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Medical imaging tasks are very challenging due to the lack of publicly available labeled datasets. Hence, it is difficult to achieve high performance with existing deep-learning models as they require a massive labeled dataset to be trained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Anubhav Gupta , Islam Osman , Mohamed S. Shehata , John W. Braun

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) have emerged as a dominant strategy for self-supervised representation learning in natural images, where models are pre-trained to reconstruct masked patches with a pixel-wise mean squared error (MSE) between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-16 Chetan Madan , Aarjav Satia , Soumen Basu , Pankaj Gupta , Usha Dutta , Chetan Arora

Ultrasound imaging is one of the most widely used diagnostic modalities, offering real-time, radiation-free assessment across diverse clinical domains. However, interpretation of ultrasound images remains challenging due to high noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Youssef Megahed , Robin Ducharme , Aylin Erman , Mark Walker , Steven Hawken , Adrian D. C. Chan

The development of deep learning models in medical image analysis is majorly limited by the lack of large-sized and well-annotated datasets. Unsupervised learning does not require labels and is more suitable for solving medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Zi'an Xu , Yin Dai , Fayu Liu , Weibing Chen , Yue Liu , Lifu Shi , Sheng Liu , Yuhang Zhou

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

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are widely used deep generative models capable of learning unsupervised latent representations of data. Such representations are often difficult to interpret or control. We consider the problem of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Jack Klys , Jake Snell , Richard Zemel

Cancer is one of the deadliest diseases worldwide. Accurate diagnosis and classification of cancer subtypes are indispensable for effective clinical treatment. Promising results on automatic cancer subtyping systems have been published…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Ziwei Yang , Lingwei Zhu , Zheng Chen , Ming Huang , Naoaki Ono , MD Altaf-Ul-Amin , Shigehiko Kanaya

This work presents a novel self-supervised pre-training method to learn efficient representations without labels on histopathology medical images utilizing magnification factors. Other state-of-theart works mainly focus on fully supervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 Prakash Chandra Chhipa , Richa Upadhyay , Gustav Grund Pihlgren , Rajkumar Saini , Seiichi Uchida , Marcus Liwicki

Masked Image Modeling (MIM)-based models, such as SdAE, CAE, GreenMIM, and MixAE, have explored different strategies to enhance the performance of Masked Autoencoders (MAE) by modifying prediction, loss functions, or incorporating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Srinivasa Rao Nandam , Sara Atito , Zhenhua Feng , Josef Kittler , Muhammad Awais

Finding an interpretable non-redundant representation of real-world data is one of the key problems in Machine Learning. Biological neural networks are known to solve this problem quite well in unsupervised manner, yet unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Denis Kuzminykh , Laida Kushnareva , Timofey Grigoryev , Alexander Zatolokin

We address the challenge of training Vision Transformers (ViTs) when labeled data is scarce but unlabeled data is abundant. We propose Semi-Supervised Masked Autoencoder (SSMAE), a framework that jointly optimizes masked image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Atik Faysal , Mohammad Rostami , Reihaneh Gh. Roshan , Nikhil Muralidhar , Huaxia Wang

The hematology analytics used for detection and classification of small blood components is a significant challenge. In particular, when objects exists as small pixel-sized entities in a large context of similar objects. Deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 H. Martin Gillis , Ming Hill , Paul Hollensen , Alan Fine , Thomas Trappenberg

Unsupervised learning methods have become increasingly important in deep learning due to their demonstrated large utilization of datasets and higher accuracy in computer vision and natural language processing tasks. There is a growing trend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Guoxin Wang , Qingyuan Wang , Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer , Avishek Nag , Deepu John

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) have been shown to be effective in pre-training Vision Transformers (ViTs) for natural and medical image analysis problems. By reconstructing missing pixel/voxel information in visible patches, a ViT encoder can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Pengfei Gu , Huimin Li , Yejia Zhang , Chaoli Wang , Danny Z. Chen

Vision Transformer (ViT) suffers from data scarcity in semi-supervised learning (SSL). To alleviate this issue, inspired by masked autoencoder (MAE), which is a data-efficient self-supervised learner, we propose Semi-MAE, a pure ViT-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Haojie Yu , Kang Zhao , Xiaoming Xu

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) presents a complementary alternative to supervised learning for brain tumor segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), particularly when annotated datasets are limited, costly, or inconsistent. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Gerard Comas-Quiles , Carles Garcia-Cabrera , Julia Dietlmeier , Noel E. O'Connor , Ferran Marques

Self-supervised learning excels in learning representations from large amounts of unlabeled data, demonstrating success across multiple data modalities. Yet, extending self-supervised learning to new modalities is non-trivial because the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Johnathan Xie , Yoonho Lee , Annie S. Chen , Chelsea Finn

This paper shows that masked autoencoders (MAE) are scalable self-supervised learners for computer vision. Our MAE approach is simple: we mask random patches of the input image and reconstruct the missing pixels. It is based on two core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Kaiming He , Xinlei Chen , Saining Xie , Yanghao Li , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick

We present a new flavor of Variational Autoencoder (VAE) that interpolates seamlessly between unsupervised, semi-supervised and fully supervised learning domains. We show that unlabeled datapoints not only boost unsupervised tasks, but also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Felix Berkhahn , Richard Keys , Wajih Ouertani , Nikhil Shetty , Dominik Geißler

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) achieve impressive performance in image classification tasks, yet the internal representations they learn remain less understood. This work started as an attempt to understand the strong downstream classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Anika Shrivastava , Renu Rameshan , Samar Agnihotri