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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

Semantic segmentation is a classic computer vision task with multiple applications, which includes medical and remote sensing image analysis. Despite recent advances with deep-based approaches, labeling samples (pixels) for training models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Pedro H. T. Gama , Hugo Oliveira , José Marcato Junior , Jefersson A. dos Santos

Few-shot video object segmentation aims to reduce annotation costs; however, existing methods still require abundant dense frame annotations for training, which are scarce in the medical domain. We investigate an extremely low-data regime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Zixuan Zheng , Yilei Shi , Chunlei Li , Jingliang Hu , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Lichao Mou

Recently deep neural networks, which require a large amount of annotated samples, have been widely applied in nuclei instance segmentation of H\&E stained pathology images. However, it is inefficient and unnecessary to label all pixels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Wei Lou , Haofeng Li , Guanbin Li , Xiaoguang Han , Xiang Wan

Frame-by-frame annotation of bounding boxes by clinical experts is often required to train fully supervised object detection models on medical video data. We propose a method for improving object detection in medical videos through weak…

Deep learning in the presence of noisy annotations has been studied extensively in classification, but much less in segmentation tasks. In this work, we study the learning dynamics of deep segmentation networks trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Sheng Liu , Kangning Liu , Weicheng Zhu , Yiqiu Shen , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

Current state-of-the-art open-vocabulary segmentation methods typically rely on image-mask-text triplet annotations for supervision. However, acquiring such detailed annotations is labour-intensive and poses scalability challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Zhaoqing Wang , Xiaobo Xia , Ziye Chen , Xiao He , Yandong Guo , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

Dense annotations, such as segmentation masks, are expensive and time-consuming to obtain, especially for 3D medical images where expert voxel-wise labeling is required. Weakly supervised approaches aim to address this limitation, but often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Richard Petersen , Fredrik Kahl , Jennifer Alvén

Background and objectives: Colorectal cancer histopathological grading depends on accurate segmentation of glandular structures. Current deep learning approaches rely on large scale pixel level annotations that are labor intensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Hikmat Khan , Wei Chen , Muhammad Khalid Khan Niazi

Unavailability of large training datasets is a bottleneck that needs to be overcome to realize the true potential of deep learning in histopathology applications. Although slide digitization via whole slide imaging scanners has increased…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Komal Mariam , Osama Mohammed Afzal , Wajahat Hussain , Muhammad Umar Javed , Amber Kiyani , Nasir Rajpoot , Syed Ali Khurram , Hassan Aqeel Khan

Segmenting an image into its parts is a frequent preprocess for high-level vision tasks such as image editing. However, annotating masks for supervised training is expensive. Weakly-supervised and unsupervised methods exist, but they depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Xingzhe He , Bastian Wandt , Helge Rhodin

Medical image segmentation is a key task in the imaging workflow, influencing many image-based decisions. Traditional, fully-supervised segmentation models rely on large amounts of labeled training data, typically obtained through manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Tyler Ward , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

Although semi-supervised learning has made significant advances in the field of medical image segmentation, fully annotating a volumetric sample slice by slice remains a costly and time-consuming task. Even worse, most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Ke Yan , Qing Cai , Fan Zhang , Ziyan Cao , Zhi Liu

As an essential indicator for cancer progression and treatment response, tumor size is often measured following the response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (RECIST) guideline in CT slices. By marking each lesion with its longest axis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Lianyu Zhou , Dong Wei , Donghuan Lu , Wei Xue , Liansheng Wang , Yefeng Zheng

Many successful methods developed for medical image analysis that are based on machine learning use supervised learning approaches, which often require large datasets annotated by experts to achieve high accuracy. However, medical data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Banafshe Felfeliyan , Abhilash Hareendranathan , Gregor Kuntze , David Cornell , Nils D. Forkert , Jacob L. Jaremko , Janet L. Ronsky

Segmentation of objects of interest is one of the central tasks in medical image analysis, which is indispensable for quantitative analysis. When developing machine-learning based methods for automated segmentation, manual annotations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Hang Li , Dong Wei , Shilei Cao , Kai Ma , Liansheng Wang , Yefeng Zheng

Assessing the presence of potentially malignant lymph nodes aids in estimating cancer progression, and identifying surrounding benign lymph nodes can assist in determining potential metastatic pathways for cancer. For quantitative analysis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Litingyu Wang , Yijie Qu , Xiangde Luo , Wenjun Liao , Shichuan Zhang , Guotai Wang

Lesion segmentation on nasal endoscopic images is challenging due to its complex lesion features. Fully-supervised deep learning methods achieve promising performance with pixel-level annotations but impose a significant annotation burden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Pengyu Jie , Wanquan Liu , Chenqiang Gao , Yihui Wen , Rui He , Weiping Wen , Pengcheng Li , Jintao Zhang , Deyu Meng

Segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image analysis. However, most existing methods focus on primary region extraction and ignore edge information, which is useful for obtaining accurate segmentation. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Zhijie Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Hang Dai , Jianbing Shen , Yanwei Pang , Ling Shao

Standard segmentation of medical images based on full-supervised convolutional networks demands accurate dense annotations. Such learning framework is built on laborious manual annotation with restrict demands for expertise, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Liyan Sun , Jianxiong Wu , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang , Guisheng Wang , Yizhou Yu