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Synthesized medical images have several important applications, e.g., as an intermedium in cross-modality image registration and as supplementary training samples to boost the generalization capability of a classifier. Especially,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Zizhao Zhang , Lin Yang , Yefeng Zheng

Semantic segmentation of high-resolution remote sensing imagery (HRSI) suffers from the domain shift, resulting in poor performance of the model in another unseen domain. Unsupervised domain adaptive (UDA) semantic segmentation aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Jingru Zhu , Ya Guo , Geng Sun , Liang Hong , Jie Chen

Recently, unsupervised image-to-image translation methods based on contrastive learning have achieved state-of-the-art results in many tasks. However, in the previous works, the negatives are sampled from the input image itself, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Chen Zhao , Wei-Ling Cai , Zheng Yuan , Cheng-Wei Hu

To address the limitations of Transformer decoders in capturing edge details, recognizing local textures and modeling spatial continuity, this paper proposes a novel decoder framework specifically designed for medical image segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Fan Zhang , Zhiwei Gu , Hua Wang

Unsupervised cross-modality medical image adaptation aims to alleviate the severe domain gap between different imaging modalities without using the target domain label. A key in this campaign relies upon aligning the distributions of source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Zixian Su , Kai Yao , Xi Yang , Qiufeng Wang , Yuyao Yan , Jie Sun , Kaizhu Huang

Medical image segmentation has been widely recognized as a pivot procedure for clinical diagnosis, analysis, and treatment planning. However, the laborious and expensive annotation process lags down the speed of further advances.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Zhuowei Li , Zihao Liu , Zhiqiang Hu , Qing Xia , Ruiqin Xiong , Shaoting Zhang , Dimitris Metaxas , Tingting Jiang

To bridge the gap between the source and target domains in unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA), the most common strategy puts focus on matching the marginal distributions in the feature space through adversarial learning. However, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Zhizhe Liu , Zhenfeng Zhu , Shuai Zheng , Yang Liu , Jiayu Zhou , Yao Zhao

Counterfactual image generation is a powerful tool for augmenting training data, de-biasing datasets, and modeling disease. Current approaches rely on external classifiers or regressors to increase the effectiveness of subject-level…

Image harmonization task aims at harmonizing different composite foreground regions according to specific background image. Previous methods would rather focus on improving the reconstruction ability of the generator by some internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Jingtang Liang , Chi-Man Pun

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods have shown their promising performance in the cross-modality medical image segmentation tasks. These typical methods usually utilize a translation network to transform images from the source…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Xiaoting Han , Lei Qi , Qian Yu , Ziqi Zhou , Yefeng Zheng , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

This work considers supervised contrastive learning for semantic segmentation. We apply contrastive learning to enhance the discriminative power of the multi-scale features extracted by semantic segmentation networks. Our key methodological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Theodoros Pissas , Claudio S. Ravasio , Lyndon Da Cruz , Christos Bergeles

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer knowledge learned from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. Contrastive learning (CL) in the context of UDA can help to better separate classes in feature space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Mingxuan Gu , Sulaiman Vesal , Mareike Thies , Zhaoya Pan , Fabian Wagner , Mirabela Rusu , Andreas Maier , Ronak Kosti

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

Accurate automatic medical image segmentation relies on high-quality, dense annotations, which are costly and time-consuming. Weakly supervised learning provides a more efficient alternative by leveraging sparse and coarse annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Dongdong Meng , Sheng Li , Hao Wu , Suqing Tian , Wenjun Ma , Guoping Wang , Xueqing Yan

Accurate liver segmentation from contrast-enhanced MRI is essential for diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. However, it remains challenging due to limited annotated data, heterogeneous enhancement protocols, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Jincan Lou , Jingkun Chen , Haoquan Li , Hang Li , Wenjian Huang , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang , Jianguo Zhang

Image-to-image translation is a fundamental task in computer vision. It transforms images from one domain to images in another domain so that they have particular domain-specific characteristics. Most prior works train a generative model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Sihan Xu , Zelong Jiang , Ruisi Liu , Kaikai Yang , Zhijie Huang

Accurate medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in overall diagnosis and is one of the most essential tasks in the diagnostic pipeline. CNN-based models, despite their extensive use, suffer from a local receptive field and fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Zulkaif Sajjad , Furqan Shaukat , Junaid Mir

Recently, deep neural networks have demonstrated comparable and even better performance with board-certified ophthalmologists in well-annotated datasets. However, the diversity of retinal imaging devices poses a significant challenge:…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-18 Peng Liu , Bin Kong , Zhongyu Li , Shaoting Zhang , Ruogu Fang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods using class labels often rely on class activation maps (CAMs) to localize objects. However, traditional CAM-based methods struggle with partial activations and imprecise object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Dewen Zeng , Xinrong Hu , Yu-Jen Chen , Yawen Wu , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi

To realize the full potential of deep learning for medical imaging, large annotated datasets are required for training. Such datasets are difficult to acquire because labeled medical images are not usually available due to privacy issues,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Faisal Mahmood , Richard Chen , Nicholas J. Durr