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Contrastive learning (CL) has become a powerful approach for learning representations from unlabeled images. However, existing CL methods focus predominantly on visual appearance features while neglecting topological characteristics (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Guangyu Meng , Pengfei Gu , Peixian Liang , John P. Lalor , Erin Wolf Chambers , Danny Z. Chen

This paper explores training medical vision-language models (VLMs) -- where the visual and language inputs are embedded into a common space -- with a particular focus on scenarios where training data is limited, as is often the case in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Rhydian Windsor , Amir Jamaludin , Timor Kadir , Andrew Zisserman

Visualizing disease-induced scarring and fibrosis in the heart on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging with contrast enhancement (LGE) is paramount in characterizing disease progression and quantifying pathophysiological substrates of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Haley G. Abramson , Dan M. Popescu , Rebecca Yu , Changxin Lai , Julie K. Shade , Katherine C. Wu , Mauro Maggioni , Natalia A. Trayanova

Recent advances in text-conditioned image generation diffusion models have begun paving the way for new opportunities in modern medical domain, in particular, generating Chest X-rays (CXRs) from diagnostic reports. Nonetheless, to further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Woojung Han , Chanyoung Kim , Dayun Ju , Yumin Shim , Seong Jae Hwang

In this work, we present Multi-Level Contrastive Learning for Dense Prediction Task (MCL), an efficient self-supervised method for learning region-level feature representation for dense prediction tasks. Our method is motivated by the three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Qiushan Guo , Yizhou Yu , Yi Jiang , Jiannan Wu , Zehuan Yuan , Ping Luo

Microscopy image analysis is fundamental for different applications, from diagnosis to synthetic engineering and environmental monitoring. Modern acquisition systems have granted the possibility to acquire an escalating amount of images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Jacopo Dapueto , Vito Paolo Pastore , Nicoletta Noceti , Francesca Odone

Although self-supervised learning enables us to bootstrap the training by exploiting unlabeled data, the generic self-supervised methods for natural images do not sufficiently incorporate the context. For medical images, a desirable method…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Li Sun , Ke Yu , Kayhan Batmanghelich

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) presents unprecedented opportunities to revolutionize medical contrastive vision-language pre-training. In this paper, we show how LLMs can facilitate large-scale supervised pre-training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yingtai Li , Haoran Lai , Xiaoqian Zhou , Shuai Ming , Wenxin Ma , Wei Wei , Shaohua Kevin Zhou

The recent progress of computing, machine learning, and especially deep learning, for image recognition brings a meaningful effect for automatic detection of various diseases from chest X-ray images (CXRs). Here efficiency of lung…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Yu. Gordienko , Peng Gang , Jiang Hui , Wei Zeng , Yu. Kochura , O. Alienin , O. Rokovyi , S. Stirenko

This paper proposes a novel logo image recognition approach incorporating a localization technique based on reinforcement learning. Logo recognition is an image classification task identifying a brand in an image. As the size and position…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Masato Fujitake

In this paper, we examine the strength of deep learning technique for diagnosing lung cancer on medical image analysis problem. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) models become popular among the pattern recognition and computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Mehdi Fatan Serj , Bahram Lavi , Gabriela Hoff , Domenec Puig Valls

The ability to predict lung and heart based diseases using deep learning techniques is central to many researchers, particularly in the medical field around the world. In this paper, we present a unique outlook of a very familiar problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Sairamvinay Vijayaraghavan , David Haddad , Shikun Huang , Seongwoo Choi

Modern machine learning pipelines, in particular those based on deep learning (DL) models, require large amounts of labeled data. For classification problems, the most common learning paradigm consists of presenting labeled examples during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Jacopo Teneggi , Paul H. Yi , Jeremias Sulam

Building accurate Deep Learning (DL) models for brain age prediction is a very relevant topic in neuroimaging, as it could help better understand neurodegenerative disorders and find new biomarkers. To estimate accurate and generalizable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Carlo Alberto Barbano , Benoit Dufumier , Edouard Duchesnay , Marco Grangetto , Pietro Gori

Weakly-supervised learning (WSL) has recently triggered substantial interest as it mitigates the lack of pixel-wise annotations. Given global image labels, WSL methods yield pixel-level predictions (segmentations), which enable to interpret…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Soufiane Belharbi , Jérôme Rony , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

Several multi-modality representation learning approaches such as LXMERT and ViLBERT have been proposed recently. Such approaches can achieve superior performance due to the high-level semantic information captured during large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Lei Shi , Kai Shuang , Shijie Geng , Peng Su , Zhengkai Jiang , Peng Gao , Zuohui Fu , Gerard de Melo , Sen Su

Self-supervised learning has been widely used to obtain transferrable representations from unlabeled images. Especially, recent contrastive learning methods have shown impressive performances on downstream image classification tasks. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Byungseok Roh , Wuhyun Shin , Ildoo Kim , Sungwoong Kim

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown success in various general image processing tasks, yet their application in medical imaging is nascent, lacking tailored models. This study investigates the potential of MLLMs in improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Ling Yang , Zhanyu Wang , Zhenghao Chen , Xinyu Liang , Luping Zhou

Deep neural network-based medical image classifications often use "hard" labels for training, where the probability of the correct category is 1 and those of others are 0. However, these hard targets can drive the networks over-confident…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Dong Wei , Shilei Cao , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng

Artificial intelligence (AI) shows great potential in assisting radiologists to improve the efficiency and accuracy of medical image interpretation and diagnosis. However, a versatile AI model requires large-scale data and comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Zhongyi Shui , Jianpeng Zhang , Weiwei Cao , Sinuo Wang , Ruizhe Guo , Le Lu , Lin Yang , Xianghua Ye , Tingbo Liang , Qi Zhang , Ling Zhang