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Most state-of-the-art instance segmentation methods have to be trained on densely annotated images. While difficult in general, this requirement is especially daunting for biomedical images, where domain expertise is often required for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Adrian Wolny , Qin Yu , Constantin Pape , Anna Kreshuk

Background: The quantitative analysis of microscope videos often requires instance segmentation and tracking of cellular and subcellular objects. The traditional method consists of two stages: (1) performing instance object segmentation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Quan Liu , Isabella M. Gaeta , Mengyang Zhao , Ruining Deng , Aadarsh Jha , Bryan A. Millis , Anita Mahadevan-Jansen , Matthew J. Tyska , Yuankai Huo

Semi-supervised learning, which leverages both annotated and unannotated data, is an efficient approach for medical image segmentation, where obtaining annotations for the whole dataset is time-consuming and costly. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Ruizhe Li , Grazziela Figueredo , Dorothee Auer , Rob Dineen , Paul Morgan , Xin Chen

Unsupervised image segmentation aims at assigning the pixels with similar feature into a same cluster without annotation, which is an important task in computer vision. Due to lack of prior knowledge, most of existing model usually need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Zhichao Wu , Lei Guo , Hao Zhang , Dan Xu

Segmentation of images is a long-standing challenge in medical AI. This is mainly due to the fact that training a neural network to perform image segmentation requires a significant number of pixel-level annotated data, which is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Himashi Peiris , Zhaolin Chen , Gary Egan , Mehrtash Harandi

We develop Self2Seg, a self-supervised method for the joint segmentation and denoising of a single image. To this end, we combine the advantages of variational segmentation with self-supervised deep learning. One major benefit of our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Nadja Gruber , Johannes Schwab , Noémie Debroux , Nicolas Papadakis , Markus Haltmeier

Fluorescence microscopy is an essential tool for the analysis of 3D subcellular structures in tissue. An important step in the characterization of tissue involves nuclei segmentation. In this paper, a two-stage method for segmentation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-10 David Joon Ho , Shuo Han , Chichen Fu , Paul Salama , Kenneth W. Dunn , Edward J. Delp

We study the problem of unsupervised discovery and segmentation of object parts, which, as an intermediate local representation, are capable of finding intrinsic object structure and providing more explainable recognition results. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Shilong Liu , Lei Zhang , Xiao Yang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Accurate segmentation of ultrasound (US) images of the cervical muscles is crucial for precision healthcare. The demand for automatic computer-assisted methods is high. However, the scarcity of labeled data hinders the development of these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Fangyijie Wang , Kathleen M. Curran , Guénolé Silvestre

We propose a software platform that integrates methods and tools for multi-objective parameter auto- tuning in tissue image segmentation workflows. The goal of our work is to provide an approach for improving the accuracy of nucleus/cell…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Luis F. R. Taveira , Tahsin Kurc , Alba C. M. A. Melo , Jun Kong , Erich Bremer , Joel H. Saltz , George Teodoro

Recently, progress in acquisition equipment such as LiDAR sensors has enabled sensing increasingly spacious outdoor 3D environments. Making sense of such 3D acquisitions requires fine-grained scene understanding, such as constructing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Cedric Perauer , Laurenz Adrian Heidrich , Haifan Zhang , Matthias Nießner , Anastasiia Kornilova , Alexey Artemov

Nuclei instance segmentation in pathological images is crucial for downstream tasks such as tumor microenvironment analysis. However, the high cost and scarcity of annotated data limit the applicability of fully supervised methods, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zenan Lin , Wei Li , Jintao Chen , Zihao Wu , Wenxiong Kang , Changxin Gao , Liansheng Wang , Jin-Gang Yu

Tissue-level semantic segmentation is a vital step in computational pathology. Fully-supervised models have already achieved outstanding performance with dense pixel-level annotations. However, drawing such labels on the giga-pixel whole…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-18 Chu Han , Jiatai Lin , Jinhai Mai , Yi Wang , Qingling Zhang , Bingchao Zhao , Xin Chen , Xipeng Pan , Zhenwei Shi , Xiaowei Xu , Su Yao , Lixu Yan , Huan Lin , Zeyan Xu , Xiaomei Huang , Guoqiang Han , Changhong Liang , Zaiyi Liu

Subspace clustering is a powerful unsupervised approach for hyperspectral image (HSI) analysis, but its high computational and memory costs limit scalability. Superpixel segmentation can improve efficiency by reducing the number of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xianlu Li , Nicolas Nadisic , Shaoguang Huang , Aleksandra Pizurica

Transvaginal ultrasound is a critical imaging modality for evaluating cervical anatomy and detecting physiological changes. However, accurate segmentation of cervical structures remains challenging due to low contrast, shadow artifacts, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Tran Quoc Khanh Le , Nguyen Lan Vi Vu , Ha-Hieu Pham , Xuan-Loc Huynh , Tien-Huy Nguyen , Minh Huu Nhat Le , Quan Nguyen , Hien D. Nguyen

Instance segmentation is an active topic in computer vision that is usually solved by using supervised learning approaches over very large datasets composed of object level masks. Obtaining such a dataset for any new domain can be very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Zhenzhen Weng , Mehmet Giray Ogut , Shai Limonchik , Serena Yeung

Hyperspectral images (HSIs) have been widely applied in many fields, such as military, agriculture, and environment monitoring. Nevertheless, HSIs commonly suffer from various types of noise during acquisition. Therefore, denoising is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Yan Gao , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong

One of the fundamental challenges in microscopy (MS) image analysis is instance segmentation (IS), particularly when segmenting cluster regions where multiple objects of varying sizes and shapes may be connected or even overlapped in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Jun Wang , Chengfeng Zhou , Zhaoyan Ming , Lina Wei , Xudong Jiang , Dahong Qian

Current deep learning-based approaches for the segmentation of microscopy images heavily rely on large amount of training data with dense annotation, which is highly costly and laborious in practice. Compared to full annotation where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Shijie Li , Mengwei Ren , Thomas Ach , Guido Gerig

Biomedical image segmentation plays a significant role in computer-aided diagnosis. However, existing CNN based methods rely heavily on massive manual annotations, which are very expensive and require huge human resources. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Ruifei Zhang , Sishuo Liu , Yizhou Yu , Guanbin Li