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Segmentation of anatomical structures is a fundamental image analysis task for many applications in the medical field. Deep learning methods have been shown to perform well, but for this purpose large numbers of manual annotations are…

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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…

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Multi-atlas segmentation is a widely used tool in medical image analysis, providing robust and accurate results by learning from annotated atlas datasets. However, the availability of fully annotated atlas images for training is limited due…

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Manual annotation of medical images is a labor-intensive and time-consuming process, posing a significant bottleneck in the development and deployment of robust medical imaging AI systems. This paper introduces a novel hands-free Human-AI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Yizhe Zhang

For brain tumour segmentation, deep learning models can achieve human expert-level performance given a large amount of data and pixel-level annotations. However, the expensive exercise of obtaining pixel-level annotations for large amounts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Xiao Liu , Antanas Kascenas , Hannah Watson , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris , Alison Q. O'Neil

Deep learning methods for brain tumor segmentation are typically trained in an ad hoc fashion on all available data. Brain tumors are tremendously heterogeneous in image appearance and labeled training data is limited. We argue that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-31 Raphael Meier , Michael Rebsamen , Urspeter Knecht , Mauricio Reyes , Roland Wiest , Richard McKinley

Deep learning models have demonstrated great potential in medical 3D imaging, but their development is limited by the expensive, large volume of annotated data required. Active learning (AL) addresses this by training a model on a subset of…

Image collections, if critical aspects of image content are exposed, can spur research and practical applications in many domains. Supervised machine learning may be the only feasible way to annotate very large collections, but leading…

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Supervised learning-based segmentation methods typically require a large number of annotated training data to generalize well at test time. In medical applications, curating such datasets is not a favourable option because acquiring a large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Krishna Chaitanya , Neerav Karani , Christian F. Baumgartner , Ertunc Erdil , Anton Becker , Olivio Donati , Ender Konukoglu

Medical image analysis requires substantial labeled data for model training, yet expert annotation is expensive and time-consuming. Active learning (AL) addresses this challenge by strategically selecting the most informative samples for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Ifrat Ikhtear Uddin , Longwei Wang , Xiao Qin , Yang Zhou , KC Santosh

Automatic segmentation of brain tumors is an essential but challenging step for extracting quantitative imaging biomarkers for accurate tumor detection, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment planning and assessment. Multimodal Brain Tumor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Yading Yuan

Annotation cost is a bottleneck for collecting massive data in mammography, especially for training deep neural networks. In this paper, we study the use of heterogeneous levels of annotation granularity to improve predictive performances.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-13 Thi-Lam-Thuy Le , Nicolas Thome , Sylvain Bernard , Vincent Bismuth , Fanny Patoureaux

Brain tumors in magnetic resonance imaging (MR) are difficult, time-consuming, and prone to human error. These challenges can be resolved by developing automatic brain tumor segmentation methods from MR images. Various deep-learning models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Subin Sahayam , John Michael Sujay Zakkam , Yoga Sri Varshan , Umarani Jayaraman

Automated brain tumor segmentation methods have become well-established and reached performance levels offering clear clinical utility. These methods typically rely on four input magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) modalities: T1-weighted…

Brain tumor segmentation remains a significant challenge, particularly in the context of multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) where missing modality images are common in clinical settings, leading to reduced segmentation accuracy.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Zhongao Sun , Jiameng Li , Yuhan Wang , Jiarong Cheng , Qing Zhou , Chun Li

An often overlooked problem in medical image segmentation research is the effective selection of training subsets to annotate from a complete set of unlabelled data. Many studies select their training sets at random, which may lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Stephen Lloyd-Brown , Susan Francis , Caroline Hoad , Penny Gowland , Karen Mullinger , Andrew French , Xin Chen

Manual annotation of medical images is highly subjective, leading to inevitable and huge annotation biases. Deep learning models may surpass human performance on a variety of tasks, but they may also mimic or amplify these biases. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Zehui Liao , Shishuai Hu , Yutong Xie , Yong Xia

Brain tumor segmentation plays an essential role in medical image analysis. In recent studies, deep convolution neural networks (DCNNs) are extremely powerful to tackle tumor segmentation tasks. We propose in this paper a novel training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Hieu T. Nguyen , Tung T. Le , Thang V. Nguyen , Nhan T. Nguyen

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