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Deformable image registration is crucial for aligning medical images in a nonlinear fashion across different modalities, allowing for precise spatial correspondence between varying anatomical structures. This paper presents NestedMorph, a…

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Intelligent medical diagnosis has shown remarkable progress based on the large-scale datasets with precise annotations. However, fewer labeled images are available due to significantly expensive cost for annotating data by experts. To fully…

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Background: Voxel-based analysis (VBA) for population level radiotherapy (RT) outcomes modeling requires topology preserving inter-patient deformable image registration (DIR) that preserves tumors on moving images while avoiding unrealistic…

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In the era of open science, public datasets, along with common experimental protocol, help in the process of designing and validating data science algorithms; they also contribute to ease reproductibility and fair comparison between…

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Applying artificial intelligence techniques in medical imaging is one of the most promising areas in medicine. However, most of the recent success in this area highly relies on large amounts of carefully annotated data, whereas annotating…

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Due to the scarcity of labeled data, self-supervised learning (SSL) has gained much attention in 3D medical image segmentation, by extracting semantic representations from unlabeled data. Among SSL strategies, Masked image modeling (MIM)…

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Medical referring image segmentation (MRIS) requires pixel-level masks aligned with textual descriptions of anatomical locations, making annotation costly in low-label regimes. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) can mitigate this burden by…

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With the increasing number of CT scan examinations, there is a need for automated methods such as organ segmentation, anomaly detection and report generation to assist radiologists in managing their increasing workload. Multi-label…

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The adoption of Vision Transformers (ViTs) based architectures represents a significant advancement in 3D Medical Image (MI) segmentation, surpassing traditional Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models by enhancing global contextual…

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Collaborative training across multiple institutions is becoming essential for building reliable medical image segmentation models. However, privacy regulations, data silos, and uneven data availability prevent hospitals from sharing raw…

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A large labeled dataset is a key to the success of supervised deep learning, but for medical image segmentation, it is highly challenging to obtain sufficient annotated images for model training. In many scenarios, unannotated images are…

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Semi-supervised learning (SSL), thanks to the significant reduction of data annotation costs, has been an active research topic for large-scale 3D scene understanding. However, the existing SSL-based methods suffer from severe training…

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The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has recently gained popularity in the field of image segmentation due to its impressive capabilities in various segmentation tasks and its prompt-based interface. However, recent studies and individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Junde Wu , Wei Ji , Yuanpei Liu , Huazhu Fu , Min Xu , Yanwu Xu , Yueming Jin

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved significant progress in medical image segmentation (SSMIS) through effective utilization of limited labeled data. While current SSL methods for medical images predominantly rely on consistency…

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Identifying new disease-related patterns in medical imaging data with the help of machine learning enlarges the vocabulary of recognizable findings. This supports diagnostic and prognostic assessment. However, image appearance varies not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jeanny Pan , Philipp Seeböck , Christoph Fürböck , Svitlana Pochepnia , Jennifer Straub , Lucian Beer , Helmut Prosch , Georg Langs

Recent trends in semi-supervised learning have significantly boosted the performance of 3D semi-supervised medical image segmentation. Compared with 2D images, 3D medical volumes involve information from different directions, e.g.,…

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Semi-supervised learning in medical image segmentation leverages unlabeled data to reduce annotation burdens through consistency learning. However, current methods struggle with class imbalance and high uncertainty from pathology…

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