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Diffusion models have shown impressive performance for image generation, often times outperforming other generative models. Since their introduction, researchers have extended the powerful noise-to-image denoising pipeline to discriminative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Fahim Ahmed Zaman , Mathews Jacob , Amanda Chang , Kan Liu , Milan Sonka , Xiaodong Wu

In recent times, denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have proven effective for medical image generation and denoising, and as representation learners for downstream segmentation. However, segmentation performance is limited by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Venkata Siddharth Dhara , Pawan Kumar

Medical image segmentation is inherently uncertain. For a given image, there may be multiple plausible segmentation hypotheses, and physicians will often disagree on lesion and organ boundaries. To be suited to real-world application,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 João Lourenço Silva , Arlindo L. Oliveira

The ability to quickly annotate medical imaging data plays a critical role in training deep learning frameworks for segmentation. Doing so for image volumes or video sequences is even more pressing as annotating these is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Laurent Lejeune , Raphael Sznitman

Machine learning has been widely adopted for medical image analysis in recent years given its promising performance in image segmentation and classification tasks. The success of machine learning, in particular supervised learning, depends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Chengliang Dai , Shuo Wang , Yuanhan Mo , Elsa Angelini , Yike Guo , Wenjia Bai

Multi-atlas segmentation is a widely used tool in medical image analysis, providing robust and accurate results by learning from annotated atlas datasets. However, the availability of fully annotated atlas images for training is limited due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Lisa M. Koch , Martin Rajchl , Wenjia Bai , Christian F. Baumgartner , Tong Tong , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach , Paul Aljabar , Daniel Rueckert

We introduce Mediffusion -- a new method for semi-supervised learning with explainable classification based on a joint diffusion model. The medical imaging domain faces unique challenges due to scarce data labelling -- insufficient for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Joanna Kaleta , Paweł Skierś , Jan Dubiński , Przemysław Korzeniowski , Kamil Deja

Understanding the morphological structure of medical images and precisely segmenting the region of interest or abnormality is an important task that can assist in diagnosis. However, the unique properties of medical imaging make clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Sungmin Kang , Jaeha Song , Jihie Kim

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in many image-guided clinical approaches. However, existing segmentation algorithms mostly rely on the availability of fully annotated images with pixel-wise annotations for training, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yuyan Shi , Jialu Ma , Jin Yang , Shasha Wang , Yichi Zhang

Based on the Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM), medical image segmentation can be described as a conditional image generation task, which allows to compute pixel-wise uncertainty maps of the segmentation and allows an implicit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Xutao Guo , Yanwu Yang , Chenfei Ye , Shang Lu , Yang Xiang , Ting Ma

Medical image segmentation is crucial for many healthcare tasks, including disease diagnosis and treatment planning. One key area is the segmentation of skin lesions, which is vital for diagnosing skin cancer and monitoring patients. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Salah Eddine Bekhouche , Gaby Maroun , Fadi Dornaika , Abdenour Hadid

Obtaining large-scale medical data, annotated or unannotated, is challenging due to stringent privacy regulations and data protection policies. In addition, annotating medical images requires that domain experts manually delineate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Tushar Kataria , Shireen Y. Elhabian

Image annotation aims to annotate a given image with a variable number of class labels corresponding to diverse visual concepts. In this paper, we address two main issues in large-scale image annotation: 1) how to learn a rich feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Yulei Niu , Zhiwu Lu , Ji-Rong Wen , Tao Xiang , Shih-Fu Chang

Deep learning-based object detectors have achieved impressive performance in microscopy imaging, yet their confidence estimates often lack calibration, limiting their reliability for biomedical applications. In this work, we introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Francesco Campi , Lucrezia Tondo , Ekin Karabati , Johannes Betge , Marie Piraud

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

Accurate segmentation of orbital bones in facial computed tomography (CT) images is essential for the creation of customized implants for reconstruction of defected orbital bones, particularly challenging due to the ambiguous boundaries and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Jinseo An , Min Jin Lee , Kyu Won Shim , Helen Hong

Automated cell segmentation in microscopy images is essential for biomedical research, yet conventional methods are labor-intensive and prone to error. While deep learning-based approaches have proven effective, they often require large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Rüveyda Yilmaz , Kaan Keven , Yuli Wu , Johannes Stegmaier

Recent years have seen increasing use of supervised learning methods for segmentation tasks. However, the predictive performance of these algorithms depends on the quality of labels. This problem is particularly pertinent in the medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Le Zhang , Ryutaro Tanno , Mou-Cheng Xu , Chen Jin , Joseph Jacob , Olga Ciccarelli , Frederik Barkhof , Daniel C. Alexander

Medical image segmentation annotations suffer from inter- and intra-observer variations even among experts due to intrinsic differences in human annotators and ambiguous boundaries. Leveraging a collection of annotators' opinions for an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Zahra Mirikharaji , Kumar Abhishek , Saeed Izadi , Ghassan Hamarneh

Limited data is a common problem in remote sensing due to the high cost of obtaining annotated samples. In the few-shot segmentation task, models are typically trained on base classes with abundant annotations and later adapted to novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-07 Steve Andreas Immanuel , Woojin Cho , Junhyuk Heo , Darongsae Kwon