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The vast majority of semantic segmentation approaches rely on pixel-level annotations that are tedious and time consuming to obtain and suffer from significant inter and intra-expert variability. To address these issues, recent approaches…

Medical image segmentation is a key task in the imaging workflow, influencing many image-based decisions. Traditional, fully-supervised segmentation models rely on large amounts of labeled training data, typically obtained through manual…

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Nodule segmentation from breast ultrasound images is challenging yet essential for the diagnosis. Weakly-supervised segmentation (WSS) can help reduce time-consuming and cumbersome manual annotation. Unlike existing weakly-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yuhao Huang , Xin Yang , Yuxin Zou , Chaoyu Chen , Jian Wang , Haoran Dou , Nishant Ravikumar , Alejandro F Frangi , Jianqiao Zhou , Dong Ni

Recently, large vision model, Segment Anything Model (SAM), has revolutionized the computer vision field, especially for image segmentation. SAM presented a new promptable segmentation paradigm that exhibit its remarkable zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Chenglong Wang , Dexuan Li , Sucheng Wang , Chengxiu Zhang , Yida Wang , Yun Liu , Guang Yang

The high cost of creating pixel-by-pixel gold-standard labels, limited expert availability, and presence of diverse tasks make it challenging to generate segmentation labels to train deep learning models for medical imaging tasks. In this…

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Semantic Segmentation is one of the most challenging vision tasks, usually requiring large amounts of training data with expensive pixel level annotations. With the success of foundation models and especially vision-language models, recent…

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Reliable classification and detection of certain medical conditions, in images, with state-of-the-art semantic segmentation networks, require vast amounts of pixel-wise annotation. However, the public availability of such datasets is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Erik Ostrowski , Bharath Srinivas Prabakaran , Muhammad Shafique

Present-day deep neural networks for video semantic segmentation require a large number of fine-grained pixel-level annotations to achieve the best possible results. Obtaining such annotations, however, is very expensive. On the other hand,…

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Foundational models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) are gaining traction in medical imaging segmentation, supporting multiple downstream tasks. However, such models are supervised in nature, still relying on large annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Aishik Konwer , Zhijian Yang , Erhan Bas , Cao Xiao , Prateek Prasanna , Parminder Bhatia , Taha Kass-Hout

Recently deep neural networks, which require a large amount of annotated samples, have been widely applied in nuclei instance segmentation of H\&E stained pathology images. However, it is inefficient and unnecessary to label all pixels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Wei Lou , Haofeng Li , Guanbin Li , Xiaoguang Han , Xiang Wan

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) marks a significant advancement in segmentation models, offering robust zero-shot abilities and dynamic prompting. However, existing medical SAMs are not suitable for the multi-scale nature of whole-slide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Hong Liu , Haosen Yang , Paul J. van Diest , Josien P. W. Pluim , Mitko Veta

Foundation models such as the recently introduced Segment Anything Model (SAM) have achieved remarkable results in image segmentation tasks. However, these models typically require user interaction through handcrafted prompts such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mélanie Gaillochet , Christian Desrosiers , Hervé Lombaert

Deep neural networks have enabled major progresses in semantic segmentation. However, even the most advanced neural architectures suffer from important limitations. First, they are vulnerable to catastrophic forgetting, i.e. they perform…

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Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has become a promising solution to alleviate the annotation burden of deep learning-based medical image segmentation models. While recent advances in foundation model-driven SSL have pushed the boundary to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yichi Zhang , Le Xue , Bichun Xu , Judong Luo , Zhigang Wu , Yu Fu , Zixin Hu , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi

To efficiently establish training databases for machine learning methods, collaborative and crowdsourcing platforms have been investigated to collectively tackle the annotation effort. However, when this concept is ported to the medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Martin Rajchl , Lisa M. Koch , Christian Ledig , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach , Kazunari Misawa , Kensaku Mori , Daniel Rueckert

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits a capability to segment a wide array of objects in natural images, serving as a versatile perceptual tool for various downstream image segmentation tasks. In contrast, medical image segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yizhe Zhang , Tao Zhou , Shuo Wang , Ye Wu , Pengfei Gu , Danny Z. Chen

We have witnessed remarkable progress in foundation models in vision tasks. Currently, several recent works have utilized the segmenting anything model (SAM) to boost the segmentation performance in medical images, where most of them focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Haoran Wang , Lian Huai , Wenbin Li , Lei Qi , Xingqun Jiang , Yinghuan Shi

Analysis of histopathology slides is a critical step for many diagnoses, and in particular in oncology where it defines the gold standard. In the case of digital histopathological analysis, highly trained pathologists must review vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Pierre Courtiol , Eric W. Tramel , Marc Sanselme , Gilles Wainrib

Segment Anything Model (SAM) represents a large-scale segmentation model that enables powerful zero-shot capabilities with flexible prompts. While SAM can segment any object in zero-shot, it requires user-provided prompts for each target…

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Learning to segmentation without large-scale samples is an inherent capability of human. Recently, Segment Anything Model (SAM) performs the significant zero-shot image segmentation, attracting considerable attention from the computer…

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