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Training neural networks using limited annotations is an important problem in the medical domain. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) typically require large, annotated datasets to achieve acceptable performance which, in the medical domain, are…

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Image segmentation is a fundamental task in the field of imaging and vision. Supervised deep learning for segmentation has achieved unparalleled success when sufficient training data with annotated labels are available. However, annotation…

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This paper presents a semi-supervised learning framework for a customized semantic segmentation task using multiview image streams. A key challenge of the customized task lies in the limited accessibility of the labeled data due to the…

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Current state-of-the-art (SOTA) 3D object detection methods often require a large amount of 3D bounding box annotations for training. However, collecting such large-scale densely-supervised datasets is notoriously costly. To reduce the…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across various image segmentation tasks. However, the process of preparing datasets for training segmentation DNNs is both labor-intensive and costly, as it typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Yixin Zhang , Shen Zhao , Hanxue Gu , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Background: Deep learning has presented great potential in accurate MR image segmentation when enough labeled data are provided for network optimization. However, manually annotating 3D MR images is tedious and time-consuming, requiring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Yousuf Babiker M. Osman , Cheng Li , Weijian Huang , Shanshan Wang

Deep learning has shown remarkable progress in medical image semantic segmentation, yet its success heavily depends on large-scale expert annotations and consistent data distributions. In practice, annotations are scarce, and images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Ba-Thinh Lam , Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Hoang-Thien Nguyen , Quang-Khai Bui-Tran , Nguyen Lan Vi Vu , Phat K. Huynh , Ulas Bagci , Min Xu

Segmentation is one of the most important tasks in the medical imaging pipeline as it influences a number of image-based decisions. To be effective, fully supervised segmentation approaches require large amounts of manually annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Tyler Ward , Aaron Moseley , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

Producing densely annotated data is a difficult and tedious task for medical imaging applications. To address this problem, we propose a novel approach to generate supervision for semi-supervised semantic segmentation. We argue that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-10 Constantin Seibold , Simon Reiß , Jens Kleesiek , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Semi-supervised learning addresses the issue of limited annotations in medical images effectively, but its performance is often inadequate for complex backgrounds and challenging tasks. Multi-modal fusion methods can significantly improve…

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In this paper, we propose a new approach to applying point-level annotations for weakly-supervised panoptic segmentation. Instead of the dense pixel-level labels used by fully supervised methods, point-level labels only provide a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Junsong Fan , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Tieniu Tan

Scribble-based weakly supervised semantic segmentation leverages only a few annotated pixels as labels to train a segmentation model, presenting significant potential for reducing the human labor involved in the annotation process. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xinliang Zhang , Lei Zhu , Shuang Zeng , Hangzhou He , Ourui Fu , Zhengjian Yao , Zhaoheng Xie , Yanye Lu

Imperfect labels limit the quality of predictions learned by deep neural networks. This is particularly relevant in medical image segmentation, where reference annotations are difficult to collect and vary significantly even across expert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Eugene Vorontsov , Samuel Kadoury

Teeth segmentation is an essential task in dental image analysis for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. While supervised deep learning methods can be utilized for teeth segmentation, they often require extensive manual annotation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Tomáš Kunzo , Viktor Kocur , Lukáš Gajdošech , Martin Madaras

Semantic segmentation of neuronal structures in 3D high-resolution fluorescence microscopy imaging of the human brain cortex can take advantage of bidimensional CNNs, which yield good results in neuron localization but lead to inaccurate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Filippo Maria Castelli , Matteo Roffilli , Giacomo Mazzamuto , Irene Costantini , Ludovico Silvestri , Francesco Saverio Pavone

Medical image analysis faces significant challenges due to limited annotation data, particularly in three-dimensional carotid artery segmentation tasks, where existing datasets exhibit spatially discontinuous slice annotations with only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Haoxuan Li , Wei Song , Aofan Liu , Peiwu Qin

Training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for very high resolution images requires a large quantity of high-quality pixel-level annotations, which is extremely labor- and time-consuming to produce. Moreover, professional photo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Yuansheng Hua , Diego Marcos , Lichao Mou , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Devis Tuia

Accurate segmentation of tissue in histopathological images can be very beneficial for defining regions of interest (ROI) for streamline of diagnostic and prognostic tasks. Still, adapting to different domains is essential for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-10 Saul Fuster , Farbod Khoraminia , Trygve Eftestøl , Tahlita C. M. Zuiverloon , Kjersti Engan

Recently, automated medical image segmentation methods based on deep learning have achieved great success. However, they heavily rely on large annotated datasets, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. Few-shot learning aims to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Jiayu Huo , Ruiqiang Xiao , Haotian Zheng , Yang Liu , Sebastien Ourselin , Rachel Sparks

A large labeled dataset is a key to the success of supervised deep learning, but for medical image segmentation, it is highly challenging to obtain sufficient annotated images for model training. In many scenarios, unannotated images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Hao Zheng , Jun Han , Hongxiao Wang , Lin Yang , Zhuo Zhao , Chaoli Wang , Danny Z. Chen