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In this paper, we propose a new approach to applying point-level annotations for weakly-supervised panoptic segmentation. Instead of the dense pixel-level labels used by fully supervised methods, point-level labels only provide a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Junsong Fan , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Tieniu Tan

Scribble annotations significantly reduce the cost and labor required for dense labeling in large medical datasets with complex anatomical structures. However, current scribble-supervised learning methods are limited in their ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Luyi Qiu , Tristan Till , Xiaobao Guo , Adams Wai-Kin Kong

Recently, machine learning-based semantic segmentation algorithms have demonstrated their potential to accurately segment regions and contours in medical images, allowing the precise location of anatomical structures and abnormalities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yifei Wang , Chuhong Zhu

Curating fully annotated datasets for medical image segmentation is labour-intensive and expertise-demanding. To alleviate this problem, prior studies have explored scribble annotations for weakly supervised segmentation. Existing solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ke Zhang , Bomin Wang , Hangqi Zhou , Xiahai Zhuang

Weakly supervised segmentation is an important problem in medical image analysis due to the high cost of pixelwise annotation. Prior methods, while often focusing on weak labels of 2D images, exploit few structural cues of volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Qian He , Shuailin Li , Xuming He

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in medical imaging. Although supervised learning techniques have proven to be effective in performing this task, they heavily depend on large amounts of annotated training data. The recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Ron Keuth , Lasse Hansen , Maren Balks , Ronja Jäger , Anne-Nele Schröder , Ludger Tüshaus , Mattias Heinrich

Pixel-wise segmentation is one of the most data and annotation hungry tasks in our field. Providing representative and accurate annotations is often mission-critical especially for challenging medical applications. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Simon Reiß , Constantin Seibold , Alexander Freytag , Erik Rodner , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Deep learning-based image manipulation localization (IML) methods have achieved remarkable performance in recent years, but typically rely on large-scale pixel-level annotated datasets. To address the challenge of acquiring high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Songlin Li , Guofeng Yu , Zhiqing Guo , Yunfeng Diao , Dan Ma , Gaobo Yang

Large, fine-grained image segmentation datasets, annotated at pixel-level, are difficult to obtain, particularly in medical imaging, where annotations also require expert knowledge. Weakly-supervised learning can train models by relying on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Gabriele Valvano , Andrea Leo , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Producing densely annotated data is a difficult and tedious task for medical imaging applications. To address this problem, we propose a novel approach to generate supervision for semi-supervised semantic segmentation. We argue that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-10 Constantin Seibold , Simon Reiß , Jens Kleesiek , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Pixel-level dense labeling is both resource-intensive and time-consuming, whereas weak labels such as scribble present a more feasible alternative to full annotations. However, training segmentation networks with weak supervision from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Ke Zhang , Vishal M. Patel

Recently, weakly-supervised image segmentation using weak annotations like scribbles has gained great attention, since such annotations are much easier to obtain compared to time-consuming and label-intensive labeling at the pixel/voxel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Qiuhui Chen , Yi Hong

Segmentation is a fundamental process in microscopic cell image analysis. With the advent of recent advances in deep learning, more accurate and high-throughput cell segmentation has become feasible. However, most existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Hyeonsoo Lee , Won-Ki Jeong

Medical image segmentation based on deep learning is often faced with the problems of insufficient datasets and long time-consuming labeling. In this paper, we introduce the self-supervised method MAE(Masked Autoencoders) into knee joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yuhan Xie , Kexin Jiang , Zhiyong Zhang , Shaolong Chen , Xiaodong Zhang , Changzhen Qiu

Segmentation is one of the most important tasks in the medical imaging pipeline as it influences a number of image-based decisions. To be effective, fully supervised segmentation approaches require large amounts of manually annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Tyler Ward , Aaron Moseley , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

Medical image segmentation typically demands extensive dense annotations for model training, which is both time-consuming and skill-intensive. To mitigate this burden, exemplar-based medical image segmentation methods have been introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Qing En , Yuhong Guo

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

Medical image segmentation annotations exhibit variations among experts due to the ambiguous boundaries of segmented objects and backgrounds in medical images. Although using multiple annotations for each image in the fully-supervised has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Shuai Wang , Tengjin Weng , Jingyi Wang , Yang Shen , Zhidong Zhao , Yixiu Liu , Pengfei Jiao , Zhiming Cheng , Yaqi Wang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging task as it only takes image-level information as supervision for training but produces pixel-level predictions for testing. To address such a challenging task, most recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Bingfeng Zhang , Jimin Xiao , Yunchao Wei , Mingjie Sun , Kaizhu Huang

Traditional supervised medical image segmentation models require large amounts of labeled data for training; however, obtaining such large-scale labeled datasets in the real world is extremely challenging. Recent semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yunyao Lu , Yihang Wu , Reem Kateb , Ahmad Chaddad