonomous vehicles, semantic image segmentation is crucial, since it provides the necessary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Georgios Takos

Purpose: The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated impressive performance with point, text or bounding box prompts, in various applications. However, in safety-critical surgical tasks, prompting is not possible due to (i) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yuyang Sheng , Sophia Bano , Matthew J. Clarkson , Mobarakol Islam

Due to the wide existence and large morphological variances of nuclei, accurate nuclei instance segmentation is still one of the most challenging tasks in computational pathology. The annotating of nuclei instances, requiring experienced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Xinpeng Xie , Jiawei Chen , Yuexiang Li , Linlin Shen , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng

Open-world instance segmentation has recently gained significant popularitydue to its importance in many real-world applications, such as autonomous driving, robot perception, and remote sensing. However, previous methods have either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Cheng Wang , Guoli Wang , Qian Zhang , Peng Guo , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Automatic surgical phase recognition is a core technology for modern operating rooms and online surgical video assessment platforms. Current state-of-the-art methods use both spatial and temporal information to tackle the surgical phase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Bokai Zhang , Jiayuan Meng , Bin Cheng , Dean Biskup , Svetlana Petculescu , Angela Chapman

The demand for accurate food quantification has increased in the recent years, driven by the needs of applications in dietary monitoring. At the same time, computer vision approaches have exhibited great potential in automating tasks within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Valasia Vlachopoulou , Ioannis Sarafis , Alexandros Papadopoulos

During laparoscopic surgery, context-aware assistance systems aim to alleviate some of the difficulties the surgeon faces. To ensure that the right information is provided at the right time, the current phase of the intervention has to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Sebastian Bodenstedt , Antonia Ohnemus , Darko Katic , Anna-Laura Wekerle , Martin Wagner , Hannes Kenngott , Beat Müller-Stich , Rüdiger Dillmann , Stefanie Speidel

Instance segmentation with neural networks is an essential task in environment perception. In many works, it has been observed that neural networks can predict false positive instances with high confidence values and true positives with low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kira Maag , Matthias Rottmann , Serin Varghese , Fabian Hueger , Peter Schlicht , Hanno Gottschalk

Wound image segmentation is a critical component for the clinical diagnosis and in-time treatment of wounds. Recently, deep learning has become the mainstream methodology for wound image segmentation. However, the pre-processing of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Honghui Liu , Changjian Wang , Kele Xu , Fangzhao Li , Ming Feng , Yuxing Peng , Hongjun He

Medical imaging plays a vital role in modern diagnostics; however, interpreting high-resolution radiological data remains time-consuming and susceptible to variability among clinicians. Traditional image processing techniques often lack the…

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Obstacle Detection is a central problem for any robotic system, and critical for autonomous systems that travel at high speeds in unpredictable environment. This is often achieved through scene depth estimation, by various means. When fast…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Michele Mancini , Gabriele Costante , Paolo Valigi , Thomas A. Ciarfuglia

In this paper, we focus on the challenging multicategory instance segmentation problem in remote sensing images (RSIs), which aims at predicting the categories of all instances and localizing them with pixel-level masks. Although many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Tianyang Zhang , Xiangrong Zhang , Peng Zhu , Xu Tang , Chen Li , Licheng Jiao , Huiyu Zhou

We propose a method for instance-level segmentation that uses RGB-D data as input and provides detailed information about the location, geometry and number of individual objects in the scene. This level of understanding is fundamental for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Lin Shao , Ye Tian , Jeannette Bohg