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Lesion segmentation on computed tomography (CT) scans is an important step for precisely monitoring changes in lesion/tumor growth. This task, however, is very challenging since manual segmentation is prohibitively time-consuming,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Vatsal Agarwal , Youbao Tang , Jing Xiao , Ronald M. Summers

We propose a method for high-performance semantic image segmentation (or semantic pixel labelling) based on very deep residual networks, which achieves the state-of-the-art performance. A few design factors are carefully considered to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Zifeng Wu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Semantic image segmentation is one of the most important tasks in medical image analysis. Most state-of-the-art deep learning methods require a large number of accurately annotated examples for model training. However, accurate annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Ning Zhang , Susan Francis , Rayaz Malik , Xin Chen

In recent years, Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has been widely applied to Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) tasks due to its powerful cross-modal semantic understanding capabilities. This paper proposes a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xiuli Bi , Die Xiao , Junchao Fan , Bin Xiao

Deep learning-based image registration methods have shown state-of-the-art performance and rapid inference speeds. Despite these advances, many existing approaches fall short in capturing spatially varying information in non-local regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Xinxing Cheng , Tianyang Zhang , Wenqi Lu , Qingjie Meng , Alejandro F. Frangi , Jinming Duan

Modern medical image segmentation methods primarily use discrete representations in the form of rasterized masks to learn features and generate predictions. Although effective, this paradigm is spatially inflexible, scales poorly to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yejia Zhang , Pengfei Gu , Nishchal Sapkota , Danny Z. Chen

Current methods for medical image segmentation primarily focus on extracting contextual feature information from the perspective of the whole image. While these methods have shown effective performance, none of them take into account the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Jianjian Yin , Yi Chen , Chengyu Li , Zhichao Zheng , Yanhui Gu , Junsheng Zhou

Skin lesions segmentation is an important step in the process of automated diagnosis of the skin melanoma. However, the accuracy of segmenting melanomas skin lesions is quite a challenging task due to less data for training, irregular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Sabari Nathan , Priya Kansal

Nowadays, vision-based computing tasks play an important role in various real-world applications. However, many vision computing tasks, e.g. semantic segmentation, are usually computationally expensive, posing a challenge to the computing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Shijie Hao , Yuan Zhou , Yanrong Guo , Richang Hong , Jun Cheng , Meng Wang

The prevalence of skin melanoma is rapidly increasing as well as the recorded death cases of its patients. Automatic image segmentation tools play an important role in providing standardized computer-assisted analysis for skin melanoma…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Ahmed H. Shahin , Karim Amer , Mustafa A. Elattar

Consistency learning plays a crucial role in semi-supervised medical image segmentation as it enables the effective utilization of limited annotated data while leveraging the abundance of unannotated data. The effectiveness and efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Zhenxi Zhang , Ran Ran , Chunna Tian , Heng Zhou , Xin Li , Fan Yang , Zhicheng Jiao

Segmentation of white matter lesions and deep grey matter structures is an important task in the quantification of magnetic resonance imaging in multiple sclerosis. In this paper we explore segmentation solutions based on convolutional…

The anatomical location of imaging features is of crucial importance for accurate diagnosis in many medical tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have had huge successes in computer vision, but they lack the natural ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Mohsen Ghafoorian , Nico Karssemeijer , Tom Heskes , Inge van Uden , Clara Sanchez , Geert Litjens , Frank-Erik de Leeuw , Bram van Ginneken , Elena Marchiori , Bram Platel

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has attracted considerable attention in medical image processing. The latest SSL methods use a combination of consistency regularization and pseudo-labeling to achieve remarkable success. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Qiangguo Jin , Hui Cui , Junbo Wang , Changming Sun , Yimiao He , Ping Xuan , Linlin Wang , Cong Cong , Leyi Wei , Ran Su

Image segmentation techniques are predominately based on parameter-laden optimization. The objective function typically involves weights for balancing competing image fidelity and segmentation regularization cost terms. Setting these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-06-24 Josna Rao , Ghassan Hamarneh , Rafeef Abugharbieh

Purpose: Accurate identification of hepatocystic anatomy is critical to preventing surgical complications during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Deep learning models often struggle with occlusions, long-range dependencies, and capturing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Yihan Li , Nikhil Churamani , Maria Robu , Imanol Luengo , Danail Stoyanov

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental task for medical image analysis and surgical planning. In recent years, UNet-based networks have prevailed in the field of medical image segmentation. However, convolution-neural networks (CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xin You , Junjun He , Jie Yang , Yun Gu

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods, which can leverage a large amount of unlabeled data for improved performance, has attracted increasing attention recently. In this paper, we introduce a novel Context-aware Conditional Cross Pseudo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Peng Liu , Guoyan Zheng

Objective: Non-rigid image registration with high accuracy and efficiency is still a challenging task for medical image analysis. In this work, we present the spatially region-weighted correlation ratio (SRWCR) as a novel similarity measure…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-17 Lun Gong , Cheng Zhang , Luwen Duan , Xueying Du , Hanqiu Liu , Xinjian Chen , Jian Zheng

In this paper, we provide an in-depth study of Stochastic Backpropagation (SBP) when training deep neural networks for standard image classification and object detection tasks. During backward propagation, SBP calculates the gradients by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Jun Fang , Mingze Xu , Hao Chen , Bing Shuai , Zhuowen Tu , Joseph Tighe