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Pixel-level vision tasks, such as semantic segmentation, require extensive and high-quality annotated data, which is costly to obtain. Semi-supervised semantic segmentation (SSSS) has emerged as a solution to alleviate the labeling burden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Danhui Chen , Ziquan Liu , Chuxi Yang , Dan Wang , Yan Yan , Yi Xu , Xiangyang Ji

Recently proposed methods for weakly-supervised semantic segmentation have achieved impressive performance in predicting pixel classes despite being trained with only image labels which lack positional information. Because image annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Lyndon Chan , Mahdi S. Hosseini , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) aims to train segmentation models using image data with only image-level supervision. Since precise pixel-level annotations are not accessible, existing methods typically focus on producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Ci-Siang Lin , Chien-Yi Wang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Min-Hung Chen

Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) relies on class activation maps (CAMs) for pseudo labels generation. As CAMs only highlight the most discriminative regions of objects, the generated pseudo labels are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Weixuan Sun , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes

We propose a straightforward yet highly effective few-shot fine-tuning strategy for adapting the Segment Anything (SAM) to anatomical segmentation tasks in medical images. Our novel approach revolves around reformulating the mask decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Weiyi Xie , Nathalie Willems , Shubham Patil , Yang Li , Mayank Kumar

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) for medical image segmentation is a challenging yet highly practical task, which reduces reliance on large-scale labeled dataset by leveraging unlabeled samples. Among SSL techniques, the weak-to-strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Shiao Xie , Hongyi Wang , Ziwei Niu , Hao Sun , Shuyi Ouyang , Yen-Wei Chen , Lanfen Lin

Medical image processing usually requires a model trained with carefully crafted datasets due to unique image characteristics and domain-specific challenges, especially in pathology. Primitive detection and segmentation in digitized tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Abu Bakor Hayat Arnob , Xiangxue Wang , Yiping Jiao , Xiao Gan , Wenlong Ming , Jun Xu

In this paper, we develop a new weakly-supervised learning algorithm to learn to segment cancerous regions in histopathology images. Our work is under a multiple instance learning framework (MIL) with a new formulation, deep weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Zhipeng Jia , Xingyi Huang , Eric I-Chao Chang , Yan Xu

End-to-end medical image segmentation is of great value for computer-aided diagnosis dominated by task-specific models, usually suffering from poor generalization. With recent breakthroughs brought by the segment anything model (SAM) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xian Lin , Yangyang Xiang , Li Yu , Zengqiang Yan

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) is challenging, particularly when image-level labels are used to supervise pixel level prediction. To bridge their gap, a Class Activation Map (CAM) is usually generated to provide pixel level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Weixuan Sun , Jing Zhang , Zheyuan Liu , Yiran Zhong , Nick Barnes

In the era of information explosion, efficiently leveraging large-scale unlabeled data while minimizing the reliance on high-quality pixel-level annotations remains a critical challenge in the field of medical imaging. Semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Hongjie Zhu , Xiwei Liu , Rundong Xue , Zeyu Zhang , Yong Xu , Daji Ergu , Ying Cai , Yang Zhao

Despite the remarkable performance of supervised medical image segmentation models, relying on a large amount of labeled data is impractical in real-world situations. Semi-supervised learning approaches aim to alleviate this challenge using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yunyao Lu , Yihang Wu , Ahmad Chaddad , Tareef Daqqaq , Reem Kateb

We present a weakly supervised deep learning method to perform instance segmentation of cells present in microscopy images. Annotation of biomedical images in the lab can be scarce, incomplete, and inaccurate. This is of concern when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Fidel A. Guerrero-Peña , Pedro D. Marrero Fernandez , Tsang Ing Ren , Alexandre Cunha

Liver tumor segmentation is essential for computer-aided diagnosis, surgical planning, and prognosis evaluation. However, obtaining and maintaining a large-scale dataset with dense annotations is challenging. Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Shiyun Chen , Li Lin , Pujin Cheng , Xiaoying Tang

Lesion segmentation in medical imaging serves as an effective tool for assessing tumor sizes and monitoring changes in growth. However, not only is manual lesion segmentation time-consuming, but it is also expensive and requires expert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Vatsal Agarwal , Youbao Tang , Jing Xiao , Ronald M. Summers

In digital pathology, segmenting densely distributed objects like glands and nuclei is crucial for downstream analysis. Since detailed pixel-wise annotations are very time-consuming, we need semi-supervised segmentation methods that can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-18 Meilong Xu , Xiaoling Hu , Saumya Gupta , Shahira Abousamra , Chao Chen

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels is a challenging task. Mainstream approaches follow a multi-stage framework and suffer from high training costs. In this paper, we explore the potential of Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yuqi Lin , Minghao Chen , Wenxiao Wang , Boxi Wu , Ke Li , Binbin Lin , Haifeng Liu , Xiaofei He

Multi-modal 3D semantic segmentation is vital for applications such as autonomous driving and virtual reality (VR). To effectively deploy these models in real-world scenarios, it is essential to employ cross-domain adaptation techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Mingyu Yang , Jitong Lu , Hun-Seok Kim

Automatic histopathology image segmentation is crucial to disease analysis. Limited available labeled data hinders the generalizability of trained models under the fully supervised setting. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) based on generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Hongxiao Wang , Hao Zheng , Jianxu Chen , Lin Yang , Yizhe Zhang , Danny Z. Chen

Segmentation is a fundamental problem in surgical scene analysis using artificial intelligence. However, the inherent data scarcity in this domain makes it challenging to adapt traditional segmentation techniques for this task. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jay N. Paranjape , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Shameema Sikder , S. Swaroop Vedula , Vishal M. Patel