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This work tests a self-annotation-based unsupervised methodology for training a convolutional neural network (CNN) model for semantic segmentation of X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans of concretes. Concrete poses a unique challenge for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kaustav Das , Gaston Rauchs , Jan Sykora , Anna Kucerova

Background: The assessment of left ventricular (LV) function by myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPS) relies on accurate myocardial segmentation. The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate a new method incorporating deep learning with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Fubao Zhu , Jinyu Zhao , Chen Zhao , Shaojie Tang , Jiaofen Nan , Yanting Li , Zhongqiang Zhao , Jianzhou Shi , Zenghong Chen , Zhixin Jiang , Weihua Zhou

Accurate segmentation of the heart is an important step towards evaluating cardiac function. In this paper, we present a fully automated framework for segmentation of the left (LV) and right (RV) ventricular cavities and the myocardium…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Christian F. Baumgartner , Lisa M. Koch , Marc Pollefeys , Ender Konukoglu

This research aims to develop a novel deep learning network, GBU-Net, utilizing a group-batch-normalized U-Net framework, specifically designed for the precise semantic segmentation of the left ventricle in short-axis cine MRI scans. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Wenhui Chu , Aobo Jin , Hardik A. Gohel

Contrastive learning is a family of self-supervised methods where a model is trained to solve a classification task constructed from unlabeled data. It has recently emerged as one of the leading learning paradigms in the absence of labels…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-05 Bingbin Liu , Pradeep Ravikumar , Andrej Risteski

Deep neural networks usually require accurate and a large number of annotations to achieve outstanding performance in medical image segmentation. One-shot segmentation and weakly-supervised learning are promising research directions that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Wenhui Lei , Qi Su , Ran Gu , Na Wang , Xinglong Liu , Guotai Wang , Xiaofan Zhang , Shaoting Zhang

An accurate prostate delineation and volume characterization can support the clinical assessment of prostate cancer. A large amount of automatic prostate segmentation tools consider exclusively the axial MRI direction in spite of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Tim Nikolass Lindeijer , Tord Martin Ytredal , Trygve Eftestøl , Tobias Nordström , Fredrik Jäderling , Martin Eklund , Alvaro Fernandez-Quilez

Parotid gland tumor is a common type of head and neck tumor. Segmentation of the parotid glands and tumors by MR images is important for the treatment of parotid gland tumors. However, segmentation of the parotid glands is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Zi'an Xu , Yin Dai , Fayu Liu , Boyuan Wu , Weibing Chen , Lifu Shi

Deep convolutional neural networks have considerably improved state-of-the-art results for semantic segmentation. Nevertheless, even modern architectures lack the ability to generalize well to a test dataset that originates from a different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Robert A. Marsden , Alexander Bartler , Mario Döbler , Bin Yang

The ability to quickly annotate medical imaging data plays a critical role in training deep learning frameworks for segmentation. Doing so for image volumes or video sequences is even more pressing as annotating these is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Laurent Lejeune , Raphael Sznitman

This paper presents a novel positive and negative set selection strategy for contrastive learning of medical images based on labels that can be extracted from clinical data. In the medical field, there exists a variety of labels for data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Kiran Kokilepersaud , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

Accurate segmentation of coronary Digital Subtraction Angiography images is essential to diagnose and treat coronary artery diseases. Despite advances in deep learning, challenges such as high intra-class variance and class imbalance limit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Rayan Merghani Ahmed , Adnan Iltaf , Mohamed Elmanna , Gang Zhao , Hongliang Li , Yue Du , Bin Li , Shoujun Zhou

Quantification of cardiac structures in non-contrast CT (NCCT) could improve cardiovascular risk stratification. However, setting a manual reference to train a fully convolutional network (FCN) for automatic segmentation of NCCT images is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-22 Steffen Bruns , Jelmer M. Wolterink , Robbert W. van Hamersvelt , Tim Leiner , Ivana Išgum

We investigate a strategy for improving the efficiency of contrastive learning of visual representations by leveraging a small amount of supervised information during pre-training. We propose a semi-supervised loss, SuNCEt, based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Mahmoud Assran , Nicolas Ballas , Lluis Castrejon , Michael Rabbat

Automated animal censuses with aerial imagery are a vital ingredient towards wildlife conservation. Recent models are generally based on supervised learning and thus require vast amounts of training data. Due to their scarcity and minuscule…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Xiaochen Zheng

Manual segmentation of the Left Ventricle (LV) is a tedious and meticulous task that can vary depending on the patient, the Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) cuts and the experts. Still today, we consider manual delineation done by experts as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Alexandre Attia , Sharone Dayan

Self-training and contrastive learning have emerged as leading techniques for incorporating unlabeled data, both under distribution shift (unsupervised domain adaptation) and when it is absent (semi-supervised learning). However, despite…

We propose a novel approach that uses sparse annotations from clinical studies to train a 3D segmentation of the carotid artery wall. We use a centerline annotation to sample perpendicular cross-sections of the carotid artery and use an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Hinrich Rahlfs , Markus Hüllebrand , Sebastian Schmitter , Christoph Strecker , Andreas Harloff , Anja Hennemuth

A two-stage training paradigm consisting of sequential pre-training and meta-training stages has been widely used in current few-shot learning (FSL) research. Many of these methods use self-supervised learning and contrastive learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Zhanyuan Yang , Jinghua Wang , Yingying Zhu

Large medical imaging datasets can be cheaply and quickly annotated with low-confidence, weak labels (e.g., radiological scores). Access to high-confidence labels, such as histology-based diagnoses, is rare and costly. Pretraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Emma Sarfati , Alexandre Bône , Marc-Michel Rohé , Pietro Gori , Isabelle Bloch