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Dichotomous Image Segmentation (DIS) tasks require highly precise annotations, and traditional dataset creation methods are labor intensive, costly, and require extensive domain expertise. Although using synthetic data for DIS is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Haotian Qian , YD Chen , Shengtao Lou , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Xiaogang Jin , Deng-Ping Fan

We propose a straightforward yet highly effective few-shot fine-tuning strategy for adapting the Segment Anything (SAM) to anatomical segmentation tasks in medical images. Our novel approach revolves around reformulating the mask decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Weiyi Xie , Nathalie Willems , Shubham Patil , Yang Li , Mayank Kumar

Data augmentation can effectively resolve a scarcity of images when training machine-learning algorithms. It can make them more robust to unseen images. We present a lesion conditional Generative Adversarial Network LcGAN to generate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Manohar Karki , Junghwan Cho , Seokhwan Ko

Chest X-ray is one of the most widespread examinations of the human body. In interventional radiology, its use is frequently associated with the need to visualize various tube-like objects, such as puncture needles, guiding sheaths, wires,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Ilyas Sirazitdinov , Heinrich Schulz , Axel Saalbach , Steffen Renisch , Dmitry V. Dylov

The skull segmentation from CT scans can be seen as an already solved problem. However, in MR this task has a significantly greater complexity due to the presence of soft tissues rather than bones. Capturing the bone structures from MR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Kamil Kwarciak , Mateusz Daniol , Daria Hemmerling , Marek Wodzinski

Statistical Shape Models (SSMs) excel at identifying population level anatomical variations, which is at the core of various clinical and biomedical applications, including morphology-based diagnostics and surgical planning. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Asma Khan , Tushar Kataria , Janmesh Ukey , Shireen Y. Elhabian

Automatic surgical instrument segmentation of endoscopic images is a crucial building block of many computer-assistance applications for minimally invasive surgery. So far, state-of-the-art approaches completely rely on the availability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Luca Sestini , Benoit Rosa , Elena De Momi , Giancarlo Ferrigno , Nicolas Padoy

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) offers immense potential in the field of medical image analysis, enabling accurate object segmentation with limited training data. However, existing FSS techniques heavily rely on annotated semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Dorit Merhof

The high cost of creating pixel-by-pixel gold-standard labels, limited expert availability, and presence of diverse tasks make it challenging to generate segmentation labels to train deep learning models for medical imaging tasks. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Tanvi Deshpande , Eva Prakash , Elsie Gyang Ross , Curtis Langlotz , Andrew Ng , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu

Deep convolutional neural networks have shown outstanding performance in medical image segmentation tasks. The usual problem when training supervised deep learning methods is the lack of labeled data which is time-consuming and costly to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Suman Sedai , Bhavna Antony , Ravneet Rai , Katie Jones , Hiroshi Ishikawa , Joel Schuman , Wollstein Gadi , Rahil Garnavi

Unsupervised semantic segmentation (USS) aims to achieve high-quality segmentation without manual pixel-level annotations. Existing USS models provide coarse category classification for regions, but the results often have blurry and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Tingting Li , Gensheng Pei , Xinhao Cai , Huafeng Liu , Qiong Wang , Yazhou Yao

Image segmentation methods are usually trained with pixel-level annotations, which require significant human effort to collect. The most common solution to address this constraint is to implement weakly-supervised pipelines trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Miriam Bellver , Amaia Salvador , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Machine learning models for medical images can help physicians diagnose and manage diseases. However, due to the fact that medical image annotation requires a great deal of manpower and expertise, as well as the fact that clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Can Li , Sheng Shao , Junyi Qu , Shuchao Pang , Mehmet A. Orgun

In this paper we propose a mask-conditional synthetic image generation model for creating synthetic satellite imagery datasets. Given a dataset of real high-resolution images and accompanying land cover masks, we show that it is possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Van Anh Le , Varshini Reddy , Zixi Chen , Mengyuan Li , Xinran Tang , Anthony Ortiz , Simone Fobi Nsutezo , Caleb Robinson

Medical Image Segmentation is a useful application for medical image analysis including detecting diseases and abnormalities in imaging modalities such as MRI, CT etc. Deep learning has proven to be promising for this task but usually has a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Soham Bhosale , Arjun Krishna , Ge Wang , Klaus Mueller

The integrated positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MRI) scanner facilitates the simultaneous acquisition of metabolic information via PET and morphological information with high soft-tissue contrast using MRI.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Hidetoshi Matsuo , Mizuho Nishio , Munenobu Nogami , Feibi Zeng , Takako Kurimoto , Sandeep Kaushik , Florian Wiesinger , Atsushi K Kono , Takamichi Murakami

Despite deep convolutional neural networks achieved impressive progress in medical image computing and analysis, its paradigm of supervised learning demands a large number of annotations for training to avoid overfitting and achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Liyan Sun , Chenxin Li , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang , Guisheng Wang , Yizhou Yu

Despite the rapid advancement of unsupervised learning in visual representation, it requires training on large-scale datasets that demand costly data collection, and pose additional challenges due to concerns regarding data privacy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 David Junhao Zhang , Mutian Xu , Chuhui Xue , Wenqing Zhang , Xiaoguang Han , Song Bai , Mike Zheng Shou

The limited availability of labeled data has driven advancements in semi-supervised learning for medical image segmentation. Modern large-scale models tailored for general segmentation, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Kaiwen Huang , Tao Zhou , Huazhu Fu , Yizhe Zhang , Yi Zhou , Chen Gong , Dong Liang

The scarcity of annotated data in specialized domains such as medical imaging presents significant challenges to training robust vision models. While self-supervised masked image modeling (MIM) offers a promising solution, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ruilang Wang , Shuotong Xu , Bowen Liu , Runlin Huang , Donglong Chen , Weifeng Su