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Weakly-supervised medical image segmentation is gaining traction as it requires only rough annotations rather than accurate pixel-to-pixel labels, thereby reducing the workload for specialists. Although some progress has been made, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Wang Lituan , Zhang Lei , Wang Yan , Wang Zhenbin , Zhang Zhenwei , Zhang Yi

Cancer detection and classification from gigapixel whole slide images of stained tissue specimens has recently experienced enormous progress in computational histopathology. The limitation of available pixel-wise annotated scans shifted the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Mehdi Naouar , Gabriel Kalweit , Ignacio Mastroleo , Philipp Poxleitner , Marc Metzger , Joschka Boedecker , Maria Kalweit

Medical image annotation is essential for diagnosing diseases, yet manual annotation is time-consuming, costly, and prone to variability among experts. To address these challenges, we propose an automated explainable annotation system that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Basma Nasir , Tehseen Zia , Muhammad Nawaz , Catarina Moreira

The costly process of obtaining semantic segmentation labels has driven research towards weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods, using only image-level, point, or box labels. The lack of dense scene representation requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Peri Akiva , Kristin Dana

Machine learning has been widely adopted for medical image analysis in recent years given its promising performance in image segmentation and classification tasks. As a data-driven science, the success of machine learning, in particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Chengliang Dai , Shuo Wang , Yuanhan Mo , Kaichen Zhou , Elsa Angelini , Yike Guo , Wenjia Bai

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

Automatic medical image segmentation plays a critical role in scientific research and medical care. Existing high-performance deep learning methods typically rely on large training datasets with high-quality manual annotations, which are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Shanshan Wang , Cheng Li , Rongpin Wang , Zaiyi Liu , Meiyun Wang , Hongna Tan , Yaping Wu , Xinfeng Liu , Hui Sun , Rui Yang , Xin Liu , Jie Chen , Huihui Zhou , Ismail Ben Ayed , Hairong Zheng

Accurate annotation of medical image is the crucial step for image AI clinical application. However, annotating medical image will incur a great deal of annotation effort and expense due to its high complexity and needing experienced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Yang Deng , Yao Sun , Yongpei Zhu , Yue Xu , Qianxi Yang , Shuo Zhang , Mingwang Zhu , Jirang Sun , Weiling Zhao , Xiaobo Zhou , Kehong Yuan

Annotation variability remains a substantial challenge in medical image segmentation, stemming from ambiguous imaging boundaries and diverse clinical expertise. Traditional deep learning methods producing single deterministic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Han Zhang , Xiangde Luo , Yong Chen , Kang Li

Long-term test-time adaptation (TTA) is a challenging task due to error accumulation. Recent approaches tackle this issue by actively labeling a small proportion of samples in each batch, yet the annotation burden quickly grows as the batch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Guowei Wang , Changxing Ding

Medical image annotation typically requires expert knowledge and hence incurs time-consuming and expensive data annotation costs. To alleviate this burden, we propose a novel learning scenario, Exemplar Learning (EL), to explore automated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Qing En , Yuhong Guo

Background and objective: The usage of machine learning in medical diagnosis and treatment has witnessed significant growth in recent years through the development of computer-aided diagnosis systems that are often relying on annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Mateja Napravnik , Franko Hržić , Sebastian Tschauner , Ivan Štajduhar

Image segmentation is one of the most essential biomedical image processing problems for different imaging modalities, including microscopy and X-ray in the Internet-of-Medical-Things (IoMT) domain. However, annotating biomedical images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Ziyuan Zhao , Zeng Zeng , Kaixin Xu , Cen Chen , Cuntai Guan

Image segmentation methods are usually trained with pixel-level annotations, which require significant human effort to collect. The most common solution to address this constraint is to implement weakly-supervised pipelines trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Miriam Bellver , Amaia Salvador , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Most computer aided pathology detection systems rely on large volumes of quality annotated data to aid diagnostics and follow up procedures. However, quality assuring large volumes of annotated medical image data can be subjective and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Sohini Roychowdhury

Annotating lidar point clouds for autonomous driving is a notoriously expensive and time-consuming task. In this work, we show that the quality of recent self-supervised lidar scan representations allows a great reduction of the annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Nermin Samet , Gilles Puy , Oriane Siméoni , Renaud Marlet

Automated segmentation of medical images heavily relies on the availability of precise manual annotations. However, generating these annotations is often time-consuming, expensive, and sometimes requires specialized expertise (especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yixin Zhang , Kevin Kramer , Maciej A. Mazurowski

The success of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in 3D medical image segmentation relies on massive fully annotated 3D volumes for training that are time-consuming and labor-intensive to acquire. In this paper, we propose to annotate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Shuwei Zhai , Guotai Wang , Xiangde Luo , Qiang Yue , Kang Li , Shaoting Zhang

Medical image segmentation methods typically rely on numerous dense annotated images for model training, which are notoriously expensive and time-consuming to collect. To alleviate this burden, weakly supervised techniques have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Qing En , Yuhong Guo

To be effective, state of the art machine learning technology needs large amounts of annotated data. There are numerous compelling applications in healthcare that can benefit from high performance automated decision support systems provided…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-09 Scott Yang , Silvia Lopez , Meysam Golmohammadi , Iyad Obeid , Joseph Picone