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To efficiently establish training databases for machine learning methods, collaborative and crowdsourcing platforms have been investigated to collectively tackle the annotation effort. However, when this concept is ported to the medical…

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Medical image segmentation typically necessitates a large and precisely annotated dataset. However, obtaining pixel-wise annotation is a labor-intensive task that requires significant effort from domain experts, making it challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Heng Cai , Lei Qi , Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

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

The lack of sufficient annotated image data is a common issue in medical image segmentation. For some organs and densities, the annotation may be scarce, leading to poor model training convergence, while other organs have plenty of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-22 Anastasia Makarevich , Azade Farshad , Vasileios Belagiannis , 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

The medical imaging community generates a wealth of datasets, many of which are openly accessible and annotated for specific diseases and tasks such as multi-organ or lesion segmentation. Current practices continue to limit model training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Constantin Ulrich , Fabian Isensee , Tassilo Wald , Maximilian Zenk , Michael Baumgartner , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

The problem of inter-rater variability is often discussed in the context of manual labeling of medical images. The emergence of data-driven approaches such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) brought this issue of raters' disagreement to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Or Shwartzman , Harel Gazit , Ilan Shelef , Tammy Riklin-Raviv

High-quality pixel-level annotations of medical images are essential for supervised segmentation tasks, but obtaining such annotations is costly and requires medical expertise. To address this challenge, we propose a novel coarse-to-fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Anghong Du , Nay Aung , Theodoros N. Arvanitis , Stefan K. Piechnik , Joao A C Lima , Steffen E. Petersen , Le Zhang

Deep learning methods are the de-facto solutions to a multitude of medical image analysis tasks. Cardiac MRI segmentation is one such application which, like many others, requires a large number of annotated data so a trained network can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-02 Youssef Skandarani , Pierre-Marc Jodoin , Alain Lalande

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

The Medical Segment Anything Model (MedSAM) has shown remarkable performance in medical image segmentation, drawing significant attention in the field. However, its sensitivity to varying prompt types and locations poses challenges. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Nan Zhou , Ke Zou , Kai Ren , Mengting Luo , Linchao He , Meng Wang , Yidi Chen , Yi Zhang , Hu Chen , Huazhu Fu

Manual annotation of medical images is a labor-intensive and time-consuming process, posing a significant bottleneck in the development and deployment of robust medical imaging AI systems. This paper introduces a novel hands-free Human-AI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Yizhe Zhang

In medical imaging, the heterogeneity of multi-centre data impedes the applicability of deep learning-based methods and results in significant performance degradation when applying models in an unseen data domain, e.g. a new centreor a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Hongwei Li , Timo Loehr , Anjany Sekuboyina , Jianguo Zhang , Benedikt Wiestler , Bjoern Menze

Interactive segmentation is a crucial research area in medical image analysis aiming to boost the efficiency of costly annotations by incorporating human feedback. This feedback takes the form of clicks, scribbles, or masks and allows for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Zdravko Marinov , Paul F. Jäger , Jan Egger , Jens Kleesiek , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Obtaining large-scale medical data, annotated or unannotated, is challenging due to stringent privacy regulations and data protection policies. In addition, annotating medical images requires that domain experts manually delineate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Tushar Kataria , Shireen Y. Elhabian

Deep learning techniques have shown great potential in medical image processing, particularly through accurate and reliable image segmentation on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans or computed tomography (CT) scans, which allow the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Yang Liu , Ersi Zhang , Lulu Xu , Chufan Xiao , Xiaoyun Zhong , Lijin Lian , Fang Li , Bin Jiang , Yuhan Dong , Lan Ma , Qiming Huang , Ming Xu , Yongbing Zhang , Dongmei Yu , Chenggang Yan , Peiwu Qin

Few-shot learning has been successfully applied to medical image classification as only very few medical examples are available for training. Due to the challenging problem of limited number of annotated medical images, image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhenwei Wang , Qiule Sun , Bingbing Zhang , Pengfei Wang , Jianxin Zhang , Qiang Zhang

Two of the most common tasks in medical imaging are classification and segmentation. Either task requires labeled data annotated by experts, which is scarce and expensive to collect. Annotating data for segmentation is generally considered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ozan Ciga , Anne L. Martel

Automated segmentation of cancer on medical images can aid targeted diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. However, its adoption is limited by the high cost of expert annotations required for training and inter-observer variability in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-26 Lynn Karam , Yipei Wang , Veeru Kasivisvanathan , Mirabela Rusu , Yipeng Hu , Shaheer U. Saeed

Semantic segmentation of medical images is pivotal in applications like disease diagnosis and treatment planning. While deep learning has excelled in automating this task, a major hurdle is the need for numerous annotated segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Li Zhang , Basu Jindal , Ahmed Alaa , Robert Weinreb , David Wilson , Eran Segal , James Zou , Pengtao Xie