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Deep co-training has recently been proposed as an effective approach for image segmentation when annotated data is scarce. In this paper, we improve existing approaches for semi-supervised segmentation with a self-paced and self-consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Ping Wang , Jizong Peng , Marco Pedersoli , Yuanfeng Zhou , Caiming Zhang , Christian Desrosiers

Surgical instrument segmentation is recognised as a key enabler in providing advanced surgical assistance and improving computer-assisted interventions. In this work, we propose SegMatch, a semi-supervised learning method to reduce the need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Meng Wei , Charlie Budd , Luis C. Garcia-Peraza-Herrera , Reuben Dorent , Miaojing Shi , Tom Vercauteren

Training deep neural networks usually requires a large amount of labeled data to obtain good performance. However, in medical image analysis, obtaining high-quality labels for the data is laborious and expensive, as accurately annotating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Quande Liu , Lequan Yu , Luyang Luo , Qi Dou , Pheng Ann Heng

Medical referring image segmentation (MRIS) requires pixel-level masks aligned with textual descriptions of anatomical locations, making annotation costly in low-label regimes. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) can mitigate this burden by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yuchen Li , Zhen Zhao , Yi Liu , Luping Zhou

Semi-supervised learning has been employed to alleviate the need for extensive labeled data for histopathology image segmentation, but existing methods struggle with noisy pseudo-labels due to ambiguous gland boundaries and morphological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Nguyen Lan Vi Vu , Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Thien Nguyen , Daisuke Kihara , Tianyang Wang , Xingjian Li , Min Xu

Medical image segmentation has made significant progress when a large amount of labeled data are available. However, annotating medical image segmentation datasets is expensive due to the requirement of professional skills. Additionally,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Tao Wang , Zhongzheng Huang , Jiawei Wu , Yuanzheng Cai , Zuoyong Li

While supervised learning has achieved remarkable success, obtaining large-scale labeled datasets in biomedical imaging is often impractical due to high costs and the time-consuming annotations required from radiologists. Semi-supervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-19 Yuanbin Chen , Tao Wang , Hui Tang , Longxuan Zhao , Ruige Zong , Shun Chen , Tao Tan , Xinlin Zhang , Tong Tong

In this paper, we propose a novel mutual consistency network (MC-Net+) to effectively exploit the unlabeled data for semi-supervised medical image segmentation. The MC-Net+ model is motivated by the observation that deep models trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Yicheng Wu , Zongyuan Ge , Donghao Zhang , Minfeng Xu , Lei Zhang , Yong Xia , Jianfei Cai

Small sample instance segmentation is a very challenging task, and many existing methods follow the training strategy of meta-learning which pre-train models on support set and fine-tune on query set. The pre-training phase, which is highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ruting Chi , Zhiyi Huang , Yuexing Han

Recently, machine learning-based semantic segmentation algorithms have demonstrated their potential to accurately segment regions and contours in medical images, allowing the precise location of anatomical structures and abnormalities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yifei Wang , Chuhong Zhu

Deep learning has demonstrated significant improvements in medical image segmentation using a sufficiently large amount of training data with manual labels. Acquiring well-representative labels requires expert knowledge and exhaustive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Jinxi Xiang , Zhuowei Li , Wenji Wang , Qing Xia , Shaoting Zhang

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have achieved remarkable successes in learning expressive yet compact signal representations. However, they are not naturally amenable to predictive tasks such as segmentation, where they must learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kushal Vyas , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Guha Balakrishnan

Reducing the amount of labels required to train convolutional neural networks without performance degradation is key to effectively reduce human annotation efforts. We propose Reliable Label Bootstrapping (ReLaB), an unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Paul Albert , Diego Ortego , Eric Arazo , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

Obtaining pixel-level annotations in the medical domain is both expensive and time-consuming, often requiring close collaboration between clinical experts and developers. Semi-supervised medical image segmentation aims to leverage limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Lin Xi , Yingliang Ma , Cheng Wang , Sandra Howell , Aldo Rinaldi , Kawal S. Rhode

Semi-supervised learning (SSL), which aims at leveraging a few labeled images and a large number of unlabeled images for network training, is beneficial for relieving the burden of data annotation in medical image segmentation. According to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Xinkai Zhao , Chaowei Fang , De-Jun Fan , Xutao Lin , Feng Gao , Guanbin Li

This paper studies semi-supervised learning of semantic segmentation, which assumes that only a small portion of training images are labeled and the others remain unlabeled. The unlabeled images are usually assigned pseudo labels to be used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Donghyeon Kwon , Suha Kwak

Existing semi-supervised medical segmentation co-learning frameworks have realized that model performance can be diminished by the biases in model recognition caused by low-quality pseudo-labels. Due to the averaging nature of their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Yuanpeng He , Yali Bi , Lijian Li , Chi-Man Pun , Wenpin Jiao , Zhi Jin

Medical image segmentation is clinically important, yet data privacy and the cost of expert annotation limit the availability of labeled data. Federated semi-supervised learning (FSSL) offers a solution but faces two challenges:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Sahar Nasirihaghighi , Negin Ghamsarian , Yiping Li , Marcel Breeuwer , Raphael Sznitman , Klaus Schoeffmann

Supervised machine learning provides state-of-the-art solutions to a wide range of computer vision problems. However, the need for copious labelled training data limits the capabilities of these algorithms in scenarios where such input is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 András Kalapos , Bálint Gyires-Tóth

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