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Semi-supervised learning has gained considerable popularity in medical image segmentation tasks due to its capability to reduce reliance on expert-examined annotations. Several mean-teacher (MT) based semi-supervised methods utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Kaiwen Huang , Tao Zhou , Huazhu Fu , Yizhe Zhang , Yi Zhou , Xiao-Jun Wu

Semi-supervised learning has made significant strides in the medical domain since it alleviates the heavy burden of collecting abundant pixel-wise annotated data for semantic segmentation tasks. Existing semi-supervised approaches enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Xu Zheng , Chong Fu , Haoyu Xie , Jialei Chen , Xingwei Wang , Chiu-Wing Sham

In semantic segmentation, the creation of pixel-level labels for training data incurs significant costs. To address this problem, semi-supervised learning, which utilizes a small number of labeled images alongside unlabeled images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Takahiro Mano , Reiji Saito , Kazuhiro Hotta

One of the challenges in developing deep learning algorithms for medical image segmentation is the scarcity of annotated training data. To overcome this limitation, data augmentation and semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-02 Bram Ruijsink , Esther Puyol-Anton , Ye Li , Wenja Bai , Eric Kerfoot , Reza Razavi , Andrew P. King

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

Accurate medical image segmentation is often hindered by noisy labels in training data, due to the challenges of annotating medical images. Prior research works addressing noisy labels tend to make class-dependent assumptions, overlooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Erjian Guo , Zicheng Wang , Zhen Zhao , Luping Zhou

Recently proposed techniques for semi-supervised learning such as Temporal Ensembling and Mean Teacher have achieved state-of-the-art results in many important classification benchmarks. In this work, we expand the Mean Teacher approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Christian S. Perone , Julien Cohen-Adad

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

Versatile medical image segmentation (VMIS) targets the segmentation of multiple classes, while obtaining full annotations for all classes is often impractical due to the time and labor required. Leveraging partially labeled datasets (PLDs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Shengqian Zhu , Jiafei Wu , Xiaogang Xu , Chengrong Yu , Ying Song , Zhang Yi , Guangjun Li , Junjie Hu

Studies on semi-supervised medical image segmentation (SSMIS) have seen fast progress recently. Due to the limited labelled data, SSMIS methods mainly focus on effectively leveraging unlabeled data to enhance the segmentation performance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Zhen Zhao , Ye Liu , Meng Zhao , Di Yin , Yixuan Yuan , Luping Zhou

Medical image segmentation has made significant progress when a large amount of labeled data are available. However, annotating medical image segmentation datasets is expensive due to the requirement of professional skills. Additionally,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Tao Wang , Zhongzheng Huang , Jiawei Wu , Yuanzheng Cai , Zuoyong Li

Deep co-training has recently been proposed as an effective approach for image segmentation when annotated data is scarce. In this paper, we improve existing approaches for semi-supervised segmentation with a self-paced and self-consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Ping Wang , Jizong Peng , Marco Pedersoli , Yuanfeng Zhou , Caiming Zhang , Christian Desrosiers

The limited availability of annotated data in medical imaging makes semi-supervised learning increasingly appealing for its ability to learn from imperfect supervision. Recently, teacher-student frameworks have gained popularity for their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Hoang-Thien Nguyen , Vi Vu , Ba-Thinh Lam , Phat Huynh , Tianyang Wang , Xingjian Li , Ulas Bagci , Min Xu

The existing barely-supervised medical image segmentation (BSS) methods, adopting a registration-segmentation paradigm, aim to learn from data with very few annotations to mitigate the extreme label scarcity problem. However, this paradigm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Junming Su , Zhiqiang Shen , Peng Cao , Jinzhu Yang , Osmar R. Zaiane

The volume-wise labeling of 3D medical images is expertise-demanded and time-consuming; hence semi-supervised learning (SSL) is highly desirable for training with limited labeled data. Imbalanced class distribution is a severe problem that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Haonan Wang , Xiaomeng Li

Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) has achieved great success in overcoming the difficulties of labeling and making full use of unlabeled data. However, SSL has a limited assumption that the numbers of samples in different classes are balanced,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Minsung Hyun , Jisoo Jeong , Nojun Kwak

Semi-supervised segmentation remains challenging in medical imaging since the amount of annotated medical data is often scarce and there are many blurred pixels near the adhesive edges or in the low-contrast regions. To address the issues,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Yicheng Wu , Zhonghua Wu , Qianyi Wu , Zongyuan Ge , Jianfei Cai

Medical image segmentation has significantly benefitted thanks to deep learning architectures. Furthermore, semi-supervised learning (SSL) has recently been a growing trend for improving a model's overall performance by leveraging abundant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 S. M. Kamrul Hasan , Cristian A. Linte

Pre-training a recognition model with contrastive learning on a large dataset of unlabeled data has shown great potential to boost the performance of a downstream task, e.g., image classification. However, in domains such as medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jizong Peng , Ping Wang , Chrisitian Desrosiers , Marco Pedersoli

Deep learning has shown remarkable success in medical image analysis, but its reliance on large volumes of high-quality labeled data limits its applicability. While noisy labeled data are easier to obtain, directly incorporating them into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chengxuan Qian , Kai Han , Jianxia Ding , Chongwen Lyu , Zhenlong Yuan , Jun Chen , Zhe Liu