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Computer vision tasks such as object detection and semantic/instance segmentation rely on the painstaking annotation of large training datasets. In this paper, we propose LocTex that takes advantage of the low-cost localized textual…

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Recent developments in neural networks have improved deformable image registration (DIR) by amortizing iterative optimization, enabling fast and accurate DIR results. However, learning-based methods often face challenges with limited…

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Obtaining a large amount of labeled data in medical imaging is laborious and time-consuming, especially for histopathology. However, it is much easier and cheaper to get unlabeled data from whole-slide images (WSIs). Semi-supervised…

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Semantic segmentation of polyps and depth estimation are two important research problems in endoscopic image analysis. One of the main obstacles to conduct research on these research problems is lack of annotated data. Endoscopic…

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Surgical scenes convey crucial information about the quality of surgery. Pixel-wise localization of tools and anatomical structures is the first task towards deeper surgical analysis for microscopic or endoscopic surgical views. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Çağhan Köksal , Ghazal Ghazaei , Nassir Navab

3D image segmentation is one of the most important and ubiquitous problems in medical image processing. It provides detailed quantitative analysis for accurate disease diagnosis, abnormal detection, and classification. Currently deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Zhenxi Zhang , Jie Li , Zhusi Zhong , Zhicheng Jiao , Xinbo Gao

Most of the current state-of-the-art methods for tumor segmentation are based on machine learning models trained on manually segmented images. This type of training data is particularly costly, as manual delineation of tumors is not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Pawel Mlynarski , Hervé Delingette , Antonio Criminisi , Nicholas Ayache

Recently, weakly-supervised image segmentation using weak annotations like scribbles has gained great attention, since such annotations are much easier to obtain compared to time-consuming and label-intensive labeling at the pixel/voxel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Qiuhui Chen , Yi Hong

Deep learning has been widely used to analyze digitized hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained histopathology whole slide images. Automated cancer segmentation using deep learning can be used to diagnose malignancy and to find novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 David Joon Ho , M. Herman Chui , Chad M. Vanderbilt , Jiwon Jung , Mark E. Robson , Chan-Sik Park , Jin Roh , Thomas J. Fuchs

Surgical phase recognition is a fundamental task in computer-assisted surgery systems. Most existing works are under the supervision of expensive and time-consuming full annotations, which require the surgeons to repeat watching videos to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Xinpeng Ding , Xinjian Yan , Zixun Wang , Wei Zhao , Jian Zhuang , Xiaowei Xu , Xiaomeng Li

AI for tumor segmentation is limited by the lack of large, voxel-wise annotated datasets, which are hard to create and require medical experts. In our proprietary JHH dataset of 3,000 annotated pancreatic tumor scans, we found that AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Qi Chen , Xinze Zhou , Chen Liu , Hao Chen , Wenxuan Li , Zekun Jiang , Ziyan Huang , Yuxuan Zhao , Dexin Yu , Junjun He , Yefeng Zheng , Ling Shao , Alan Yuille , Zongwei Zhou

In the last few years, deep learning classifiers have shown promising results in image-based medical diagnosis. However, interpreting the outputs of these models remains a challenge. In cancer diagnosis, interpretability can be achieved by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Kangning Liu , Yiqiu Shen , Nan Wu , Jakub Chłędowski , Carlos Fernandez-Granda , Krzysztof J. Geras

We introduce a novel crowdsourcing method for identifying important areas in graphical images through punch-hole labeling. Traditional methods, such as gaze trackers and mouse-based annotations, which generate continuous data, can be…

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Segmentation is essential for medical image analysis tasks such as intervention planning, therapy guidance, diagnosis, treatment decisions. Deep learning is becoming increasingly prominent for segmentation, where the lack of annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Firat Ozdemir , Zixuan Peng , Christine Tanner , Philipp Fuernstahl , Orcun Goksel

For medical image segmentation, most fully convolutional networks (FCNs) need strong supervision through a large sample of high-quality dense segmentations, which is taxing in terms of costs, time and logistics involved. This burden of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Yash Bhalgat , Meet Shah , Suyash Awate

The performance of image classification methodsheavily relies on the high-quality annotations, which are noteasily affordable, particularly for medical data. To alleviate thislimitation, in this study, we propose a weakly supervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Maedeh Sadat Fasihi , Wasfy B. Mikhael

The diagnosis of the presence of metastatic lymph nodes from abdominal computed tomography (CT) scans is an essential task performed by radiologists to guide radiation and chemotherapy treatment. State-of-the-art deep learning classifiers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Saskia Glaser , Gabriel Maicas , Sergei Bedrikovetski , Tarik Sammour , Gustavo Carneiro

Acquiring properly annotated data is expensive in the medical field as it requires experts, time-consuming protocols, and rigorous validation. Active learning attempts to minimize the need for large annotated samples by actively sampling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Bidur Khanal , Binod Bhattarai , Bishesh Khanal , Danail Stoyanov , Cristian A. Linte

Accurate segmentation of organelle instances, e.g., mitochondria, is essential for electron microscopy analysis. Despite the outstanding performance of fully supervised methods, they highly rely on sufficient per-pixel annotated data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Dafei Qiu , Jiajin Yi , Jialin Peng

Automatic segmentation of medical images is a key step for diagnostic and interventional tasks. However, achieving this requires large amounts of annotated volumes, which can be tedious and time-consuming task for expert annotators. In this…