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Instance segmentation methods often require costly per-pixel labels. We propose a method that only requires point-level annotations. During training, the model only has access to a single pixel label per object, yet the task is to output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Issam H. Laradji , Negar Rostamzadeh , Pedro O. Pinheiro , David Vazquez , Mark Schmidt

The ability to understand visual information from limited labeled data is an important aspect of machine learning. While image-level classification has been extensively studied in a semi-supervised setting, dense pixel-level classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Sudhanshu Mittal , Maxim Tatarchenko , Thomas Brox

The usage of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for unsupervised image segmentation was investigated in this study. In the proposed approach, label prediction and network parameter learning are alternately iterated to meet the following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Wonjik Kim , Asako Kanezaki , Masayuki Tanaka

Fully supervised deep neural networks for segmentation usually require a massive amount of pixel-level labels which are manually expensive to create. In this work, we develop a multi-task learning method to relax this constraint. We regard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Rihuan Ke , Aurélie Bugeau , Nicolas Papadakis , Mark Kirkland , Peter Schuetz , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Lesion segmentation on nasal endoscopic images is challenging due to its complex lesion features. Fully-supervised deep learning methods achieve promising performance with pixel-level annotations but impose a significant annotation burden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Pengyu Jie , Wanquan Liu , Chenqiang Gao , Yihui Wen , Rui He , Weiping Wen , Pengcheng Li , Jintao Zhang , Deyu Meng

The need for labour intensive pixel-wise annotation is a major limitation of many fully supervised learning methods for segmenting bioimages that can contain numerous object instances with thin separations. In this paper, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Rihuan Ke , Aurélie Bugeau , Nicolas Papadakis , Peter Schuetz , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental and critical step in many image-guided clinical approaches. Recent success of deep learning-based segmentation methods usually relies on a large amount of labeled data, which is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Rushi Jiao , Yichi Zhang , Le Ding , Rong Cai , Jicong Zhang

Semi-supervised learning, which leverages both annotated and unannotated data, is an efficient approach for medical image segmentation, where obtaining annotations for the whole dataset is time-consuming and costly. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Ruizhe Li , Grazziela Figueredo , Dorothee Auer , Rob Dineen , Paul Morgan , Xin Chen

Weakly supervised nuclei segmentation is a critical problem for pathological image analysis and greatly benefits the community due to the significant reduction of labeling cost. Adopting point annotations, previous methods mostly rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Weizhen Liu , Qian He , Xuming He

As research interests in medical image analysis become increasingly fine-grained, the cost for extensive annotation also rises. One feasible way to reduce the cost is to annotate with coarse-grained superclass labels while using limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Linrui Dai , Wenhui Lei , Xiaofan Zhang

Most medical image lesion segmentation methods rely on hand-crafted accurate annotations of the original image for supervised learning. Recently, a series of weakly supervised or unsupervised methods have been proposed to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Jiawei Chen , Dingkang Yang , Yuxuan Lei , Lihua Zhang

Weak supervision learning on classification labels has demonstrated high performance in various tasks, while a few pixel-level fine annotations are also affordable. Naturally a question comes to us that whether the combination of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jiahui Li , Wen Chen , Xiaodi Huang , Zhiqiang Hu , Qi Duan , Hongsheng Li , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Shaoting Zhang

Deep convolutional neural networks have driven substantial advancements in the automatic understanding of images. Requiring a large collection of images and their associated annotations is one of the main bottlenecks limiting the adoption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Zahra Mirikharaji , Yiqi Yan , Ghassan Hamarneh

Despite the superior performance of Deep Learning (DL) on numerous segmentation tasks, the DL-based approaches are notoriously overconfident about their prediction with highly polarized label probability. This is often not desirable for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Sungmin Hong , Anna K. Bonkhoff , Andrew Hoopes , Martin Bretzner , Markus D. Schirmer , Anne-Katrin Giese , Adrian V. Dalca , Polina Golland , Natalia S. Rost

Multi-atlas segmentation is a widely used tool in medical image analysis, providing robust and accurate results by learning from annotated atlas datasets. However, the availability of fully annotated atlas images for training is limited due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Lisa M. Koch , Martin Rajchl , Wenjia Bai , Christian F. Baumgartner , Tong Tong , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach , Paul Aljabar , Daniel Rueckert

Deep learning based image segmentation has achieved the state-of-the-art performance in many medical applications such as lesion quantification, organ detection, etc. However, most of the methods rely on supervised learning, which require a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Ruizhe Li , Dorothee Auer , Christian Wagner , Xin Chen

Despite that deep learning has achieved state-of-the-art performance for medical image segmentation, its success relies on a large set of manually annotated images for training that are expensive to acquire. In this paper, we propose an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Lu Wang , Dong Guo , Guotai Wang , Shaoting Zhang

Object segmentation is an important step in the workflow of computational pathology. Deep learning based models generally require large amount of labeled data for precise and reliable prediction. However, collecting labeled data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Navid Alemi Koohbanani , Mostafa Jahanifar , Neda Zamani Tajadin , Nasir Rajpoot

Deep learning techniques for 3D brain vessel image segmentation have not been as successful as in the segmentation of other organs and tissues. This can be explained by two factors. First, deep learning techniques tend to show poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Vien Ngoc Dang , Francesco Galati , Rosa Cortese , Giuseppe Di Giacomo , Viola Marconetto , Prateek Mathur , Karim Lekadir , Marco Lorenzi , Ferran Prados , Maria A. Zuluaga

Deep learning-based nuclei segmentation and classification in pathology images typically rely on large-scale pixel-level manual annotations, which are costly and difficult to obtain across diverse tissues and staining conditions. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Kazuya Nishimura , Ryoma Bise , Haruka Hirose , Yasuhiro Kojima