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General purpose semantic segmentation relies on a backbone CNN network to extract discriminative features that help classify each image pixel into a 'seen' object class (ie., the object classes available during training) or a background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Ce Wang , Moshiur Farazi , Nick Barnes

Most of the current state-of-the-art methods for tumor segmentation are based on machine learning models trained on manually segmented images. This type of training data is particularly costly, as manual delineation of tumors is not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Pawel Mlynarski , Hervé Delingette , Antonio Criminisi , Nicholas Ayache

Medical ultrasound image segmentation faces significant challenges due to limited labeled data and characteristic imaging artifacts including speckle noise and low-contrast boundaries. While semi-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Jingguo Qu , Xinyang Han , Yao Pu , Man-Lik Chui , Simon Takadiyi Gunda , Ziman Chen , Jing Qin , Ann Dorothy King , Winnie Chiu-Wing Chu , Jing Cai , Michael Tin-Cheung Ying

In this paper we consider the problem of unsupervised anomaly segmentation in medical images, which has attracted increasing attention in recent years due to the expensive pixel-level annotations from experts and the existence of a large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-20 Raunak Dey , Wenbo Sun , Haibo Xu , Yi Hong

In this paper, we propose a novel mutual consistency network (MC-Net+) to effectively exploit the unlabeled data for semi-supervised medical image segmentation. The MC-Net+ model is motivated by the observation that deep models trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Yicheng Wu , Zongyuan Ge , Donghao Zhang , Minfeng Xu , Lei Zhang , Yong Xia , Jianfei Cai

Recent studies demonstrated the eligibility of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for solving the image registration problem. CNNs enable faster transformation estimation and greater generalization capability needed for better support…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Oleksii Bashkanov , Anneke Meyer , Daniel Schindele , Martin Schostak , Klaus Tönnies , Christian Hansen , Marko Rak

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

Unsupervised Multi-View Stereo (MVS) methods have achieved promising progress recently. However, previous methods primarily depend on the photometric consistency assumption, which may suffer from two limitations: indistinguishable regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Kaiqiang Xiong , Rui Peng , Zhe Zhang , Tianxing Feng , Jianbo Jiao , Feng Gao , Ronggang Wang

Medical image segmentation has been widely recognized as a pivot procedure for clinical diagnosis, analysis, and treatment planning. However, the laborious and expensive annotation process lags down the speed of further advances.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Zhuowei Li , Zihao Liu , Zhiqiang Hu , Qing Xia , Ruiqin Xiong , Shaoting Zhang , Dimitris Metaxas , Tingting Jiang

Semi-supervised learning has the potential to improve the data-efficiency of training data-hungry deep neural networks, which is especially important for medical image analysis tasks where labeled data is scarce. In this work, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Boon Peng Yap , Beng Koon Ng

Partially-supervised instance segmentation is a task which requests segmenting objects from novel unseen categories via learning on limited seen categories with annotated masks thus eliminating demands of heavy annotation burden. The key to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Xuehui Wang , Kai Zhao , Ruixin Zhang , Shouhong Ding , Yan Wang , Wei Shen

Supervised deep learning-based methods yield accurate results for medical image segmentation. However, they require large labeled datasets for this, and obtaining them is a laborious task that requires clinical expertise.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Krishna Chaitanya , Ertunc Erdil , Neerav Karani , Ender Konukoglu

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

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

Recently, seismic facies classification based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) has garnered significant research interest. However, existing CNN-based supervised learning approaches necessitate massive labeled data. Labeling is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Kewen Li , Wenlong Liu , Yimin Dou , Zhifeng Xu , Hongjie Duan , Ruilin Jing

Contrastive learning, which aims to capture general representation from unlabeled images to initialize the medical analysis models, has been proven effective in alleviating the high demand for expensive annotations. Current methods mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Huai Chen , Renzhen Wang , Xiuying Wang , Jieyu Li , Qu Fang , Hui Li , Jianhao Bai , Qing Peng , Deyu Meng , Lisheng Wang

Medical image segmentation, or computing voxelwise semantic masks, is a fundamental yet challenging task to compute a voxel-level semantic mask. To increase the ability of encoder-decoder neural networks to perform this task across large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Ho Hin Lee , Yucheng Tang , Qi Yang , Xin Yu , Shunxing Bao , Leon Y. Cai , Lucas W. Remedios , Bennett A. Landman , Yuankai Huo

Automatic segmentation of magnetic resonance (MR) images is crucial for morphological evaluation of the pediatric musculoskeletal system in clinical practice. However, the accuracy and generalization performance of individual segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Arnaud Boutillon , Pierre-Henri Conze , Christelle Pons , Valérie Burdin , Bhushan Borotikar

Deep neural networks have reached remarkable achievements in medical image processing tasks, specifically in classifying and detecting various diseases. However, when confronted with limited data, these networks face a critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Matina Mahdizadeh Sani , Ali Royat , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Vision Transformer has recently gained tremendous popularity in medical image segmentation task due to its superior capability in capturing long-range dependencies. However, transformer requires a large amount of labeled data to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Lei Zhu , Jun Zhou , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Yong Liu