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Medical data often exhibits long-tail distributions with heavy class imbalance, which naturally leads to difficulty in classifying the minority classes (i.e., boundary regions or rare objects). Recent work has significantly improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Chenyu You , Weicheng Dai , Yifei Min , Lawrence Staib , Jasjeet S. Sekhon , James S. Duncan

Unsupervised representation learning with contrastive learning achieved great success. This line of methods duplicate each training batch to construct contrastive pairs, making each training batch and its augmented version forwarded…

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Contrastive learning and self-supervised techniques have gained prevalence in computer vision for the past few years. It is essential for medical image analysis, which is often notorious for its lack of annotations. Most existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Jun Li , Quan Quan , S. Kevin Zhou

The vast majority of real world classification problems are imbalanced, meaning there are far fewer data from the class of interest (the positive class) than from other classes. We propose two machine learning algorithms to handle highly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-10 Siong Thye Goh , Cynthia Rudin

Methods based on supervised learning using annotations in an end-to-end fashion have been the state-of-the-art for classification problems. However, they may be limited in their generalization capability, especially in the low data regime.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Ilyass Moummad , Nicolas Farrugia

Previous deep learning approaches for survival analysis have primarily relied on ranking losses to improve discrimination performance, which often comes at the expense of calibration performance. To address such an issue, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Dongjoon Lee , Hyeryn Park , Changhee Lee

Counterfactual medical image generation effectively addresses data scarcity and enhances the interpretability of medical images. However, due to the complex and diverse pathological features of medical images and the imbalanced class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Weizhi Nie , Zichun Zhang , Weijie Wang , Bruno Lepri , Anan Liu , Nicu Sebe

Contrastive learning (CL) is a predominant technique in image classification, but they showed limited performance with an imbalanced dataset. Recently, several supervised CL methods have been proposed to promote an ideal regular simplex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Sumin Roh , Harim Kim , Ho Yun Lee , Il Yong Chun

Medical image analysis using supervised deep learning methods remains problematic because of the reliance of deep learning methods on large amounts of labelled training data. Although medical imaging data repositories continue to expand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Euijoon Ahn , Ashnil Kumar , Dagan Feng , Michael Fulham , Jinman Kim

Long-tailed instance segmentation is a challenging task due to the extreme imbalance of training samples among classes. It causes severe biases of the head classes (with majority samples) against the tailed ones. This renders "how to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Yin-Yin He , Peizhen Zhang , Xiu-Shen Wei , Xiangyu Zhang , Jian Sun

The lack of large labeled medical imaging datasets, along with significant inter-individual variability compared to clinically established disease classes, poses significant challenges in exploiting medical imaging information in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Matteo Ferrante , Tommaso Boccato , Simeon Spasov , Andrea Duggento , Nicola Toschi

Contrastive learning, which aims at minimizing the distance between positive pairs while maximizing that of negative ones, has been widely and successfully applied in unsupervised feature learning, where the design of positive and negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Rui Zhu , Bingchen Zhao , Jingen Liu , Zhenglong Sun , Chang Wen Chen

Contrastive learning is among the most successful methods for visual representation learning, and its performance can be further improved by jointly performing clustering on the learned representations. However, existing methods for joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Shunjie-Fabian Zheng , JaeEun Nam , Emilio Dorigatti , Bernd Bischl , Shekoofeh Azizi , Mina Rezaei

Medical vision-language pretraining (VLP) models have recently been investigated for their generalization to diverse downstream tasks. However, current medical VLP methods typically force the model to learn simple and complex concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Chenran Zhang , Ruiqi Wu , Tao Zhou , Yi Zhou

Multimodal deep learning holds promise for improving clinical prediction by integrating diverse patient data, including text, imaging, time-series, and structured demographics. Contrastive learning facilitates this integration by producing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Michal Golovanevsky , Pranav Mahableshwarkar , Carsten Eickhoff , Ritambhara Singh

The long-tailed distribution datasets poses great challenges for deep learning based classification models on how to handle the class imbalance problem. Existing solutions usually involve class-balacing strategies or transfer learing from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Gongzhe Li , Zhiwen Tan , Linpeng Pan

Deep neural networks perform poorly on heavily class-imbalanced datasets. Given the promising performance of contrastive learning, we propose Rebalanced Siamese Contrastive Mining (ResCom) to tackle imbalanced recognition. Based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Zhisheng Zhong , Jiequan Cui , Zeming Li , Eric Lo , Jian Sun , Jiaya Jia

Since annotating medical images for segmentation tasks commonly incurs expensive costs, it is highly desirable to design an annotation-efficient method to alleviate the annotation burden. Recently, contrastive learning has exhibited a great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yixuan Wu , Jintai Chen , Jiahuan Yan , Yiheng Zhu , Danny Z. Chen , Jian Wu

We propose a framework using contrastive learning as a pre-training task to perform image classification in the presence of noisy labels. Recent strategies such as pseudo-labeling, sample selection with Gaussian Mixture models, weighted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Madalina Ciortan , Romain Dupuis , Thomas Peel

Several automatic approaches for objective music performance assessment (MPA) have been proposed in the past, however, existing systems are not yet capable of reliably predicting ratings with the same accuracy as professional judges. This…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Pavan Seshadri , Alexander Lerch