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Despite excellent progress has been made, the performance of deep learning based algorithms still heavily rely on specific datasets, which are difficult to extend due to labor-intensive labeling. Moreover, because of the advancement of new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Zhen Wei , Bingkun Liu , Weinong Wang , Yu-Wing Tai

Transformer-based foundation models (FMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in medical image segmentation. However, scaling these models is challenging due to the limited size of medical image datasets within isolated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Yumin Zhang , Yan Gao , Haoran Duan , Hanqing Guo , Tejal Shah , Rajiv Ranjan , Bo Wei

Medical image segmentation has witnessed significant advancements with the emergence of deep learning. However, the reliance of most neural network models on a substantial amount of annotated data remains a challenge for medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Xiaoxiao Wu , Xiaowei Chen , Zhenguo Gao , Shulei Qu , Yuanyuan Qiu

Foundation models have revolutionized artificial intelligence by providing robust, versatile architectures pre-trained on large-scale datasets. However, adapting these massive models to specific downstream tasks requires fine-tuning, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Jieming Bian , Yuanzhe Peng , Lei Wang , Yin Huang , Jie Xu

The task of Few-shot Learning (FSL) aims to do the inference on novel categories containing only few labeled examples, with the help of knowledge learned from base categories containing abundant labeled training samples. While there are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Chengming Xu , Siqian Yang , Yabiao Wang , Zhanxiong Wang , Yanwei Fu , Xiangyang Xue

Visual Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) has become a powerful alternative for full fine-tuning so as to adapt pre-trained vision models to downstream tasks, which only tunes a small number of parameters while freezing the vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Haoyu He , Jianfei Cai , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Bohan Zhuang

Despite the tremendous success of deep neural networks in medical image segmentation, they typically require a large amount of costly, expert-level annotated data. Few-shot segmentation approaches address this issue by learning to transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Qinji Yu , Kang Dang , Nima Tajbakhsh , Demetri Terzopoulos , Xiaowei Ding

Recent successes suggest that parameter-efficient fine-tuning of foundation models as the state-of-the-art method for transfer learning in vision, replacing the rich literature of alternatives such as meta-learning. In trying to harness the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Shengzhuang Chen , Jihoon Tack , Yunqiao Yang , Yee Whye Teh , Jonathan Richard Schwarz , Ying Wei

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has become a common method for fine-tuning large language models, where a base model can serve multiple users through PEFT module switching. To enhance user experience, base models require periodic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Naibin Gu , Peng Fu , Xiyu Liu , Ke Ma , Zheng Lin , Weiping Wang

The rise of deep learning has marked significant progress in fields such as computer vision, natural language processing, and medical imaging, primarily through the adaptation of pre-trained models for specific tasks. Traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Charith Chandra Sai Balne , Sreyoshi Bhaduri , Tamoghna Roy , Vinija Jain , Aman Chadha

Few-shot learning allows machines to classify novel classes using only a few labeled samples. Recently, few-shot segmentation aiming at semantic segmentation on low sample data has also seen great interest. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Jun Seo , Young-Hyun Park , Sung Whan Yoon , Jaekyun Moon

The increase of available large clinical and experimental datasets has contributed to a substantial amount of important contributions in the area of biomedical image analysis. Image segmentation, which is crucial for any quantitative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Debesh Jha , Michael A. Riegler , Håvard D. Johansen , Dag Johansen , Jens Rittscher , Pål Halvorsen , Sharib Ali

Foundation models have become a promising paradigm for advancing medical image analysis, particularly for segmentation tasks where downstream applications often emerge sequentially. Existing fine-tuning strategies, however, remain limited:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yiwen Ye , Yicheng Wu , Xiangde Luo , He Zhang , Ziyang Chen , Ting Dang , Yanning Zhang , Yong Xia

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

Deep neural networks enable highly accurate image segmentation, but require large amounts of manually annotated data for supervised training. Few-shot learning aims to address this shortcoming by learning a new class from a few annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Abhijit Guha Roy , Shayan Siddiqui , Sebastian Pölsterl , Nassir Navab , Christian Wachinger

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) of powerful pre-trained models for complex downstream tasks has proven effective in vision and language processing, yet this paradigm remains unexplored in scientific machine learning, where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Hangwei Zhang , Chun Kang , Yan Wang , Difan Zou

In contemporary deep learning, a prevalent and effective workflow for solving low-data problems is adapting powerful pre-trained foundation models (FMs) to new tasks via parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT). However, while empirically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Fady Rezk , Royson Lee , Henry Gouk , Timothy Hospedales , Minyoung Kim

In few-shot classification tasks (so-called episodes), a small set of labeled support samples is provided during inference to aid the classification of unlabeled query samples. Metric-based models typically operate by computing similarities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xuanyu Zhuang , Geoffroy Peeters , Gaël Richard

Foundation models (FMs) promise to generalize medical imaging, but their effectiveness varies. It remains unclear how pre-training domain (medical vs. general), paradigm (e.g., text-guided), and architecture influence embedding quality,…

The rapid development of Vision Foundation Models (VFMs), particularly Vision Transformers (ViT) and Segment Anything Model (SAM), has sparked significant advances in the field of medical image analysis. These models have demonstrated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-24 Pengchen Liang , Bin Pu , Haishan Huang , Yiwei Li , Hualiang Wang , Weibo Ma , Qing Chang