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Semantic segmentation of medical images is pivotal in applications like disease diagnosis and treatment planning. While deep learning has excelled in automating this task, a major hurdle is the need for numerous annotated segmentation…

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MR imaging is a valuable diagnostic tool allowing to non-invasively visualize patient anatomy and pathology with high soft-tissue contrast. However, MRI acquisition is typically time-consuming, leading to patient discomfort and increased…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Jan Nikolas Morshuis , Matthias Hein , Christian F. Baumgartner

As a fundamental and extensively studied task in computer vision, image segmentation aims to locate and identify different semantic concepts at the pixel level. Recently, inspired by In-Context Learning (ICL), several generalist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Wei Suo , Lanqing Lai , Mengyang Sun , Hanwang Zhang , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Accurate segmentation of blood vessels in brain magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is essential for successful surgical procedures, such as aneurysm repair or bypass surgery. Currently, annotation is primarily performed through manual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Alexandra Bernadotte , Elfimov Nikita , Mikhail Shutov , Ivan Menshikov

Medical image segmentation is crucial for clinical applications, but it is frequently disrupted by noisy annotations and ambiguous anatomical boundaries, limiting its application in real-world scenarios. Existing methods often directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chenyu Mu , Guihai Chen , Xun Yang , Erkun Yang , Cheng Deng

Multimodal learning leverages complementary information derived from different modalities, thereby enhancing performance in medical image segmentation. However, prevailing multimodal learning methods heavily rely on extensive well-annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Xiaogen Zhou , Yiyou Sun , Min Deng , Winnie Chiu Wing Chu , Qi Dou

Reliable classification and detection of certain medical conditions, in images, with state-of-the-art semantic segmentation networks, require vast amounts of pixel-wise annotation. However, the public availability of such datasets is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Erik Ostrowski , Bharath Srinivas Prabakaran , Muhammad Shafique

Medical image annotation typically requires expert knowledge and hence incurs time-consuming and expensive data annotation costs. To alleviate this burden, we propose a novel learning scenario, Exemplar Learning (EL), to explore automated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Qing En , Yuhong Guo

Medical experts often manually segment images to obtain diagnostic statistics and discard the resulting annotations. We aim to train segmentation models to alleviate this burden, but constrained to the retained summary statistics (e.g., the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Omkar Kulkarni , Edward Raff , Tim Oates

Along with the breakthrough of convolutional neural networks, learning-based segmentation has emerged in many research works. Most of them are based on supervised learning, requiring plenty of annotated data; however, to support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Junhuan Yang , Yi Sheng , Yuzhou Zhang , Weiwen Jiang , Lei Yang

Multi-annotator medical image segmentation is an important research problem, but requires annotated datasets that are expensive to collect. Dermoscopic skin lesion imaging allows human experts and AI systems to observe morphological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Kumar Abhishek , Jeremy Kawahara , Ghassan Hamarneh

Most existing video tasks related to "human" focus on the segmentation of salient humans, ignoring the unspecified others in the video. Few studies have focused on segmenting and tracking all humans in a complex video, including pedestrians…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Ran Yu , Chenyu Tian , Weihao Xia , Xinyuan Zhao , Haoqian Wang , Yujiu Yang

Interactive Medical Image Segmentation (IMIS) has long been constrained by the limited availability of large-scale, diverse, and densely annotated datasets, which hinders model generalization and consistent evaluation across different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Junlong Cheng , Bin Fu , Jin Ye , Guoan Wang , Tianbin Li , Haoyu Wang , Ruoyu Li , He Yao , Junren Chen , Jingwen Li , Yanzhou Su , Min Zhu , Junjun He

Medical image segmentation, particularly in multi-domain scenarios, requires precise preservation of anatomical structures across diverse representations. While deep learning has advanced this field, existing models often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Afshin Bozorgpour , Sina Ghorbani Kolahi , Reza Azad , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dorit Merhof

In medical imaging, scans often reveal objects with varied contrasts but consistent internal intensities or textures. This characteristic enables the use of low-frequency approximations for tasks such as segmentation and deformation field…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-19 Hang Zhang , Xiang Chen , Rongguang Wang , Renjiu Hu , Dongdong Liu , Gaolei Li

Instance segmentation in 3D images is a fundamental task in biomedical image analysis. While deep learning models often work well for 2D instance segmentation, 3D instance segmentation still faces critical challenges, such as insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Zhuo Zhao , Lin Yang , Hao Zheng , Ian H. Guldner , Siyuan Zhang , Danny Z. Chen

We propose a unified cross-domain transfer learning framework that leverages knowledge from multiple heterogeneous medical imaging datasets to improve performance across segmentation, classification, and object detection tasks. Our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ceausescu Ciprian-Mihai , Anghelina Ion-Marian , Alexe Dumitru-Bogdan

As a pragmatic data augmentation tool, data synthesis has generally returned dividends in performance for deep learning based medical image analysis. However, generating corresponding segmentation masks for synthetic medical images is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-23 Xiaodan Xing , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang

Accurate segmentation of MR brain tissue is a crucial step for diagnosis,surgical planning, and treatment of brain abnormalities. However,it is a time-consuming task to be performed by medical experts. So, automatic and reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Yang Deng , Yao Sun , Yongpei Zhu , Mingwang Zhu , Wei Han , Kehong Yuan

Nuclei instance segmentation on histopathology images is of great clinical value for disease analysis. Generally, fully-supervised algorithms for this task require pixel-wise manual annotations, which is especially time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yang Zhou , Yongjian Wu , Zihua Wang , Bingzheng Wei , Maode Lai , Jianzhong Shou , Yubo Fan , Yan Xu