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Medical image segmentation plays a critical role in clinical decision-making, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. However, accurate segmentation of medical images is challenging due to several factors, such as the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Zihan Li , Yuan Zheng , Xiangde Luo , Dandan Shan , Qingqi Hong

Curating a large set of fully annotated training data can be costly, especially for the tasks of medical image segmentation. Scribble, a weaker form of annotation, is more obtainable in practice, but training segmentation models from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Ke Zhang , Xiahai Zhuang

Segmenting internal structure from echocardiography is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of various heart diseases. Semi-supervised learning shows its ability in alleviating annotations scarcity. While existing semi-supervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Xiaoxiang Han , Yiman Liu , Jiang Shang , Qingli Li , Jiangang Chen , Menghan Hu , Qi Zhang , Yuqi Zhang , Yan Wang

In the recent years, convolutional neural networks have transformed the field of medical image analysis due to their capacity to learn discriminative image features for a variety of classification and regression tasks. However, successfully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Wenjia Bai , Chen Chen , Giacomo Tarroni , Jinming Duan , Florian Guitton , Steffen E. Petersen , Yike Guo , Paul M. Matthews , Daniel Rueckert

Curating large-scale fully annotated datasets is expensive, laborious, and cumbersome, especially for medical images. Several methods have been proposed in the literature that make use of weak annotations in the form of scribbles. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Ke Zhang , Vishal M. Patel

Nowadays, cardiac diagnosis largely depends on left ventricular function assessment. With the help of the segmentation deep learning model, the assessment of the left ventricle becomes more accessible and accurate. However, deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Hang Duong Thi Thuy , Tuan Nguyen Minh , Phi Nguyen Van , Long Tran Quoc

Medical ultrasound imaging is ubiquitous, but manual analysis struggles to keep pace. Automated segmentation can help but requires large labeled datasets, which are scarce. Semi-supervised learning leveraging both unlabeled and limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Yaxiong Chen , Yujie Wang , Zixuan Zheng , Jingliang Hu , Yilei Shi , Shengwu Xiong , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Lichao Mou

Scribble-based weakly-supervised semantic segmentation using sparse scribble supervision is gaining traction as it reduces annotation costs when compared to fully annotated alternatives. Existing methods primarily generate pseudo-labels by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xinliang Zhang , Lei Zhu , Hangzhou He , Lujia Jin , Yanye Lu

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

This paper proposes a novel pseudo-labeling method for medical image segmentation that can perform learning on ``individual images'' to select effective pseudo-labels. We introduce Positive and Unlabeled Learning (PU learning), which uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Takehiro Yamane , Itaru Tsuge , Susumu Saito , Ryoma Bise

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation helps assist diagnosis and accelerate the treatment process while the model training usually requires large-scale dense annotation datasets. Weakly semi-supervised medical image segmentation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Shiman Li , Jiayue Zhao , Shaolei Liu , Xiaokun Dai , Chenxi Zhang , Zhijian Song

Pixel-wise segmentation is one of the most data and annotation hungry tasks in our field. Providing representative and accurate annotations is often mission-critical especially for challenging medical applications. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Simon Reiß , Constantin Seibold , Alexander Freytag , Erik Rodner , Rainer Stiefelhagen

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

Positive-Unlabeled (PU) learning tries to learn binary classifiers from a few labeled positive examples with many unlabeled ones. Compared with ordinary semi-supervised learning, this task is much more challenging due to the absence of any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Yunrui Zhao , Qianqian Xu , Yangbangyan Jiang , Peisong Wen , Qingming Huang

Semi-supervised learning has attracted much attention in medical image segmentation due to challenges in acquiring pixel-wise image annotations, which is a crucial step for building high-performance deep learning methods. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Shuailin Li , Chuyu Zhang , Xuming He

The segmentation of coronary arteries in X-ray angiograms by convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is promising yet limited by the requirement of precisely annotating all pixels in a large number of training images, which is extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Jingyang Zhang , Guotai Wang , Hongzhi Xie , Shuyang Zhang , Ning Huang , Shaoting Zhang , Lixu Gu

Echocardiography (echo) is the first imaging modality used when assessing cardiac function. The measurement of functional biomarkers from echo relies upon the segmentation of cardiac structures and deep learning models have been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Iman Islam , Esther Puyol-Antón , Bram Ruijsink , Andrew J. Reader , Andrew P. King

Producing densely annotated data is a difficult and tedious task for medical imaging applications. To address this problem, we propose a novel approach to generate supervision for semi-supervised semantic segmentation. We argue that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-10 Constantin Seibold , Simon Reiß , Jens Kleesiek , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Deep neural networks usually require accurate and a large number of annotations to achieve outstanding performance in medical image segmentation. One-shot segmentation and weakly-supervised learning are promising research directions that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Wenhui Lei , Qi Su , Ran Gu , Na Wang , Xinglong Liu , Guotai Wang , Xiaofan Zhang , Shaoting Zhang

Semi-supervised learning relaxes the need of large pixel-wise labeled datasets for image segmentation by leveraging unlabeled data. A prominent way to exploit unlabeled data is to regularize model predictions. Since the predictions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Sukesh Adiga , Jose Dolz , Herve Lombaert