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Contrastive language-image Pre-training (CLIP) [13] can leverage large datasets of unlabeled Image-Text pairs, which have demonstrated impressive performance in various downstream tasks. Given that annotating medical data is time-consuming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-13 Yuhao Wang

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in clinical decision making, treatment planning, and disease tracking. However, it still faces two major challenges. On the one hand, there is often a ``soft boundary'' between foreground…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Mengqi Lei , Haochen Wu , Xinhua Lv , Xin Wang

Multimodal representation learning, exemplified by multimodal contrastive learning (MMCL) using image-text pairs, aims to learn powerful representations by aligning cues across modalities. This approach relies on the core assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yichao Cai , Yuhang Liu , Erdun Gao , Tianjiao Jiang , Zhen Zhang , Anton van den Hengel , Javen Qinfeng Shi

Cross-modality image estimation involves the generation of images of one medical imaging modality from that of another modality. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to be useful in identifying, characterising and extracting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-07 Azin Shokraei Fard , David C. Reutens , Viktor Vegh

The Classification of medical images and illustrations in the literature aims to label a medical image according to the modality it was produced or label an illustration according to its production attributes. It is an essential and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Jianpeng Zhang , Yong Xia , Qi Wu , Yutong Xie

For medical image segmentation, contrastive learning is the dominant practice to improve the quality of visual representations by contrasting semantically similar and dissimilar pairs of samples. This is enabled by the observation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Chenyu You , Weicheng Dai , Yifei Min , Fenglin Liu , David A. Clifton , S Kevin Zhou , Lawrence Hamilton Staib , James S Duncan

Medical image interpretation using deep learning has shown promise but often requires extensive expert-annotated datasets. To reduce this annotation burden, we develop an Image-Graph Contrastive Learning framework that pairs chest X-rays…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Sameer Khanna , Daniel Michael , Marinka Zitnik , Pranav Rajpurkar

Language-supervised vision models have recently attracted great attention in computer vision. A common approach to build such models is to use contrastive learning on paired data across the two modalities, as exemplified by Contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Ryumei Nakada , Halil Ibrahim Gulluk , Zhun Deng , Wenlong Ji , James Zou , Linjun Zhang

We present a unified vision-language framework tailored for ENT endoscopy image analysis that simultaneously tackles three clinically-relevant tasks: image classification, image-to-image retrieval, and text-to-image retrieval. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Y Hop Nguyen , Doan Anh Phan Huu , Trung Thai Tran , Nhat Nam Mai , Van Toi Giap , Thao Thi Phuong Dao , Trung-Nghia Le

Learning medical visual representations from image-report pairs through joint learning has garnered increasing research attention due to its potential to alleviate the data scarcity problem in the medical domain. The primary challenges stem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jun Wang , Lixing Zhu , Xiaohan Yu , Abhir Bhalerao , Yulan He

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) is a popular method for leaning graph representations by maximizing the consistency of features across augmented views. Traditional GCL methods utilize single-perspective i.e. data or model-perspective)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zelin Yao , Chuang Liu , Xueqi Ma , Mukun Chen , Jia Wu , Xiantao Cai , Bo Du , Wenbin Hu

Accurately discriminating progressive stages of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is crucial for early diagnosis and prevention. It often involves multiple imaging modalities to understand the complex pathology of AD, however, acquiring a complete…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Seunghun Baek , Jaeyoon Sim , Guorong Wu , Won Hwa Kim

Universal, transferable whole-slide image (WSI) representations are central to computational pathology. Incorporating multiple markers (e.g., immunohistochemistry, IHC) alongside H&E enriches H&E-based features with diverse, biologically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Yizhi Zhang , Lei Fan , Zhulin Tao , Donglin Di , Yang Song , Sidong Liu , Cong Cong

Existed pre-training methods either focus on single-modal tasks or multi-modal tasks, and cannot effectively adapt to each other. They can only utilize single-modal data (i.e. text or image) or limited multi-modal data (i.e. image-text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Wei Li , Can Gao , Guocheng Niu , Xinyan Xiao , Hao Liu , Jiachen Liu , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Unsupervised learning of disease subtypes from multi-omics data presents a significant opportunity for advancing personalized medicine. We introduce OmicsCL, a modular contrastive learning framework that jointly embeds heterogeneous omics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Atahan Karagoz

Cross-modal retrieval has become a highlighted research topic for retrieval across multimedia data such as image and text. A two-stage learning framework is widely adopted by most existing methods based on Deep Neural Network (DNN): The…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Yuxin Peng , Jinwei Qi , Xin Huang , Yuxin Yuan

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in medical image analysis. However, their application in gastrointestinal endoscopy is currently hindered by two critical limitations: the misalignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Huan Zheng , Yucheng Zhou , Tianyi Yan , Dubing Chen , Hongbo Lu , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Pai Peng , Jianbing Shen

With the arrival of the big data era, more and more data are becoming readily available in various real-world applications and those data are usually highly heterogeneous. Taking computational medicine as an example, we have both Electronic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Xi Sheryl Zhang , Jingyuan Chou , Fei Wang

Accurate interpretation of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals is crucial for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases. Recent multimodal approaches that integrate ECGs with accompanying clinical reports show strong potential, but they still face two…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Ziwei Niu , Hao Sun , Shujun Bian , Xihong Yang , Lanfen Lin , Yuxin Liu , Yueming Jin

Considering the instance-level discriminative ability, contrastive learning methods, including MoCo and SimCLR, have been adapted from the original image representation learning task to solve the self-supervised skeleton-based action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Mengyuan Liu , Hong Liu , Tianyu Guo