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Segmenting objects of interest in an image is an essential building block of applications such as photo-editing and image analysis. Under interactive settings, one should achieve good segmentations while minimizing user input. Current deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Soumajit Majumder , Ansh Khurana , Abhinav Rai , Angela Yao

The goal of interactive segmentation is to assist users in producing segmentation masks as fast and as accurately as possible. Interactions have to be simple and intuitive and the number of interactions required to produce a satisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Camille Dupont , Yanis Ouakrim , Quoc Cuong Pham

Interactive image segmentation algorithms rely on the user to provide annotations as the guidance. When the task of interactive segmentation is performed on a small touchscreen device, the requirement of providing precise annotations could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Ding-Jie Chen , Hwann-Tzong Chen , Long-Wen Chang

Image segmentation plays an essential role in medicine for both diagnostic and interventional tasks. Segmentation approaches are either manual, semi-automated or fully-automated. Manual segmentation offers full control over the quality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Tomas Sakinis , Fausto Milletari , Holger Roth , Panagiotis Korfiatis , Petro Kostandy , Kenneth Philbrick , Zeynettin Akkus , Ziyue Xu , Daguang Xu , Bradley J. Erickson

Interactive segmentation is a promising strategy for building robust, generalisable algorithms for volumetric medical image segmentation. However, inconsistent and clinically unrealistic evaluation hinders fair comparison and misrepresents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Parhom Esmaeili , Virginia Fernandez , Pedro Borges , Eli Gibson , Sebastien Ourselin , M. Jorge Cardoso

In this contribution, a semi-automatic segmentation algorithm for (medical) image analysis is presented. More precise, the approach belongs to the category of interactive contouring algorithms, which provide real-time feedback of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Jan Egger

Due to low tissue contrast, irregular object appearance, and unpredictable location variation, segmenting the objects from different medical imaging modalities (e.g., CT, MR) is considered as an important yet challenging task. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Jinquan Sun , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao , Lei Wang , Luping Zhou , Wanqi Yang , Dinggang Shen

Segmentation of organs or lesions from medical images plays an essential role in many clinical applications such as diagnosis and treatment planning. Though Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Xiangde Luo , Guotai Wang , Tao Song , Jingyang Zhang , Michael Aertsen , Jan Deprest , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren , Shaoting Zhang

In interactive instance segmentation, users give feedback to iteratively refine segmentation masks. The user-provided clicks are transformed into guidance maps which provide the network with necessary cues on the whereabouts of the object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Soumajit Majumder , Angela Yao

Interactive segmentation enables users to extract binary masks of target objects through simple interactions such as clicks, scribbles, and boxes. However, existing methods often support only limited interaction forms and struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Xi Chen , Hengshuang Zhao

Recently, several image segmentation methods that welcome and leverage different types of user assistance have been developed. In these methods, the user inputs can be provided by drawing bounding boxes over image objects, drawing scribbles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Huseyin Afser

Recent advancements in deep learning-based interactive segmentation methods have significantly improved pathology image segmentation. Most existing approaches utilize user-provided positive and negative clicks to guide the segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Tiantong Wang , Minfan Zhao , Jun Shi , Hannan Wang , Yue Dai

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

We propose a novel guided interactive segmentation (GIS) algorithm for video objects to improve the segmentation accuracy and reduce the interaction time. First, we design the reliability-based attention module to analyze the reliability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Yuk Heo , Yeong Jun Koh , Chang-Su Kim

In the interactive segmentation, users initially click on the target object to segment the main body and then provide corrections on mislabeled regions to iteratively refine the segmentation masks. Most existing methods transform these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Chun-Tse Lin , Wei-Chih Tu , Chih-Ting Liu , Shao-Yi Chien

Interactive segmentation methods rely on user inputs to iteratively update the selection mask. A click specifying the object of interest is arguably the most simple and intuitive interaction type, and thereby the most common choice for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Andrey Moskalenko , Vlad Shakhuro , Anna Vorontsova , Anton Konushin , Anton Antonov , Alexander Krapukhin , Denis Shepelev , Konstantin Soshin

In recent interactive segmentation algorithms, previous probability maps are used as network input to help predictions in the current segmentation round. However, despite the utilization of previous masks, useful information contained in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Chaewon Lee , Seon-Ho Lee , Chang-Su Kim

Interactive image segmentation aims at obtaining a segmentation mask for an image using simple user annotations. During each round of interaction, the segmentation result from the previous round serves as feedback to guide the user's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Qiaoqiao Wei , Hui Zhang , Jun-Hai Yong

For complex segmentation tasks, fully automatic systems are inherently limited in their achievable accuracy for extracting relevant objects. Especially in cases where only few data sets need to be processed for a highly accurate result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Mario Amrehn , Sven Gaube , Mathias Unberath , Frank Schebesch , Tim Horz , Maddalena Strumia , Stefan Steidl , Markus Kowarschik , Andreas Maier

Click-based interactive segmentation aims to generate target masks via human clicking, which facilitates efficient pixel-level annotation and image editing. In such a task, target ambiguity remains a problem hindering the accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Cilin Yan , Haochen Wang , Jie Liu , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Xu Tang , Guoliang Kang , Efstratios Gavves