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Weakly supervised segmentation methods can delineate thyroid nodules in ultrasound images efficiently using training data with coarse labels, but suffer from: 1) low-confidence pseudo-labels that follow topological priors, introducing…

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Segmentation of regions of interest (ROIs) for identifying abnormalities is a leading problem in medical imaging. Using machine learning for this problem generally requires manually annotated ground-truth segmentations, demanding extensive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Jay J. Yoo , Khashayar Namdar , Matthias W. Wagner , Liana Nobre , Uri Tabori , Cynthia Hawkins , Birgit B. Ertl-Wagner , Farzad Khalvati

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men worldwide and the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. One of the prognostic features in prostate cancer is the Gleason grading of histopathology images. The Gleason…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Mohammad Mahdi Behzadi , Mohammad Madani , Hanzhang Wang , Jun Bai , Ankit Bhardwaj , Anna Tarakanova , Harold Yamase , Ga Hie Nam , Sheida Nabavi

Ultrasound imaging plays a critical role in the early detection of breast cancer. Accurate identification and segmentation of lesions are essential steps in clinical practice, requiring methods to assist physicians in lesion segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Xin Yue , Xiaoling Liu , Qing Zhao , Jianqiang Li , Changwei Song , Suqin Liu , Zhikai Yang , Guanghui Fu

Automated segmentation of cancer on medical images can aid targeted diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. However, its adoption is limited by the high cost of expert annotations required for training and inter-observer variability in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-26 Lynn Karam , Yipei Wang , Veeru Kasivisvanathan , Mirabela Rusu , Yipeng Hu , Shaheer U. Saeed

Nuclei segmentation is a fundamental task that is critical for various computational pathology applications including nuclei morphology analysis, cell type classification, and cancer grading. Conventional vision-based methods for nuclei…

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Medical image segmentation assists in computer-aided diagnosis, surgeries, and treatment. Digitize tissue slide images are used to analyze and segment glands, nuclei, and other biomarkers which are further used in computer-aided medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Saad Wazir , Muhammad Moazam Fraz

Analysis of histopathology slides is a critical step for many diagnoses, and in particular in oncology where it defines the gold standard. In the case of digital histopathological analysis, highly trained pathologists must review vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Pierre Courtiol , Eric W. Tramel , Marc Sanselme , Gilles Wainrib

This paper presents a new regularization method to train a fully convolutional network for semantic tissue segmentation in histopathological images. This method relies on the benefit of unsupervised learning, in the form of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 C. T. Sari , C. Sokmensuer , C. Gunduz-Demir

Fully supervised segmentation methods require a large training cohort of already segmented images, providing information at the pixel level of each image. We present a method to automatically segment and model pathologies in medical images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Simon Andermatt , Antal Horváth , Simon Pezold , Philippe Cattin

Polyp segmentation is a crucial step towards computer-aided diagnosis of colorectal cancer. However, most of the polyp segmentation methods require pixel-wise annotated datasets. Annotated datasets are tedious and time-consuming to produce,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Guangyu Ren , Michalis Lazarou , Jing Yuan , Tania Stathaki

Training a Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) for semantic segmentation requires a large number of masks with pixel level labelling, which involves a large amount of human labour and time for annotation. In contrast, web images and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Tong Shen , Guosheng Lin , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid

We present our novel deep multi-task learning method for medical image segmentation. Existing multi-task methods demand ground truth annotations for both the primary and auxiliary tasks. Contrary to it, we propose to generate the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Binod Bhattarai , Ronast Subedi , Rebati Raman Gaire , Eduard Vazquez , Danail Stoyanov

Accurate nuclei segmentation in histopathological images is crucial for cancer diagnosis. Automating this process offers valuable support to clinical experts, as manual annotation is time-consuming and prone to human errors. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Ayush Roy , Payel Pramanik , Dmitrii Kaplun , Sergei Antonov , Ram Sarkar

Tumor segmentation in histopathology images is often complicated by its composition of different histological subtypes and class imbalance. Oversampling subtypes with low prevalence features is not a satisfactory solution since it…

Breast cancer classification remains a challenging task due to inter-class ambiguity and intra-class variability. Existing deep learning-based methods try to confront this challenge by utilizing complex nonlinear projections. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Xiao Kang , Xingbo Liu , Xiushan Nie , Xiaoming Xi , Yilong Yin

Prostate cancer is one of the main diseases affecting men worldwide. The Gleason scoring system is the primary diagnostic tool for prostate cancer. This is obtained via the visual analysis of cancerous patterns in prostate biopsies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-24 Julio Silva-Rodríguez , Adrián Colomer , Valery Naranjo

Semantic segmentation under domain shift remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision, particularly when labelled training data is scarce. This challenge is particularly exemplified in histopathology image analysis, where the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Zeeshan Nisar , Friedrich Feuerhake , Thomas Lampert

Image segmentation, the process of partitioning an image into meaningful regions, plays a pivotal role in computer vision and medical imaging applications. Unsupervised segmentation, particularly in the absence of labeled data, remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Kovvuri Sai Gopal Reddy , Bodduluri Saran , A. Mudit Adityaja , Saurabh J. Shigwan , Nitin Kumar

Cancer grade is a critical clinical criterion that can be used to determine the degree of cancer malignancy. Revealing the condition of the glands, a precise gland segmentation can assist in a more effective cancer grade classification. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Yijie Zhu , Shan E Ahmed Raza