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Recent studies have demonstrated the superiority of deep learning in medical image analysis, especially in cell instance segmentation, a fundamental step for many biological studies. However, the excellent performance of the neural networks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Huaqian Wu , Nicolas Souedet , Caroline Jan , Cédric Clouchoux , Thierry Delzescaux

As deep learning methods continue to improve medical image segmentation performance, data annotation is still a big bottleneck due to the labor-intensive and time-consuming burden on medical experts, especially for 3D images. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yixuan Wu , Bo Zheng , Jintai Chen , Danny Z. Chen , Jian Wu

The lack of sufficient annotated image data is a common issue in medical image segmentation. For some organs and densities, the annotation may be scarce, leading to poor model training convergence, while other organs have plenty of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-22 Anastasia Makarevich , Azade Farshad , Vasileios Belagiannis , Nassir Navab

There exists a large number of datasets for organ segmentation, which are partially annotated and sequentially constructed. A typical dataset is constructed at a certain time by curating medical images and annotating the organs of interest.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Pengbo Liu , Xia Wang , Mengsi Fan , Hongli Pan , Minmin Yin , Xiaohong Zhu , Dandan Du , Xiaoying Zhao , Li Xiao , Lian Ding , Xingwang Wu , S. Kevin Zhou

In recent years, deep convolutional neural network-based segmentation methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance for many medical analysis tasks. However, most of these approaches rely on optimizing the U-Net structure or adding new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Kunpeng Mao , Ruoyu Li , Junlong Cheng , Danmei Huang , Zhiping Song , ZeKui Liu

Medical image annotation is a major hurdle for developing precise and robust machine learning models. Annotation is expensive, time-consuming, and often requires expert knowledge, particularly in the medical field. Here, we suggest using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Holger R Roth , Dong Yang , Ziyue Xu , Xiaosong Wang , Daguang Xu

To address the annotation scarcity issue in some cases of semantic segmentation, there have been a few attempts to develop the segmentation model in the few-shot learning paradigm. However, most existing methods only focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Pinzhuo Tian , Zhangkai Wu , Lei Qi , Lei Wang , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Two of the most common tasks in medical imaging are classification and segmentation. Either task requires labeled data annotated by experts, which is scarce and expensive to collect. Annotating data for segmentation is generally considered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ozan Ciga , Anne L. Martel

Despite deep convolutional neural networks achieved impressive progress in medical image computing and analysis, its paradigm of supervised learning demands a large number of annotations for training to avoid overfitting and achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Liyan Sun , Chenxin Li , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang , Guisheng Wang , Yizhou Yu

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in biomedical image processing, which recent breakthroughs in deep learning have allowed to improve. However, deep learning methods in general are not yet widely used in practice since they require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Melanie Lubrano di Scandalea , Christian S. Perone , Mathieu Boudreau , Julien Cohen-Adad

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

The success of deep learning methods in medical image segmentation tasks heavily depends on a large amount of labeled data to supervise the training. On the other hand, the annotation of biomedical images requires domain knowledge and can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Xinrong Hu , Dewen Zeng , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi

Semi-supervised medical image segmentation has attracted much attention in recent years because of the high cost of medical image annotations. In this paper, we propose a novel Inherent Consistent Learning (ICL) method, aims to learn robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Ye Zhu , Jie Yang , Si-Qi Liu , Ruimao Zhang

Automated and semi-automated techniques in biomedical electron microscopy (EM) enable the acquisition of large datasets at a high rate. Segmentation methods are therefore essential to analyze and interpret these large volumes of data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Anusha Aswath , Ahmad Alsahaf , Ben N. G. Giepmans , George Azzopardi

Traditional supervised 3D medical image segmentation models need voxel-level annotations, which require huge human effort, time, and cost. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) addresses this limitation of supervised learning by facilitating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Suruchi Kumari , Aryan Das , Swalpa Kumar Roy , Indu Joshi , Pravendra Singh

Unsupervised domain adaptive segmentation typically relies on self-training using pseudo labels predicted by a pre-trained network on an unlabeled target dataset. However, the noisy nature of such pseudo-labels presents a major bottleneck…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Md Shazid Islam , Sayak Nag , Arindam Dutta , Miraj Ahmed , Fahim Faisal Niloy , Shreyangshu Bera , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

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

Semi-supervised multi-organ medical image segmentation aids physicians in improving disease diagnosis and treatment planning and reduces the time and effort required for organ annotation.Existing state-of-the-art methods train the labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Haochen Zhao , Hui Meng , Deqian Yang , Xiaozheng Xie , Xiaoze Wu , Qingfeng Li , Jianwei Niu

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

Traditional supervised medical image segmentation models require large amounts of labeled data for training; however, obtaining such large-scale labeled datasets in the real world is extremely challenging. Recent semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yunyao Lu , Yihang Wu , Reem Kateb , Ahmad Chaddad