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Semi-supervised learning for medical image segmentation is an important area of research for alleviating the huge cost associated with the construction of reliable large-scale annotations in the medical domain. Recent semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Chae Eun Lee , Hyelim Park , Yeong-Gil Shin , Minyoung Chung

Recent advances in deep learning algorithms have led to significant benefits for solving many medical image analysis problems. Training deep learning models commonly requires large datasets with expert-labeled annotations. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Banafshe Felfeliyan , Abhilash Hareendranathan , Gregor Kuntze , Stephanie Wichuk , Nils D. Forkert , Jacob L. Jaremko , Janet L. Ronsky

Weak-strong consistency learning strategies are widely employed in semi-supervised medical image segmentation to train models by leveraging limited labeled data and enforcing weak-to-strong consistency. However, existing methods primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Chaowei Chen , Xiang Zhang , Honglie Guo , Shunfang Wang

Traditional supervised learning methods have historically encountered certain constraints in medical image segmentation due to the challenging collection process, high labeling cost, low signal-to-noise ratio, and complex features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yifei Chen , Chenyan Zhang , Yifan Ke , Yiyu Huang , Xuezhou Dai , Feiwei Qin , Yongquan Zhang , Xiaodong Zhang , Changmiao Wang

Fine-grained image classification has witnessed significant advancements with the advent of deep learning and computer vision technologies. However, the scarcity of detailed annotations remains a major challenge, especially in scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Bowen Tian , Songning Lai , Lujundong Li , Zhihao Shuai , Runwei Guan , Tian Wu , Yutao Yue

Most of the state-of-the-art semantic segmentation reported in recent years is based on fully supervised deep learning in the medical domain. How?ever, the high-quality annotated datasets require intense labor and domain knowledge,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-25 Pingping Dai , Haiming Zhu , Shuang Ge , Ruihan Zhang , Xiang Qian , Xi Li , Kehong Yuan

Domain Adaptation (DA) is crucial for robust deployment of medical image segmentation models when applied to new clinical centers with significant domain shifts. Source-Free Domain Adaptation (SFDA) is appealing as it can deal with privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Xinya Liu , Jianghao Wu , Tao Lu , Shaoting Zhang , Guotai Wang

Supervised learning-based segmentation methods typically require a large number of annotated training data to generalize well at test time. In medical applications, curating such datasets is not a favourable option because acquiring a large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Krishna Chaitanya , Neerav Karani , Christian F. Baumgartner , Ertunc Erdil , Anton Becker , Olivio Donati , Ender Konukoglu

Scribble-supervised methods have emerged to mitigate the prohibitive annotation burden in medical image segmentation. However, the inherent sparsity of these annotations introduces significant ambiguity, which results in noisy pseudo-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Hoang-Loc Cao , Dat T. Chung , Mai-Anh Vu , Thanh-Minh Nguyen , Minh Le , Phat K. Huynh , Ulas Bagci

Most state-of-the-art instance segmentation methods have to be trained on densely annotated images. While difficult in general, this requirement is especially daunting for biomedical images, where domain expertise is often required for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Adrian Wolny , Qin Yu , Constantin Pape , Anna Kreshuk

Creating fully annotated labels for medical image segmentation is prohibitively time-intensive and costly, emphasizing the necessity for innovative approaches that minimize reliance on detailed annotations. Scribble annotations offer a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xiao Zhang , Shaoxuan Wu , Peilin Zhang , Zhuo Jin , Xiaosong Xiong , Qirong Bu , Jingkun Chen , Jun Feng

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) aims to produce pixel-wise class predictions with only image-level labels for training. To this end, previous methods adopt the common pipeline: they generate pseudo masks from class activation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Sungpil Kho , Pilhyeon Lee , Wonyoung Lee , Minsong Ki , Hyeran Byun

Using deep learning, we now have the ability to create exceptionally good semantic segmentation systems; however, collecting the prerequisite pixel-wise annotations for training images remains expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Aneesh Rangnekar , Christopher Kanan , Matthew Hoffman

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yuchen Li , Zhen Zhao , Yi Liu , Luping Zhou

Training machine learning models to segment tumors and other anomalies in medical images is an important step for developing diagnostic tools but generally requires manually annotated ground truth segmentations, which necessitates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Jay J. Yoo , Khashayar Namdar , Farzad Khalvati

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

Surgical scene segmentation is fundamentally crucial for prompting cognitive assistance in robotic surgery. However, pixel-wise annotating surgical video in a frame-by-frame manner is expensive and time consuming. To greatly reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Yang Yu , Zixu Zhao , Yueming Jin , Guangyong Chen , Qi Dou , Pheng-Ann Heng

Both limited annotation and domain shift are prevalent challenges in medical image segmentation. Traditional semi-supervised segmentation and unsupervised domain adaptation methods address one of these issues separately. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Qinghe Ma , Jian Zhang , Lei Qi , Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Semi-supervised learning has the potential to improve the data-efficiency of training data-hungry deep neural networks, which is especially important for medical image analysis tasks where labeled data is scarce. In this work, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Boon Peng Yap , Beng Koon Ng

As research interests in medical image analysis become increasingly fine-grained, the cost for extensive annotation also rises. One feasible way to reduce the cost is to annotate with coarse-grained superclass labels while using limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Linrui Dai , Wenhui Lei , Xiaofan Zhang