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Medical image segmentation is a crucial task in medical image analysis, but it can be very challenging especially when there are less labeled data but with large unlabeled data. Contrastive learning has proven to be effective for medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Shihuan He , Zhihui Lai , Ruxin Wang , Heng Kong

The segmentation of endoscopic images plays a vital role in computer-aided diagnosis and treatment. The advancements in deep learning have led to the employment of numerous models for endoscopic tumor segmentation, achieving promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Lingcong Cai , Yun Li , Xiaomao Fan , Kaixuan Song , Ruxin Wang , Wenbin Lei

To date, most existing self-supervised learning methods are designed and optimized for image classification. These pre-trained models can be sub-optimal for dense prediction tasks due to the discrepancy between image-level prediction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Xinlong Wang , Rufeng Zhang , Chunhua Shen , Tao Kong , Lei Li

Segmentation is one of the most important tasks in the medical imaging pipeline as it influences a number of image-based decisions. To be effective, fully supervised segmentation approaches require large amounts of manually annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Tyler Ward , Aaron Moseley , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

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

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) has gained significant popularity since it relies only on weak labels such as image level annotations rather than pixel level annotations required by supervised semantic segmentation (SSS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Kunhao Yuan , Gerald Schaefer , Yu-Kun Lai , Yifan Wang , Xiyao Liu , Lin Guan , Hui Fang

Collecting labeled data for the task of semantic segmentation is expensive and time-consuming, as it requires dense pixel-level annotations. While recent Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based semantic segmentation approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Xiangyun Zhao , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Philip Mansfield , Boqing Gong , Bradley Green , Lior Shapira , Ying Wu

Semi-supervised learning has substantially advanced medical image segmentation since it alleviates the heavy burden of acquiring the costly expert-examined annotations. Especially, the consistency-based approaches have attracted more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Zhe Xu , Yixin Wang , Donghuan Lu , Lequan Yu , Jiangpeng Yan , Jie Luo , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng , Raymond Kai-yu Tong

Recent years have witnessed a great development of Convolutional Neural Networks in semantic segmentation, where all classes of training images are simultaneously available. In practice, new images are usually made available in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Hanbin Zhao , Fengyu Yang , Xinghe Fu , Xi Li

Despite their effectiveness, current deep learning models face challenges with images coming from different domains with varying appearance and content. We introduce SegCLR, a versatile framework designed to segment images across different…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Alvaro Gomariz , Yusuke Kikuchi , Yun Yvonna Li , Thomas Albrecht , Andreas Maunz , Daniela Ferrara , Huanxiang Lu , Orcun Goksel

Limited labeled data hinder the application of deep learning in medical domain. In clinical practice, there are sufficient unlabeled data that are not effectively used, and semi-supervised learning (SSL) is a promising way for leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Along He , Tao Li , Yanlin Wu , Ke Zou , Huazhu Fu

We focus on tackling weakly supervised semantic segmentation with scribble-level annotation. The regularized loss has been proven to be an effective solution for this task. However, most existing regularized losses only leverage static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Bingfeng Zhang , Jimin Xiao , Yao Zhao

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation requires the model to effectively propagate the label information from limited annotated images to unlabeled ones. A challenge for such a per-pixel prediction task is the large intra-class variation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hai-Ming Xu , Lingqiao Liu , Qiuchen Bian , Zhen Yang

Semi-supervised segmentation methods have demonstrated promising results in natural scenarios, providing a solution to reduce dependency on manual annotation. However, these methods face significant challenges when directly applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Ye Zhang , Ziyue Wang , Yifeng Wang , Hao Bian , Linghan Cai , Hengrui Li , Lingbo Zhang , Yongbing Zhang

This paper introduces a semi-supervised contrastive learning framework and its application to text-independent speaker verification. The proposed framework employs generalized contrastive loss (GCL). GCL unifies losses from two different…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Nakamasa Inoue , Keita Goto

Learning meaningful frame-wise features on a partially labeled dataset is crucial to semi-supervised sound event detection. Prior works either maintain consistency on frame-level predictions or seek feature-level similarity among…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Yiming Li , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu , Rui Tao , Long Yan , Kazushige Ouchi

In this work, we study the continual semantic segmentation problem, where the deep neural networks are required to incorporate new classes continually without catastrophic forgetting. We propose to use a structural re-parameterization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Chang-Bin Zhang , Jia-Wen Xiao , Xialei Liu , Ying-Cong Chen , Ming-Ming Cheng

Most of the recent Deep Semantic Segmentation algorithms suffer from large generalization errors, even when powerful hierarchical representation models based on convolutional neural networks have been employed. This could be attributed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Javed Iqbal , Mohsen Ali

Semantic segmentation of various tissue and nuclei types in histology images is fundamental to many downstream tasks in the area of computational pathology (CPath). In recent years, Deep Learning (DL) methods have been shown to perform well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Raja Muhammad Saad Bashir , Talha Qaiser , Shan E Ahmed Raza , Nasir M. Rajpoot

Due to the scarcity of labeled data, Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) frameworks have lately shown great potential in several medical image analysis tasks. However, the existing contrastive mechanisms are sub-optimal for dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Hritam Basak , Soumitri Chattopadhyay , Rohit Kundu , Sayan Nag , Rammohan Mallipeddi