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Unsupervised aspect detection (UAD) aims at automatically extracting interpretable aspects and identifying aspect-specific segments (such as sentences) from online reviews. However, recent deep learning-based topic models, specifically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Tian Shi , Liuqing Li , Ping Wang , Chandan K. Reddy

Brain tumors are increasingly prevalent, characterized by the uncontrolled spread of aberrant tissues in the brain, with almost 700,000 new cases diagnosed globally each year. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is commonly used for the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-23 Javed Hossain , Md. Touhidul Islam , Md. Taufiqul Haque Khan Tusar

Early detection and accurate diagnosis are essential to improving patient outcomes. The use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for tumor detection has shown promise, but existing models often suffer from overparameterization, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Muhammad Irfan , Anum Nawaz , Riku Klen , Abdulhamit Subasi , Tomi Westerlund , Wei Chen

A brain tumour is a mass or cluster of abnormal cells in the brain, which has the possibility of becoming life-threatening because of its ability to invade neighbouring tissues and also form metastases. An accurate diagnosis is essential…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-28 Soumick Chatterjee , Faraz Ahmed Nizamani , Andreas Nürnberger , Oliver Speck

Contrastive learning is a discriminative approach that aims at grouping similar samples closer and diverse samples far from each other. It it an efficient technique to train an encoder generating distinguishable and informative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Qing Chen , Jian Zhang

Automatic delineation of organ-at-risk (OAR) and gross-tumor-volume (GTV) is of great significance for radiotherapy planning. However, it is a challenging task to learn powerful representations for accurate delineation under limited pixel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-21 Jiacheng Wang , Xiaomeng Li , Yiming Han , Jing Qin , Liansheng Wang , Zhou Qichao

Brain tumors analysis is important in timely diagnosis and effective treatment to cure patients. Tumor analysis is challenging because of tumor morphology like size, location, texture, and heteromorphic appearance in the medical images. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Mirza Mumtaz Zahoor , Shahzad Ahmad Qureshi , Saddam Hussain Khan , Asifullah Khan

Contrastive self-supervised learning methods famously produce high quality transferable representations by learning invariances to different data augmentations. Invariances established during pre-training can be interpreted as strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Ruchika Chavhan , Henry Gouk , Jan Stuehmer , Calum Heggan , Mehrdad Yaghoobi , Timothy Hospedales

Unsupervised learning has been a long-standing goal of machine learning and is especially important for medical image analysis, where the learning can compensate for the scarcity of labeled datasets. A promising subclass of unsupervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Ozan Ciga , Tony Xu , Anne L. Martel

Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) is a widely used medical imaging modality for breast cancer screening and diagnosis, offering higher spatial resolution and greater detail through its 3D-like breast volume imaging capability. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Yuexi Du , Regina J. Hooley , John Lewin , Nicha C. Dvornek

Anomaly detection in medical imaging is to distinguish the relevant biomarkers of diseases from those of normal tissues. Deep supervised learning methods have shown potentials in various detection tasks, but its performances would be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-01 Byungjai Kim , Kinam Kwon , Changheun Oh , Hyunwook Park

We propose a novel semi-supervised image segmentation method that simultaneously optimizes a supervised segmentation and an unsupervised reconstruction objectives. The reconstruction objective uses an attention mechanism that separates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Shuai Chen , Gerda Bortsova , Antonio Garcia-Uceda Juarez , Gijs van Tulder , Marleen de Bruijne

Classification-based image retrieval systems are built by training convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on a relevant classification problem and using the distance in the resulting feature space as a similarity metric. However, in practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Maxim Pisov , Gleb Makarchuk , Valery Kostjuchenko , Alexandra Dalechina , Andrey Golanov , Mikhail Belyaev

Phyllodes tumors (PTs) are rare fibroepithelial breast lesions that are difficult to classify preoperatively due to their radiological similarity to benign fibroadenomas. This often leads to unnecessary surgical excisions. To address this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Farhan Fuad Abir , Abigail Elliott Daly , Kyle Anderman , Tolga Ozmen , Laura J. Brattain

Brain tumor is considered as one of the deadliest and most common form of cancer both in children and in adults. Consequently, determining the correct type of brain tumor in early stages is of significant importance to devise a precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Parnian Afshar , Arash Mohammadi , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Anomaly detection is a critical task in computer vision with profound implications for medical imaging, where identifying pathologies early can directly impact patient outcomes. While recent unsupervised anomaly detection approaches show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Le Dong , Qinzhong Tan , Chunlei Li , Jingliang Hu , Yilei Shi , Weisheng Dong , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Lichao Mou

Homologous anatomical landmarks between medical scans are instrumental in quantitative assessment of image registration quality in various clinical applications, such as MRI-ultrasound registration for tissue shift correction in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Soorena Salari , Amirhossein Rasoulian , Hassan Rivaz , Yiming Xiao

This paper focuses on a novel approach for false-positive reduction (FPR) of nodule candidates in Computer-aided detection (CADe) systems following the suspicious lesions detection stage. Contrary to typical decisions in medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-11 Ivan Drokin , Elena Ericheva

High annotation costs are a substantial bottleneck in applying modern deep learning architectures to clinically relevant medical use cases, substantiating the need for novel algorithms to learn from unlabeled data. In this work, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Aiham Taleb , Matthias Kirchler , Remo Monti , Christoph Lippert

In Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), various pretext tasks are designed for learning feature representations through contrastive loss. However, previous studies have shown that this loss is less tolerant to semantically similar samples due to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Shanshan Wang , Soumya Tripathy , Annamaria Mesaros