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Obtaining annotations for 3D medical images is expensive and time-consuming, despite its importance for automating segmentation tasks. Although multi-task learning is considered an effective method for training segmentation models using…

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Contrastive learning and self-supervised techniques have gained prevalence in computer vision for the past few years. It is essential for medical image analysis, which is often notorious for its lack of annotations. Most existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Jun Li , Quan Quan , S. Kevin Zhou

This paper presents a simple yet effective two-stage framework for semi-supervised medical image segmentation. Unlike prior state-of-the-art semi-supervised segmentation methods that predominantly rely on pseudo supervision directly on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Huimin Wu , Xiaomeng Li , Kwang-Ting Cheng

To bridge the gap between the source and target domains in unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA), the most common strategy puts focus on matching the marginal distributions in the feature space through adversarial learning. However, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Zhizhe Liu , Zhenfeng Zhu , Shuai Zheng , Yang Liu , Jiayu Zhou , Yao Zhao

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental yet challenging task due to the arduous process of acquiring large volumes of high-quality labeled data from experts. Contrastive learning offers a promising but still problematic solution to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Shuang Zeng , Lei Zhu , Xinliang Zhang , Micky C Nnamdi , Wenqi Shi , J Ben Tamo , Qian Chen , Hangzhou He , Lujia Jin , Zifeng Tian , Qiushi Ren , Zhaoheng Xie , Yanye Lu

Medical image registration is a fundamental task in medical image analysis, enabling the alignment of images from different modalities or time points. However, intensity inconsistencies and nonlinear tissue deformations pose significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Eytan Kats , Christoph Grossbroehmer , Ziad Al-Haj Hemidi , Fenja Falta , Wiebke Heyer , Mattias P. Heinrich

Deep learning based semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods have achieved strong performance in medical image segmentation, which can alleviate doctors' expensive annotation by utilizing a large amount of unlabeled data. Unlike most existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Zihang Xu , Zhenghua Xu , Shuo Zhang , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Despite the remarkable performance of supervised medical image segmentation models, relying on a large amount of labeled data is impractical in real-world situations. Semi-supervised learning approaches aim to alleviate this challenge using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yunyao Lu , Yihang Wu , Ahmad Chaddad , Tareef Daqqaq , Reem Kateb

Since annotating medical images for segmentation tasks commonly incurs expensive costs, it is highly desirable to design an annotation-efficient method to alleviate the annotation burden. Recently, contrastive learning has exhibited a great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yixuan Wu , Jintai Chen , Jiahuan Yan , Yiheng Zhu , Danny Z. Chen , Jian Wu

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 2022-04-26 Yawen Wu , Dewen Zeng , Zhepeng Wang , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

In medical image analysis, multi-organ semi-supervised segmentation faces challenges such as insufficient labels and low contrast in soft tissues. To address these issues, existing studies typically employ semi-supervised segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Feilong Tang , Zhongxing Xu , Ming Hu , Wenxue Li , Peng Xia , Yiheng Zhong , Hanjun Wu , Jionglong Su , Zongyuan Ge

Learning discriminative representations of unlabelled data is a challenging task. Contrastive self-supervised learning provides a framework to learn meaningful representations using learned notions of similarity measures from simple pretext…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Nicklas Boserup , Raghavendra Selvan

Self-supervised instance discrimination is an effective contrastive pretext task to learn feature representations and address limited medical image annotations. The idea is to make features of transformed versions of the same images similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Yejia Zhang , Xinrong Hu , Nishchal Sapkota , Yiyu Shi , Danny Z. Chen

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

We propose a framework using contrastive learning as a pre-training task to perform image classification in the presence of noisy labels. Recent strategies such as pseudo-labeling, sample selection with Gaussian Mixture models, weighted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Madalina Ciortan , Romain Dupuis , Thomas Peel

Unets have become the standard method for semantic segmentation of medical images, along with fully convolutional networks (FCN). Unet++ was introduced as a variant of Unet, in order to solve some of the problems facing Unet and FCNs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Samayan Bhattacharya , Sk Shahnawaz , Avigyan Bhattacharya

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods using class labels often rely on class activation maps (CAMs) to localize objects. However, traditional CAM-based methods struggle with partial activations and imprecise object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Dewen Zeng , Xinrong Hu , Yu-Jen Chen , Yawen Wu , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi

Efficiently utilizing discriminative features is crucial for convolutional neural networks to achieve remarkable performance in medical image segmentation and is also important for model generalization across multiple domains, where letting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Ran Gu , Jiangshan Lu , Jingyang Zhang , Wenhui Lei , Xiaofan Zhang , Guotai Wang , Shaoting Zhang

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

Contrastive learning has proven useful in many applications where access to labelled data is limited. The lack of annotated data is particularly problematic in medical image segmentation as it is difficult to have clinical experts manually…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Mohamed Saeed , Rand Muhtaseb , Mohammad Yaqub