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This work presents a novel self-supervised pre-training method to learn efficient representations without labels on histopathology medical images utilizing magnification factors. Other state-of-theart works mainly focus on fully supervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 Prakash Chandra Chhipa , Richa Upadhyay , Gustav Grund Pihlgren , Rajkumar Saini , Seiichi Uchida , Marcus Liwicki

Data augmentations are useful in closing the sim-to-real domain gap when training on synthetic data. This is because they widen the training data distribution, thus encouraging the model to generalize better to other domains. Many image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bram Vanherle , Nick Michiels , Frank Van Reeth

Synthetic data generation in histopathology faces unique challenges: preserving tissue heterogeneity, capturing subtle morphological features, and scaling to unannotated datasets. We present a latent diffusion model that generates realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Saghir Alfasly , Wataru Uegami , MD Enamul Hoq , Ghazal Alabtah , H. R. Tizhoosh

In this study, a novel method of data augmentation has been presented for the segmentation of placental histological images when the labeled data are scarce. This method generates new realizations of the placenta intervillous morphology…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-10 Arash Rabbani , Masoud Babaei , Masoumeh Gharib

In medical image segmentation, supervised deep networks' success comes at the cost of requiring abundant labeled data. While asking domain experts to annotate only one or a few of the cohort's images is feasible, annotating all available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Devavrat Tomar , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Manana Lortkipanidze , Guillaume Vray , Mohammad Saeed Rad , Jean-Philippe Thiran

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have emerged as strong visual representation learners by training an image encoder to maximize similarity between features of different views of the same image. To perform this view-invariance task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Varun Belagali , Srikar Yellapragada , Alexandros Graikos , Saarthak Kapse , Zilinghan Li , Tarak Nath Nandi , Ravi K Madduri , Prateek Prasanna , Joel Saltz , Dimitris Samaras

Large-scale, big-variant, high-quality data are crucial for developing robust and successful deep-learning models for medical applications since they potentially enable better generalization performance and avoid overfitting. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zheyuan Zhang , Lanhong Yao , Bin Wang , Debesh Jha , Gorkem Durak , Elif Keles , Alpay Medetalibeyoglu , Ulas Bagci

We are considering in this paper the task of label-efficient fine-tuning of segmentation models: We assume that a large labeled dataset is available and allows to train an accurate segmentation model in one domain, and that we have to adapt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Bruno Sauvalle , Mathieu Salzmann

One of the main challenges in current research on segmentation in cardiac ultrasound is the lack of large and varied labeled datasets and the differences in annotation conventions between datasets. This makes it difficult to design robust…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-28 Gilles Van De Vyver , Aksel Try Lenz , Erik Smistad , Sindre Hellum Olaisen , Bjørnar Grenne , Espen Holte , Håavard Dalen , Lasse Løvstakken

The usage of medical image data for the training of large-scale machine learning approaches is particularly challenging due to its scarce availability and the costly generation of data annotations, typically requiring the engagement of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Joshua Niemeijer , Jan Ehrhardt , Hristina Uzunova , Heinz Handels

Generative diffusion models show promise for data augmentation. However, applying them to fine-grained tasks presents a significant challenge: ensuring synthetic images accurately capture the subtle, category-defining features critical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zhiguang Lu , Qianqian Xu , Peisong Wen , Siran Dai , Qingming Huang

By decomposing the image formation process into a sequential application of denoising autoencoders, diffusion models (DMs) achieve state-of-the-art synthesis results on image data and beyond. Additionally, their formulation allows for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Robin Rombach , Andreas Blattmann , Dominik Lorenz , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

Diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as powerful foundation models for a variety of tasks, with a large focus in synthetic image generation. However, their requirement of large annotated datasets for training limits their applicability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Guillermo Jimenez-Perez , Pedro Osorio , Josef Cersovsky , Javier Montalt-Tordera , Jens Hooge , Steffen Vogler , Sadegh Mohammadi

Deep Learning models are incredibly data-hungry and require very large labeled datasets for supervised learning. As a consequence, these models often suffer from overfitting, limiting their ability to generalize to real-world examples.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Sahiti Yerramilli , Jayant Sravan Tamarapalli , Tanmay Girish Kulkarni , Jonathan Francis , Eric Nyberg

Data augmentation is a critical contributing factor to the success of deep learning but heavily relies on prior domain knowledge which is not always available. Recent works on automatic data augmentation learn a policy to form a sequence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Kaiwen Yang , Yanchao Sun , Jiahao Su , Fengxiang He , Xinmei Tian , Furong Huang , Tianyi Zhou , Dacheng Tao

Medical image data is less accessible than in other domains due to privacy and regulatory constraints. In addition, labeling requires costly, time-intensive manual image annotation by clinical experts. To overcome these challenges,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Fangyijie Wang , Kevin Whelan , Félix Balado , Kathleen M. Curran , Guénolé Silvestre

Training a deep learning model to classify histopathological images is challenging, because of the color and shape variability of the cells and tissues, and the reduced amount of available data, which does not allow proper learning of those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Saypraseuth Mounsaveng , Issam Laradji , David Vázquez , Marco Perdersoli , Ismail Ben Ayed

Whole slide image (WSI) analysis in digital pathology presents unique challenges due to the gigapixel resolution of WSIs and the scarcity of dense supervision signals. While Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) is a natural fit for slide-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Sofiène Boutaj , Marin Scalbert , Pierre Marza , Florent Couzinie-Devy , Maria Vakalopoulou , Stergios Christodoulidis

Image generation abilities of text-to-image diffusion models have significantly advanced, yielding highly photo-realistic images from descriptive text and increasing the viability of leveraging synthetic images to train computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Jiahui Chen , Amy Zhang , Adriana Romero-Soriano

Synthesizing realistic medical images provides a feasible solution to the shortage of training data in deep learning based medical image recognition systems. However, the quality control of synthetic images for data augmentation purposes is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Jiarong Ye , Yuan Xue , L. Rodney Long , Sameer Antani , Zhiyun Xue , Keith Cheng , Xiaolei Huang