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To alleviate the burden of gathering detailed expert annotations when training deep neural networks, we propose a weakly supervised learning approach to recognize metastases in microscopic images of breast lymph nodes. We describe an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Shazia Akbar , Anne L. Martel

Weakly-supervised salient object detection (WSOD) aims to develop saliency models using image-level annotations. Despite of the success of previous works, explorations on an effective training strategy for the saliency network and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Yongri Piao , Jian Wang , Miao Zhang , Zhengxuan Ma , Huchuan Lu

We present a weakly supervised deep learning model for classifying thoracic diseases and identifying abnormalities in chest radiography. In this work, instead of learning from medical imaging data with region-level annotations, our model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Bo Zhou , Yuemeng Li , Jiangcong Wang

Weakly supervised methods, such as class activation maps (CAM) based, have been applied to achieve bleeding segmentation with low annotation efforts in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) images. However, the CAM labels tend to be extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Fan Bai , Xiaohan Xing , Yutian Shen , Han Ma , Max Q. -H. Meng

Automated pathology segmentation remains a valuable diagnostic tool in clinical practice. However, collecting training data is challenging. Semi-supervised approaches by combining labelled and unlabelled data can offer a solution to data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Haochuan Jiang , Agisilaos Chartsias , Xinheng Zhang , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Scott Semple , Mark Dweck , David Semple , Rohan Dharmakumar , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Graph classification plays a pivotal role in various domains, including pathology, where images can be represented as graphs. In this domain, images can be represented as graphs, where nodes might represent individual nuclei, and edges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Aditya Prakash

Liver vessel segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging data is important for the computational analysis of vascular remodelling, associated with a wide spectrum of diffuse liver diseases. Existing approaches rely on contrast enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Daniel Sobotka , Alexander Herold , Matthias Perkonigg , Lucian Beer , Nina Bastati , Alina Sablatnig , Ahmed Ba-Ssalamah , Georg Langs

3D medical image segmentation is a challenging task with crucial implications for disease diagnosis and treatment planning. Recent advances in deep learning have significantly enhanced fully supervised medical image segmentation. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Runmin Jiang , Zhaoxin Fan , Junhao Wu , Lenghan Zhu , Xin Huang , Tianyang Wang , Heng Huang , Min Xu

Annotation cost is a bottleneck for collecting massive data in mammography, especially for training deep neural networks. In this paper, we study the use of heterogeneous levels of annotation granularity to improve predictive performances.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-13 Thi-Lam-Thuy Le , Nicolas Thome , Sylvain Bernard , Vincent Bismuth , Fanny Patoureaux

Accurate and efficient catheter segmentation in 3D ultrasound (US) is essential for cardiac intervention. Currently, the state-of-the-art segmentation algorithms are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which achieved remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Hongxu Yang , Caifeng Shan , Alexander F. Kolen , Peter H. N. de With

The detection and segmentation of white blood cells in blood smear images is a key step in medical diagnostics, supporting various downstream tasks such as automated blood cell counting, morphological analysis, cell classification, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Michael Deutges , Chen Yang , Raheleh Salehi , Nassir Navab , Carsten Marr , Ario Sadafi

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

Segmentation of carotid vessel wall is required in vessel wall volume (VWV) and local vessel-wall-plus-plaque thickness (VWT) quantification of the carotid artery. Manual segmentation of the vessel wall is time-consuming and prone to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-27 Mingjie Jiang , J. David Spence , Bernard Chiu

Automated disease classification of radiology images has been emerging as a promising technique to support clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Unlike generic image classification tasks, a real-world radiology image classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Congbo Ma , Hu Wang , Steven C. H. Hoi

Large medical imaging datasets can be cheaply and quickly annotated with low-confidence, weak labels (e.g., radiological scores). Access to high-confidence labels, such as histology-based diagnoses, is rare and costly. Pretraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Emma Sarfati , Alexandre Bône , Marc-Michel Rohé , Pietro Gori , Isabelle Bloch

For fine-grained visual classification, objects usually share similar geometric structure but present variant local appearance and different pose. Therefore, localizing and extracting discriminative local features play a crucial role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Tao Hu , Jizheng Xu , Cong Huang , Honggang Qi , Qingming Huang , Yan Lu

Nuclei instance segmentation on histopathology images is of great clinical value for disease analysis. Generally, fully-supervised algorithms for this task require pixel-wise manual annotations, which is especially time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yang Zhou , Yongjian Wu , Zihua Wang , Bingzheng Wei , Maode Lai , Jianzhong Shou , Yubo Fan , Yan Xu

Existing weakly-supervised semantic segmentation methods using image-level annotations typically rely on initial responses to locate object regions. However, such response maps generated by the classification network usually focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Yu-Ting Chang , Qiaosong Wang , Wei-Chih Hung , Robinson Piramuthu , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Automated nodule segmentation is essential for computer-assisted diagnosis in ultrasound images. Nevertheless, most existing methods depend on precise pixel-level annotations by medical professionals, a process that is both costly and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Xingyue Zhao , Peiqi Li , Xiangde Luo , Meng Yang , Shi Chang , Zhongyu Li

Accurate segmentation of organelle instances from electron microscopy (EM) images plays an essential role in many neuroscience researches. However, practical scenarios usually suffer from high annotation costs, label scarcity, and large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Dafei Qiu , Shan Xiong , Jiajin Yi , Jialin Peng