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The scarcity of pixel-level annotation is a prevalent problem in medical image segmentation tasks. In this paper, we introduce a novel regularization strategy involving interpolation-based mixing for semi-supervised medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Hritam Basak , Rajarshi Bhattacharya , Rukhshanda Hussain , Agniv Chatterjee

Accurate identification of End-Diastolic (ED) and End-Systolic (ES) frames is key for cardiac function assessment through echocardiography. However, traditional methods face several limitations: they require extensive amounts of data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Zhenyu Bu , Yang Liu , Jiayu Huo , Jingjing Peng , Kaini Wang , Guangquan Zhou , Rachel Sparks , Prokar Dasgupta , Alejandro Granados , Sebastien Ourselin

Supervised machine learning provides state-of-the-art solutions to a wide range of computer vision problems. However, the need for copious labelled training data limits the capabilities of these algorithms in scenarios where such input is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 András Kalapos , Bálint Gyires-Tóth

In this paper, we study weakly-supervised laparoscopic image segmentation with sparse annotations. We introduce a novel Bayesian deep learning approach designed to enhance both the accuracy and interpretability of the model's segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Zhou Zheng , Yuichiro Hayashi , Masahiro Oda , Takayuki Kitasaka , Kensaku Mori

Accurate segmentation of fetal brain magnetic resonance images is crucial for analyzing fetal brain development and detecting potential neurodevelopmental abnormalities. Traditional deep learning-based automatic segmentation, although…

Many real-world applications have to tackle the Positive-Unlabeled (PU) learning problem, i.e., learning binary classifiers from a large amount of unlabeled data and a few labeled positive examples. While current state-of-the-art methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Xuxi Chen , Wuyang Chen , Tianlong Chen , Ye Yuan , Chen Gong , Kewei Chen , Zhangyang Wang

Medical image segmentation methods are generally designed as fully-supervised to guarantee model performance, which require a significant amount of expert annotated samples that are high-cost and laborious. Semi-supervised image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Xiangyu Zhao , Zengxin Qi , Sheng Wang , Qian Wang , Xuehai Wu , Ying Mao , Lichi Zhang

Partially-supervised learning can be challenging for segmentation due to the lack of supervision for unlabeled structures, and the methods directly applying fully-supervised learning could lead to incompatibility, meaning ground truth is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ke Zhang , Xiahai Zhuang

The success of deep learning methods in medical image segmentation tasks usually requires a large amount of labeled data. However, obtaining reliable annotations is expensive and time-consuming. Semi-supervised learning has attracted much…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Yichi Zhang , Jicong Zhang

Semi-supervised learning has proven highly effective in tackling the challenge of limited labeled training data in medical image segmentation. In general, current approaches, which rely on intra-image pixel-wise consistency training via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Han Wu , Chong Wang , Zhiming Cui

Surgical scene segmentation is fundamentally crucial for prompting cognitive assistance in robotic surgery. However, pixel-wise annotating surgical video in a frame-by-frame manner is expensive and time consuming. To greatly reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Yang Yu , Zixu Zhao , Yueming Jin , Guangyong Chen , Qi Dou , Pheng-Ann Heng

The application of deep learning to medical image segmentation has been hampered due to the lack of abundant pixel-level annotated data. Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) is a promising strategy for breaking the deadlock. However, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xiaoang Shen , Guokai Zhang , Huilin Lai , Jihao Luo , Jianwei Lu , Ye Luo

High-quality pixel-level annotations of medical images are essential for supervised segmentation tasks, but obtaining such annotations is costly and requires medical expertise. To address this challenge, we propose a novel coarse-to-fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Anghong Du , Nay Aung , Theodoros N. Arvanitis , Stefan K. Piechnik , Joao A C Lima , Steffen E. Petersen , Le Zhang

Self-training has greatly facilitated domain adaptive semantic segmentation, which iteratively generates pseudo labels on unlabeled target data and retrains the network. However, realistic segmentation datasets are highly imbalanced, pseudo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Binhui Xie , Longhui Yuan , Shuang Li , Chi Harold Liu , Xinjing Cheng

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have had unprecedented success in medical imaging and, in particular, in medical image segmentation. However, despite the fact that segmentation results are closer than ever to the inter-expert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Nathan Painchaud , Youssef Skandarani , Thierry Judge , Olivier Bernard , Alain Lalande , Pierre-Marc Jodoin

Current semantic segmentation methods focus only on mining "local" context, i.e., dependencies between pixels within individual images, by context-aggregation modules (e.g., dilated convolution, neural attention) or structure-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Wenguan Wang , Tianfei Zhou , Fisher Yu , Jifeng Dai , Ender Konukoglu , Luc Van Gool

This work presents a novel deep learning framework for segmenting cerebral vasculature in hyperspectral brain images. We address the critical challenge of severe label scarcity, which impedes conventional supervised training. Our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tim Mach , Daniel Rueckert , Alex Berger , Laurin Lux , Ivan Ezhov

Partially supervised segmentation is a label-saving method based on datasets with fractional classes labeled and intersectant. However, it is still far from landing on real-world medical applications due to privacy concerns and data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Le Jiang , Li Yan Ma , Tie Yong Zeng , Shi Hui Ying

Recent work on curvilinear structure segmentation has mostly focused on backbone network design and loss engineering. The challenge of collecting labelled data, an expensive and labor intensive process, has been overlooked. While labelled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Xun Xu , Manh Cuong Nguyen , Yasin Yazici , Kangkang Lu , Hlaing Min , Chuan-Sheng Foo

Brain tumor segmentation is important for diagnosis of the tumor, and current deep-learning methods rely on a large set of annotated images for training, with high annotation costs. Unsupervised segmentation is promising to avoid human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Xiaochuan Ma , Jia Fu , Wenjun Liao , Shichuan Zhang , Guotai Wang