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Unsupervised learning has been a long-standing goal of machine learning and is especially important for medical image analysis, where the learning can compensate for the scarcity of labeled datasets. A promising subclass of unsupervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Ozan Ciga , Tony Xu , Anne L. Martel

Image segmentation relies on large annotated datasets, which are expensive and slow to produce. Silver-standard (AI-generated) labels are easier to obtain, but they risk introducing bias. Self-supervised learning, needing only images, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Marceau Lafargue-Hauret , Raghav Mehta , Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Mélanie Roschewitz , Ben Glocker

We present a novel data-efficient semi-supervised framework to improve the generalization of image captioning models. Constructing a large-scale labeled image captioning dataset is an expensive task in terms of labor, time, and cost. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Dong-Jin Kim , Tae-Hyun Oh , Jinsoo Choi , In So Kweon

Supervised Dictionary Learning has gained much interest in the recent decade and has shown significant performance improvements in image classification. However, in general, supervised learning needs a large number of labelled samples per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Khanh-Hung Tran , Fred-Maurice Ngole-Mboula , Jean-Luc Starck , Vincent Prost

This work considers supervised contrastive learning for semantic segmentation. We apply contrastive learning to enhance the discriminative power of the multi-scale features extracted by semantic segmentation networks. Our key methodological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Theodoros Pissas , Claudio S. Ravasio , Lyndon Da Cruz , Christos Bergeles

Semi-supervised learning is a challenging problem which aims to construct a model by learning from a limited number of labeled examples. Numerous methods have been proposed to tackle this problem, with most focusing on utilizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Peng Tu , Yawen Huang , Rongrong Ji , Feng Zheng , Ling Shao

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

Generalizing the medical image segmentation algorithms to unseen domains is an important research topic for computer-aided diagnosis and surgery. Most existing methods require a fully labeled dataset in each source domain. Although some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Huifeng Yao , Xiaowei Hu , Xiaomeng Li

Segmentation is one of the most important tasks in the medical imaging pipeline as it influences a number of image-based decisions. To be effective, fully supervised segmentation approaches require large amounts of manually annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Tyler Ward , Aaron Moseley , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

Contrastive Learning (CL) is a recent representation learning approach, which encourages inter-class separability and intra-class compactness in learned image representations. Since medical images often contain multiple semantic classes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Prashant Pandey , Ajey Pai , Nisarg Bhatt , Prasenjit Das , Govind Makharia , Prathosh AP , Mausam

Contrastive learning methods enforce label distance relationships in feature space to improve representation capability for regression models. However, these methods highly depend on label information to correctly recover ordinal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Ce Wang , Weihang Dai , Hanru Bai , Xiaomeng Li

In recent years, semi-supervised learning (SSL) has shown tremendous success in leveraging unlabeled data to improve the performance of deep learning models, which significantly reduces the demand for large amounts of labeled data. Many SSL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Song-Bo Yang , Tian-li Yu

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

In the context of the global coronavirus pandemic, different deep learning solutions for infected subject detection using chest X-ray images have been proposed. However, deep learning models usually need large labelled datasets to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Saul Calderon-Ramirez , Shengxiang Yang , David Elizondo , Armaghan Moemeni

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have proven effective in solving the task of semantic segmentation. However, their efficiency heavily relies on the pixel-level annotations that are expensive to get and often require domain expertise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Ostap Viniavskyi , Mariia Dobko , Oles Dobosevych

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation, but it often suffers from unstable pseudo labels under extremely limited annotations, leading to inaccurate supervision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ruili Li , Jiayi Ding , Ruiyu Li , Yilun Jin , Shiwen Ge , Yuwen Zeng , Xiaoyong Zhang , Eichi Takaya , Jan Vrba , Noriyasu Homma

To overcome the data-hungry challenge, we have proposed a semi-supervised contrastive learning framework for the task of class-imbalanced semantic segmentation. First and foremost, to make the model operate in a semi-supervised manner, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Kangcheng Liu

Compared to supervised learning, semi-supervised learning reduces the dependence of deep learning on a large number of labeled samples. In this work, we use a small number of labeled samples and perform data augmentation on unlabeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Qiuyu Zhu , Tiantian Li

Convolutional networks have marked their place over the last few years as the best performing model for various visual tasks. They are, however, most suited for supervised learning from large amounts of labeled data. Previous attempts have…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-23 Elad Hoffer , Itay Hubara , Nir Ailon

Supervised learning demands large amounts of precisely annotated data to achieve promising results. Such data curation is labor-intensive and imposes significant overhead regarding time and costs. Self-supervised learning (SSL) partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Thangarajah Akilan , Nusrat Jahan , Wandong Zhang