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Scribble annotations significantly reduce the cost and labor required for dense labeling in large medical datasets with complex anatomical structures. However, current scribble-supervised learning methods are limited in their ability to…

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Recent advances in generative models, such as diffusion models, have made generating high-quality synthetic images widely accessible. Prior works have shown that training on synthetic images improves many perception tasks, such as image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Jacob Schnell , Jieke Wang , Lu Qi , Vincent Tao Hu , Meng Tang

Weakly supervised learning with scribble annotations uses sparse user-drawn strokes to indicate segmentation labels on a small subset of pixels. This annotation reduces the cost of dense pixel-wise labeling, but suffers inherently from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yeva Gabrielyan , Varduhi Yeghiazaryan , Irina Voiculescu

Large-scale data is of crucial importance for learning semantic segmentation models, but annotating per-pixel masks is a tedious and inefficient procedure. We note that for the topic of interactive image segmentation, scribbles are very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Di Lin , Jifeng Dai , Jiaya Jia , Kaiming He , Jian Sun

Scribble-based weakly supervised segmentation methods have shown promising results in medical image segmentation, significantly reducing annotation costs. However, existing approaches often rely on auxiliary tasks to enforce semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zhisong Wang , Yiwen Ye , Ziyang Chen , Minglei Shu , Yanning Zhang , Yong Xia

Semantic segmentation using convolutional neural networks (CNN) is a crucial component in image analysis. Training a CNN to perform semantic segmentation requires a large amount of labeled data, where the production of such labeled data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Ying Chen , Xu Ouyang , Kaiyue Zhu , Gady Agam

Recently, machine learning-based semantic segmentation algorithms have demonstrated their potential to accurately segment regions and contours in medical images, allowing the precise location of anatomical structures and abnormalities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yifei Wang , Chuhong Zhu

Scribble-based weakly supervised semantic segmentation leverages only a few annotated pixels as labels to train a segmentation model, presenting significant potential for reducing the human labor involved in the annotation process. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xinliang Zhang , Lei Zhu , Shuang Zeng , Hangzhou He , Ourui Fu , Zhengjian Yao , Zhaoheng Xie , Yanye Lu

Surgical image segmentation is highly challenging, primarily due to scarcity of annotated data. Generalist prompted segmentation models like the Segment-Anything Model (SAM) can help tackle this task, but because they require image-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Aditya Murali , Farahdiba Zarin , Adrien Meyer , Pietro Mascagni , Didier Mutter , Nicolas Padoy

Most recent scribble-supervised segmentation methods commonly adopt a CNN framework with an encoder-decoder architecture. Despite its multiple benefits, this framework generally can only capture small-range feature dependency for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Zihan Li , Yuan Zheng , Dandan Shan , Shuzhou Yang , Qingde Li , Beizhan Wang , Yuanting Zhang , Qingqi Hong , Dinggang Shen

In weakly supervised medical image segmentation, the absence of structural priors and the discreteness of class feature distribution present a challenge, i.e., how to accurately propagate supervision signals from local to global regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yu Lei , Haolun Luo , Lituan Wang , Zhenwei Zhang , Lei Zhang

In this work, we introduce Scribbles for All, a label and training data generation algorithm for semantic segmentation trained on scribble labels. Training or fine-tuning semantic segmentation models with weak supervision has become an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Wolfgang Boettcher , Lukas Hoyer , Ozan Unal , Jan Eric Lenssen , Bernt Schiele

Although semi-supervised learning has made significant advances in the field of medical image segmentation, fully annotating a volumetric sample slice by slice remains a costly and time-consuming task. Even worse, most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Ke Yan , Qing Cai , Fan Zhang , Ziyan Cao , Zhi Liu

Cardiac segmentation is an essential step for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. However, pixel-wise dense labeling is both costly and time-consuming. Scribble, as a form of sparse annotation, is more accessible than full…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Ke Zhang , Xiahai Zhuang

Deep learning has shown remarkable progress in medical image semantic segmentation, yet its success heavily depends on large-scale expert annotations and consistent data distributions. In practice, annotations are scarce, and images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Ba-Thinh Lam , Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Hoang-Thien Nguyen , Quang-Khai Bui-Tran , Nguyen Lan Vi Vu , Phat K. Huynh , Ulas Bagci , Min Xu

Scribble-guided image editing allows users to combine simple scribble annotations with text prompts to specify both where and how an image should be edited, enabling flexible interaction with precise spatial control. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Mingyi Xu , Jinpeng Lin , Min Zhou , Tiezheng Ge , Ming Zeng

Semi-supervised learning has demonstrated great potential in medical image segmentation by utilizing knowledge from unlabeled data. However, most existing approaches do not explicitly capture high-level semantic relations between distant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Qianying Liu , Xiao Gu , Paul Henderson , Fani Deligianni

Although deep convolutional networks have reached state-of-the-art performance in many medical image segmentation tasks, they have typically demonstrated poor generalisation capability. To be able to generalise from one domain (e.g. one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Reuben Dorent , Samuel Joutard , Jonathan Shapey , Sotirios Bisdas , Neil Kitchen , Robert Bradford , Shakeel Saeed , Marc Modat , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren

The deployment of advanced deep learning models for medical image segmentation is often constrained by the requirement for extensively annotated datasets. Weakly-supervised learning, which allows less precise labels, has become a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Thien B. Nguyen-Tat , Hoang-An Vo , Phuoc-Sang Dang

Despite the remarkable performance of deep learning methods on various tasks, most cutting-edge models rely heavily on large-scale annotated training examples, which are often unavailable for clinical and health care tasks. The labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jialin Peng , Ye Wang