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The success of deep learning methods in medical image segmentation tasks heavily depends on a large amount of labeled data to supervise the training. On the other hand, the annotation of biomedical images requires domain knowledge and can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Xinrong Hu , Dewen Zeng , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi

Text segmentation is a challenging vision task with many downstream applications. Current text segmentation methods require pixel-level annotations, which are expensive in the cost of human labor and limited in application scenarios. In…

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Weakly supervised segmentation methods can delineate thyroid nodules in ultrasound images efficiently using training data with coarse labels, but suffer from: 1) low-confidence pseudo-labels that follow topological priors, introducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jianning Chi , Zelan Li , Geng Lin , MingYang Sun , Xiaosheng Yu

Nodule segmentation from breast ultrasound images is challenging yet essential for the diagnosis. Weakly-supervised segmentation (WSS) can help reduce time-consuming and cumbersome manual annotation. Unlike existing weakly-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yuhao Huang , Xin Yang , Yuxin Zou , Chaoyu Chen , Jian Wang , Haoran Dou , Nishant Ravikumar , Alejandro F Frangi , Jianqiao Zhou , Dong Ni

Weakly supervised segmentation is an important problem in medical image analysis due to the high cost of pixelwise annotation. Prior methods, while often focusing on weak labels of 2D images, exploit few structural cues of volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Qian He , Shuailin Li , Xuming He

Histopathology image analysis plays a critical role in cancer diagnosis and treatment. To automatically segment the cancerous regions, fully supervised segmentation algorithms require labor-intensive and time-consuming labeling at the pixel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-29 Gang Xu , Zhigang Song , Zhuo Sun , Calvin Ku , Zhe Yang , Cancheng Liu , Shuhao Wang , Jianpeng Ma , Wei Xu

Due to the lack of expertise for medical image annotation, the investigation of label-efficient methodology for medical image segmentation becomes a heated topic. Recent progresses focus on the efficient utilization of weak annotations…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Junwen Pan , Qi Bi , Yanzhan Yang , Pengfei Zhu , Cheng Bian

Accurately segmenting a variety of clinically significant lesions from whole body computed tomography (CT) scans is a critical task on precision oncology imaging, denoted as universal lesion segmentation (ULS). Manual annotation is the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Youbao Tang , Jinzheng Cai , Ke Yan , Lingyun Huang , Guotong Xie , Jing Xiao , Jingjing Lu , Gigin Lin , Le Lu

Medical experts often manually segment images to obtain diagnostic statistics and discard the resulting annotations. We aim to train segmentation models to alleviate this burden, but constrained to the retained summary statistics (e.g., the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Omkar Kulkarni , Edward Raff , Tim Oates

Most of the current state-of-the-art methods for tumor segmentation are based on machine learning models trained on manually segmented images. This type of training data is particularly costly, as manual delineation of tumors is not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Pawel Mlynarski , Hervé Delingette , Antonio Criminisi , Nicholas Ayache

Automatic skin lesion segmentation on dermoscopic images is an essential component in computer-aided diagnosis of melanoma. Recently, many fully supervised deep learning based methods have been proposed for automatic skin lesion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Xiaomeng Li , Lequan Yu , Hao Chen , Chi-Wing Fu , Pheng-Ann Heng

The vast majority of semantic segmentation approaches rely on pixel-level annotations that are tedious and time consuming to obtain and suffer from significant inter and intra-expert variability. To address these issues, recent approaches…

The segmentation and automatic identification of histological regions of diagnostic interest offer a valuable aid to pathologists. However, segmentation methods are hampered by the difficulty of obtaining pixel-level annotations, which are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-02 Pushpak Pati , Guillaume Jaume , Zeineb Ayadi , Kevin Thandiackal , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Maria Gabrani , Orcun Goksel

Pixel-wise segmentation is one of the most data and annotation hungry tasks in our field. Providing representative and accurate annotations is often mission-critical especially for challenging medical applications. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Simon Reiß , Constantin Seibold , Alexander Freytag , Erik Rodner , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Automatically measuring lesion/tumor size with RECIST (Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors) diameters and segmentation is important for computer-aided diagnosis. Although it has been studied in recent years, there is still space to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Youbao Tang , Ning Zhang , Yirui Wang , Shenghua He , Mei Han , Jing Xiao , Ruei-Sung Lin

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging task as it only takes image-level information as supervision for training but produces pixel-level predictions for testing. To address such a challenging task, most recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Bingfeng Zhang , Jimin Xiao , Yunchao Wei , Mingjie Sun , Kaizhu Huang

We present a novel approach to train pixel resolution segmentation models on whole slide images in a weakly supervised setup. The model is trained to classify patches extracted from slides. This leads the training to be made under noisy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-19 Nicolas Pinchaud

Cell classification and counting in immunohistochemical cytoplasm staining images play a pivotal role in cancer diagnosis. Weakly supervised learning is a potential method to deal with labor-intensive labeling. However, the inconstant cell…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Shichuan Zhang , Chenglu Zhu , Honglin Li , Jiatong Cai , Lin Yang

Human body part segmentation refers to the task of predicting the semantic segmentation mask for each body part. Fully supervised body part segmentation methods achieve good performances but require an enormous amount of effort to annotate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Zhengyuan Yang , Yuncheng Li , Linjie Yang , Ning Zhang , Jiebo Luo

This work addresses the task of completely weakly supervised class-incremental learning for semantic segmentation to learn segmentation for both base and additional novel classes using only image-level labels. While class-incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 David Minkwan Kim , Soeun Lee , Byeongkeun Kang