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3D deep learning is a growing field of interest due to the vast amount of information stored in 3D formats. Triangular meshes are an efficient representation for irregular, non-uniform 3D objects. However, meshes are often challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Ayaan Haque , Hankyu Moon , Heng Hao , Sima Didari , Jae Oh Woo , Patrick Bangert

Recent self-supervised advances in medical computer vision exploit global and local anatomical self-similarity for pretraining prior to downstream tasks such as segmentation. However, current methods assume i.i.d. image acquisition, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Mengwei Ren , Neel Dey , Martin A. Styner , Kelly Botteron , Guido Gerig

Collecting large-scale medical datasets with fully annotated samples for training of deep networks is prohibitively expensive, especially for 3D volume data. Recent breakthroughs in self-supervised learning (SSL) offer the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Duy M. H. Nguyen , Hoang Nguyen , Mai T. N. Truong , Tri Cao , Binh T. Nguyen , Nhat Ho , Paul Swoboda , Shadi Albarqouni , Pengtao Xie , Daniel Sonntag

Medical image segmentation has been significantly advanced by deep learning (DL) techniques, though the data scarcity inherent in medical applications poses a great challenge to DL-based segmentation methods. Self-supervised learning offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Binyan Hu , A. K. Qin

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

Supervised learning demands large amounts of precisely annotated data to achieve promising results. Such data curation is labor-intensive and imposes significant overhead regarding time and costs. Self-supervised learning (SSL) partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Thangarajah Akilan , Nusrat Jahan , Wandong Zhang

Traditional supervised 3D medical image segmentation models need voxel-level annotations, which require huge human effort, time, and cost. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) addresses this limitation of supervised learning by facilitating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Suruchi Kumari , Aryan Das , Swalpa Kumar Roy , Indu Joshi , Pravendra Singh

Supervised deep learning-based methods yield accurate results for medical image segmentation. However, they require large labeled datasets for this, and obtaining them is a laborious task that requires clinical expertise.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Krishna Chaitanya , Ertunc Erdil , Neerav Karani , Ender Konukoglu

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

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental and critical step in many image-guided clinical approaches. Recent success of deep learning-based segmentation methods usually relies on a large amount of labeled data, which is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Rushi Jiao , Yichi Zhang , Le Ding , Rong Cai , Jicong Zhang

The field of self-supervised learning (SSL) for 3D medical images lacks consistency and standardization. While many methods have been developed, it is impossible to identify the current state-of-the-art, due to i) varying and small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Tassilo Wald , Constantin Ulrich , Jonathan Suprijadi , Sebastian Ziegler , Michal Nohel , Robin Peretzke , Gregor Köhler , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

In clinical practice, 2D magnetic resonance (MR) sequences are widely adopted. While individual 2D slices can be stacked to form a 3D volume, the relatively large slice spacing can pose challenges for both image visualization and subsequent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Xin Wang , Zhiyun Song , Yitao Zhu , Sheng Wang , Lichi Zhang , Dinggang Shen , Qian Wang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for addressing the annotation bottleneck in medical imaging by learning representations from unlabeled data. However, its effectiveness depends heavily on the design of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chathura Wimalasiri

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is a promising machine learning paradigm to address the issue of label scarcity in medical imaging. SSL methods were originally developed in image classification. The state-of-the-art SSL methods in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Mou-Cheng Xu , Yukun Zhou , Chen Jin , Marius De Groot , Neil P. Oxtoby , Daniel C. Alexander , Joseph Jacob

This paper demonstrates that spatial information can be used to learn interpretable representations in medical images using Self-Supervised Learning (SSL). Our proposed method, ISImed, is based on the observation that medical images exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Nabil Jabareen , Dongsheng Yuan , Sören Lukassen

The success of deep learning methods in medical image segmentation tasks usually requires a large amount of labeled data. However, obtaining reliable annotations is expensive and time-consuming. Semi-supervised learning has attracted much…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Yichi Zhang , Jicong Zhang

Vision transformers, with their ability to more efficiently model long-range context, have demonstrated impressive accuracy gains in several computer vision and medical image analysis tasks including segmentation. However, such methods need…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Jue Jiang , Neelam Tyagi , Kathryn Tringale , Christopher Crane , Harini Veeraraghavan

Accurate medical image segmentation is of utmost importance for enabling automated clinical decision procedures. However, prevailing supervised deep learning approaches for medical image segmentation encounter significant challenges due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Yury Velichko , Ulas Bagci , Dorit Merhof

Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) is important for reducing the annotation cost for medical image segmentation models. State-of-the-art SSL methods such as Mean Teacher, FixMatch and Cross Pseudo Supervision (CPS) are mainly based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Weiren Zhao , Lanfeng Zhong , Xin Liao , Wenjun Liao , Sichuan Zhang , Shaoting Zhang , Guotai Wang

Although supervised learning has enabled high performance for image segmentation, it requires a large amount of labeled training data, which can be difficult to obtain in the medical imaging field. Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods…