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Automatic segmentation of anatomical structures with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) constitutes a large portion of research in medical image analysis. The majority of CNN-based methods rely on an abundance of labeled data for proper…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-20 Cheryl Sital , Tom Brosch , Dominique Tio , Alexander Raaijmakers , Jürgen Weese

This paper proposes a novel self-supervised learning method for semantic segmentation using selective masking image reconstruction as the pretraining task. Our proposed method replaces the random masking augmentation used in most masked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yuemin Wang , Ian Stavness

Image segmentation, the process of partitioning an image into meaningful regions, plays a pivotal role in computer vision and medical imaging applications. Unsupervised segmentation, particularly in the absence of labeled data, remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Kovvuri Sai Gopal Reddy , Bodduluri Saran , A. Mudit Adityaja , Saurabh J. Shigwan , Nitin Kumar

This paper presents a simple yet effective two-stage framework for semi-supervised medical image segmentation. Unlike prior state-of-the-art semi-supervised segmentation methods that predominantly rely on pseudo supervision directly on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Huimin Wu , Xiaomeng Li , Kwang-Ting Cheng

The scarcity of high-quality annotated medical imaging datasets is a major problem that collides with machine learning applications in the field of medical imaging analysis and impedes its advancement. Self-supervised learning is a recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-21 Saeed Shurrab , Rehab Duwairi

Medical experts often manually segment images to obtain diagnostic statistics and discard the resulting annotations. We aim to train segmentation models to alleviate this burden, but constrained to the retained summary statistics (e.g., the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Omkar Kulkarni , Edward Raff , Tim Oates

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for automatic medical image segmentation. However, they have not demonstrated sufficiently accurate and robust results for clinical use. In addition, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Guotai Wang , Wenqi Li , Maria A. Zuluaga , Rosalind Pratt , Premal A. Patel , Michael Aertsen , Tom Doel , Anna L. David , Jan Deprest , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren

Semantic segmentation is an important and popular research area in computer vision that focuses on classifying pixels in an image based on their semantics. However, supervised deep learning requires large amounts of data to train models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Lingyan Ran , Yali Li , Guoqiang Liang , Yanning Zhang

Automated histopathological image analysis plays a vital role in computer-aided diagnosis of various diseases. Among developed algorithms, deep learning-based approaches have demonstrated excellent performance in multiple tasks, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Nima Torbati , Anastasia Meshcheryakova , Ramona Woitek , Diana Mechtcheriakova , Amirreza Mahbod

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

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) presents an exciting opportunity to unlock the potential of vast, untapped clinical datasets, for various downstream applications that suffer from the scarcity of labeled data. While SSL has revolutionized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Tassilo Wald , Constantin Ulrich , Stanislav Lukyanenko , Andrei Goncharov , Alberto Paderno , Maximilian Miller , Leander Maerkisch , Paul F. Jäger , Klaus Maier-Hein

The ability to quickly annotate medical imaging data plays a critical role in training deep learning frameworks for segmentation. Doing so for image volumes or video sequences is even more pressing as annotating these is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Laurent Lejeune , Raphael Sznitman

Self-supervised contrastive learning is among the recent representation learning methods that have shown performance gains in several downstream tasks including semantic segmentation. This paper evaluates strong data augmentation, one of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Azeez Idris , Abdurahman Ali Mohammed , Samuel Fanijo

Medical image segmentation plays an irreplaceable role in computer-assisted diagnosis, treatment planning, and following-up. Collecting and annotating a large-scale dataset is crucial to training a powerful segmentation model, but producing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Xiangde Luo , Minhao Hu , Wenjun Liao , Shuwei Zhai , Tao Song , Guotai Wang , Shaoting Zhang

Recent trends in semi-supervised learning have significantly boosted the performance of 3D semi-supervised medical image segmentation. Compared with 2D images, 3D medical volumes involve information from different directions, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Heng Cai , Shumeng Li , Lei Qi , Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Label scarcity remains a major challenge in deep learning-based medical image segmentation. Recent studies use strong-weak pseudo supervision to leverage unlabeled data. However, performance is often hindered by inconsistencies between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhiqiang Shen , Peng Cao , Xiaoli Liu , Jinzhu Yang , Osmar R. Zaiane

One-shot medical image segmentation (MIS) is crucial for medical analysis due to the burden of medical experts on manual annotation. The recent emergence of the segment anything model (SAM) has demonstrated remarkable adaptation in MIS but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Jia Wang , Yunan Mei , Jiarui Liu , Xin Fan

The success of self-supervised learning (SSL) has mostly been attributed to the availability of unlabeled yet large-scale datasets. However, in a specialized domain such as medical imaging which is a lot different from natural images, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Soumitri Chattopadhyay , Soham Ganguly , Sreejit Chaudhury , Sayan Nag , Samiran Chattopadhyay

Medical image segmentation is a crucial task in medical image analysis, but it can be very challenging especially when there are less labeled data but with large unlabeled data. Contrastive learning has proven to be effective for medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Shihuan He , Zhihui Lai , Ruxin Wang , Heng Kong

With the development of medical imaging technology and machine learning, computer-assisted diagnosis which can provide impressive reference to pathologists, attracts extensive research interests. The exponential growth of medical images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Xiao Kang , Xingbo Liu , Xiushan Nie , Yilong Yin