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Despite the remarkable performance of deep learning methods on various tasks, most cutting-edge models rely heavily on large-scale annotated training examples, which are often unavailable for clinical and health care tasks. The labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jialin Peng , Ye Wang

This paper investigates methods for estimating uncertainty in semantic segmentation predictions derived from satellite imagery. Estimating uncertainty for segmentation presents unique challenges compared to standard image classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Melanie Rey , Andriy Mnih , Maxim Neumann , Matt Overlan , Drew Purves

Medical image segmentation remains challenging due to limited annotations for training, ambiguous anatomical features, and domain shifts. While vision-language models such as CLIP offer strong cross-modal representations, their potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Taha Koleilat , Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Omid Nejati Manzari , Berardino Barile , Yiming Xiao , Hassan Rivaz

We propose a novel approach to image segmentation based on combining implicit spline representations with deep convolutional neural networks. This is done by predicting the control points of a bivariate spline function whose zero-set…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Oliver J. D. Barrowclough , Georg Muntingh , Varatharajan Nainamalai , Ivar Stangeby

Partly due to the use of exhaustive-annotated data, deep networks have achieved impressive performance on medical image segmentation. Medical imaging data paired with noisy annotation are, however, ubiquitous, but little is known about the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-16 Shaode Yu , Erlei Zhang , Junjie Wu , Hang Yu , Zi Yang , Lin Ma , Mingli Chen , Xuejun Gu , Weiguo Lu

The reliability of segmentation models in the medical domain depends on the model's robustness to perturbations in the input space. Robustness is a particular challenge in medical imaging exhibiting various sources of image noise,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-06 Ainkaran Santhirasekaram , Avinash Kori , Mathias Winkler , Andrea Rockall , Ben Glocker

Quantifying the accuracy of segmentation and manual delineation of organs, tissue types and tumors in medical images is a necessary measurement that suffers from multiple problems. One major shortcoming of all accuracy measures is that they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Hamid R. Tizhoosh , Ahmed A. Othman

Active learning (AL) has found wide applications in medical image segmentation, aiming to alleviate the annotation workload and enhance performance. Conventional uncertainty-based AL methods, such as entropy and Bayesian, often rely on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Siteng Ma , Haochang Wu , Aonghus Lawlor , Ruihai Dong

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are propelling advances in a range of different computer vision tasks such as object detection and object segmentation. Their success has motivated research in applications of such models for medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Kristoffer Wickstrøm , Michael Kampffmeyer , Robert Jenssen

Accurate image registration is essential in many medical imaging applications, yet most deep registration networks provide little indication of when or where their predictions are unreliable. Existing uncertainty estimation approaches, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Lin Tian , Xiaoling Hu , Juan Eugenio Iglesias

Polyp segmentation is a crucial step towards computer-aided diagnosis of colorectal cancer. However, most of the polyp segmentation methods require pixel-wise annotated datasets. Annotated datasets are tedious and time-consuming to produce,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Guangyu Ren , Michalis Lazarou , Jing Yuan , Tania Stathaki

Generalization is an important attribute of machine learning models, particularly for those that are to be deployed in a medical context, where unreliable predictions can have real world consequences. While the failure of models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Brennan Nichyporuk , Jillian Cardinell , Justin Szeto , Raghav Mehta , Jean-Pierre R. Falet , Douglas L. Arnold , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris , Tal Arbel

Eye gaze that reveals human observational patterns has increasingly been incorporated into solutions for vision tasks. Despite recent explorations on leveraging gaze to aid deep networks, few studies exploit gaze as an efficient annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yuan Zhong , Chenhui Tang , Yumeng Yang , Ruoxi Qi , Kang Zhou , Yuqi Gong , Pheng Ann Heng , Janet H. Hsiao , Qi Dou

We introduce uncertainty-aware object instance segmentation (UncOS) and demonstrate its usefulness for embodied interactive segmentation. To deal with uncertainty in robot perception, we propose a method for generating a hypothesis…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Xiaolin Fang , Leslie Pack Kaelbling , Tomás Lozano-Pérez

Brain tumor segmentation is often based on multiple magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, in clinical practice, certain modalities of MRI may be missing, which presents a more difficult scenario. To cope with this challenge, Knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Tianyi Liu , Zhaorui Tan , Muyin Chen , Xi Yang , Haochuan Jiang , Kaizhu Huang

Motivated by the increasing popularity of transformers in computer vision, in recent times there has been a rapid development of novel architectures. While in-domain performance follows a constant, upward trend, properties like robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Pau de Jorge , Riccardo Volpi , Philip Torr , Gregory Rogez

Integrating multi-modal data to promote medical image analysis has recently gained great attention. This paper presents a novel scheme to learn the mutual benefits of different modalities to achieve better segmentation results for unpaired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Jie Yang , Ye Zhu , Chaoqun Wang , Zhen Li , Ruimao Zhang

Uncertainty estimation in deep learning has become a leading research field in medical image analysis due to the need for safe utilisation of AI algorithms in clinical practice. Most approaches for uncertainty estimation require sampling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Kaisar Kushibar , Víctor Manuel Campello , Lidia Garrucho Moras , Akis Linardos , Petia Radeva , Karim Lekadir

In medical image segmentation, uncertainty estimates are often reported but rarely used to guide decisions. We study the missing step: how uncertainty maps are converted into actionable policies such as accepting, flagging, or deferring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Saket Maganti

Medical Image Foundation Models have proven to be powerful tools for mask prediction across various datasets. However, accurately assessing the uncertainty of their predictions remains a significant challenge. To address this, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Xin Wang , Xiaoyu Liu , Peng Huang , Pu Huang , Shu Hu , Hongtu Zhu