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In this work, we propose a simple yet effective semi-supervised learning approach called Augmented Distribution Alignment. We reveal that an essential sampling bias exists in semi-supervised learning due to the limited number of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Qin Wang , Wen Li , Luc Van Gool

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental and critical step in many clinical approaches. Semi-supervised learning has been widely applied to medical image segmentation tasks since it alleviates the heavy burden of acquiring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-29 Yichi Zhang , Rushi Jiao , Qingcheng Liao , Dongyang Li , Jicong Zhang

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 attracted great attention in the field of machine learning, especially for medical image segmentation tasks, since it alleviates the heavy burden of collecting abundant densely annotated data for training.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Yicheng Wu , Minfeng Xu , Zongyuan Ge , Jianfei Cai , Lei Zhang

Medical semi-supervised segmentation is a technique where a model is trained to segment objects of interest in medical images with limited annotated data. Existing semi-supervised segmentation methods are usually based on the smoothness…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Thanh Nguyen-Duc , Trung Le , Roland Bammer , He Zhao , Jianfei Cai , Dinh Phung

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

Medical image segmentation typically necessitates a large and precisely annotated dataset. However, obtaining pixel-wise annotation is a labor-intensive task that requires significant effort from domain experts, making it challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Heng Cai , Lei Qi , Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Witnessing the success of deep learning neural networks in natural image processing, an increasing number of studies have been proposed to develop deep-learning-based frameworks for medical image segmentation. However, since the pixel-wise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Yuexiang Li , Jiawei Chen , Xinpeng Xie , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng

Recent trends in semi-supervised learning have significantly boosted the performance of 3D semi-supervised medical image segmentation. Compared with 2D images, 3D medical volumes involve information from different directions, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Heng Cai , Shumeng Li , Lei Qi , Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

The application of deep learning to medical image segmentation has been hampered due to the lack of abundant pixel-level annotated data. Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) is a promising strategy for breaking the deadlock. However, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xiaoang Shen , Guokai Zhang , Huilin Lai , Jihao Luo , Jianwei Lu , Ye Luo

Current 3D semi-supervised segmentation methods face significant challenges such as limited consideration of contextual information and the inability to generate reliable pseudo-labels for effective unsupervised data use. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Yury Velichko , Ulas Bagci , Dorit Merhof

Medical image classification is a challenging task due to the scarcity of labeled samples and class imbalance caused by the high variance in disease prevalence. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods can mitigate these challenges by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Md Junaid Mahmood , Pranaw Raj , Divyansh Agarwal , Suruchi Kumari , Pravendra Singh

We tackle biomedical image segmentation in the scenario of only a few labeled brain MR images. This is an important and challenging task in medical applications, where manual annotations are time-consuming. Current multi-atlas based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Hyeon Woo Lee , Mert R. Sabuncu , Adrian V. Dalca

The recent prevalence of deep neural networks has lead semantic segmentation networks to achieve human-level performance in the medical field when sufficient training data is provided. Such networks however fail to generalize when tasked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Serban Stan , Mohammad Rostami

Deep learning methodologies have been employed in several different fields, with an outstanding success in image recognition applications, such as material quality control, medical imaging, autonomous driving, etc. Deep learning models rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Saul Calderon-Ramirez , Shengxiang Yang , David Elizondo

Generalising deep models to new data from new centres (termed here domains) remains a challenge. This is largely attributed to shifts in data statistics (domain shifts) between source and unseen domains. Recently, gradient-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Xiao Liu , Spyridon Thermos , Alison O'Neil , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Semi-supervised domain generalization (SSDG) in medical image segmentation offers a promising solution for generalizing to unseen domains during testing, addressing domain shift challenges and minimizing annotation costs. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jincai Song , Haipeng Chen , Jun Qin , Na Zhao

Both limited annotation and domain shift are significant challenges frequently encountered in medical image segmentation, leading to derivative scenarios like semi-supervised medical (SSMIS), semi-supervised medical domain generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Wei Li , Pengcheng Zhou , Linye Ma , Wenyi Zhao , Huihua Yang , Yuchen Guo

Large-scale vision models like SAM have extensive visual knowledge, yet their general nature and computational demands limit their use in specialized tasks like medical image segmentation. In contrast, task-specific models such as U-Net++…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Yuchen Mao , Hongwei Li , Yinyi Lai , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Peng Qi , Yunjie Yang , Chengjia Wang

Semi-supervised learning has proven highly effective in tackling the challenge of limited labeled training data in medical image segmentation. In general, current approaches, which rely on intra-image pixel-wise consistency training via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Han Wu , Chong Wang , Zhiming Cui