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Multi-task learning is central to many real-world applications. Unfortunately, obtaining labelled data for all tasks is time-consuming, challenging, and expensive. Active Learning (AL) can be used to reduce this burden. Existing techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Nikita Durasov , Nik Dorndorf , Pascal Fua

Deep learning models benefit from training with a large dataset (labeled or unlabeled). Following this motivation, we present an approach to learn a deep learning model for the automatic segmentation of Organs at Risk (OARs) in cervical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-22 Monika Grewal , Dustin van Weersel , Henrike Westerveld , Peter A. N. Bosman , Tanja Alderliesten

Active learning is considered a viable solution to alleviate the contradiction between the high dependency of deep learning-based segmentation methods on annotated data and the expensive pixel-level annotation cost of medical images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jun Shi , Shulan Ruan , Ziqi Zhu , Minfan Zhao , Hong An , Xudong Xue , Bing Yan

Semantic segmentation neural networks require pixel-level annotations in large quantities to achieve a good performance. In the medical domain, such annotations are expensive, because they are time-consuming and require expert knowledge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Grzegorz Chlebus , Andrea Schenk , Horst K. Hahn , Bram van Ginneken , Hans Meine

We propose a novel Deep Active Learning (DeepAL) model-3D Wasserstein Discriminative UNet (WD-UNet) for reducing the annotation effort of medical 3D Computed Tomography (CT) segmentation. The proposed WD-UNet learns in a semi-supervised way…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Shiyi Wang , Yang Nan , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang

Active Learning (AL) aims to reduce annotation costs by strategically selecting the most informative samples for labeling. However, most active learning methods struggle in the low-budget regime where only a few labeled examples are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Netta Shafir , Guy Hacohen , Daphna Weinshall

Accurate annotation of medical image is the crucial step for image AI clinical application. However, annotating medical image will incur a great deal of annotation effort and expense due to its high complexity and needing experienced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Yang Deng , Yao Sun , Yongpei Zhu , Yue Xu , Qianxi Yang , Shuo Zhang , Mingwang Zhu , Jirang Sun , Weiling Zhao , Xiaobo Zhou , Kehong Yuan

Deep learning-based diagnostic models often suffer performance drops due to distribution shifts between training (source) and test (target) domains. Collecting and labeling sufficient target domain data for model retraining represents an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Yaofei Duan , Yuhao Huang , Xin Yang , Luyi Han , Xinyu Xie , Zhiyuan Zhu , Ping He , Ka-Hou Chan , Ligang Cui , Sio-Kei Im , Dong Ni , Tao Tan

Segmentation of tumors in brain MRI images is a challenging task, where most recent methods demand large volumes of data with pixel-level annotations, which are generally costly to obtain. In contrast, image-level annotations, where only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-07 Sergey Pavlov , Alexey Artemov , Maksim Sharaev , Alexander Bernstein , Evgeny Burnaev

3D object detection has recently received much attention due to its great potential in autonomous vehicle (AV). The success of deep learning based object detectors relies on the availability of large-scale annotated datasets, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jinpeng Lin , Zhihao Liang , Shengheng Deng , Lile Cai , Tao Jiang , Tianrui Li , Kui Jia , Xun Xu

Active learning (AL) is a machine learning (ML) approach that strategically selects the most informative samples for annotation during training, aiming to minimize annotation costs. This strategy not only reduces labeling expenses but also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Cédric Jung , Shirin Salehi , Anke Schmeink

Label scarcity has been a long-standing issue for biomedical image segmentation, due to high annotation costs and professional requirements. Recently, active learning (AL) strategies strive to reduce annotation costs by querying a small…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Ziyuan Zhao , Wenjing Lu , Zeng Zeng , Kaixin Xu , Bharadwaj Veeravalli , Cuntai Guan

For many applications in the field of computer assisted surgery, such as providing the position of a tumor, specifying the most probable tool required next by the surgeon or determining the remaining duration of surgery, methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Sebastian Bodenstedt , Dominik Rivoir , Alexander Jenke , Martin Wagner , Michael Breucha , Beat Müller-Stich , Sören Torge Mees , Jürgen Weitz , Stefanie Speidel

Cell image segmentation is usually implemented using fully supervised deep learning methods, which heavily rely on extensive annotated training data. Yet, due to the complexity of cell morphology and the requirement for specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Yu Zhu , Qiang Yang , Li Xu

Active learning (AL) is a training paradigm for selecting unlabeled samples for annotation to improve model performance on a test set, which is useful when only a limited number of samples can be annotated. These algorithms often work by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Lorenzo Jaime Yu Flores , Cesare Spinoso di-Piano , Ori Ernst , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Active learning (AL) aims to enable training high performance classifiers with low annotation cost by predicting which subset of unlabelled instances would be most beneficial to label. The importance of AL has motivated extensive research,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Kunkun Pang , Mingzhi Dong , Yang Wu , Timothy Hospedales

Many recent delineation techniques owe much of their increased effectiveness to path classification algorithms that make it possible to distinguish promising paths from others. The downside of this development is that they require annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Agata Mosinska , Raphael Sznitman , Przemysław Głowacki , Pascal Fua

In the era of data-driven intelligence, the paradox of data abundance and annotation scarcity has emerged as a critical bottleneck in the advancement of machine learning. This paper gives a detailed overview of Active Learning (AL), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Chiung-Yi Tseng , Junhao Song , Ziqian Bi , Tianyang Wang , Chia Xin Liang , Xinyuan Song , Ming Liu

Partly due to the use of exhaustive-annotated data, deep networks have achieved impressive performance on medical image segmentation. Medical imaging data paired with noisy annotation are, however, ubiquitous, but little is known about the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-16 Shaode Yu , Erlei Zhang , Junjie Wu , Hang Yu , Zi Yang , Lin Ma , Mingli Chen , Xuejun Gu , Weiguo Lu

Central to active learning (AL) is what data should be selected for annotation. Existing works attempt to select highly uncertain or informative data for annotation. Nevertheless, it remains unclear how selected data impacts the test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Tianyang Wang , Xingjian Li , Pengkun Yang , Guosheng Hu , Xiangrui Zeng , Siyu Huang , Cheng-Zhong Xu , Min Xu