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Medical image segmentation is a pivotal step in diagnostic and therapeutic processes, relying on high-quality annotated data that is often challenging and costly to obtain. Semi-supervised learning offers a promising approach to enhance…

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Medical image segmentation allows quantifying target structure size and shape, aiding in disease diagnosis, prognosis, surgery planning, and comprehension.Building upon recent advancements in foundation Vision-Language Models (VLMs) from…

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Medical image segmentation is a cornerstone of computer-assisted diagnosis and treatment planning. While recent multimodal vision-language models have shown promise in enhancing semantic understanding through textual descriptions, their…

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The scarcity of annotated data has sparked significant interest in unsupervised pre-training methods that leverage medical reports as auxiliary signals for medical visual representation learning. However, existing research overlooks the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Zhe Li , Laurence T. Yang , Bocheng Ren , Xin Nie , Zhangyang Gao , Cheng Tan , Stan Z. Li

In clinical practice, crossmodal information including medical images and tabular data is essential for disease diagnosis. There exists a significant modality gap between these data types, which obstructs advancements in crossmodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Tianling Liu , Hongying Liu , Fanhua Shang , Lequan Yu , Tong Han , Liang Wan

Medical contrastive vision-language pre-training (VLP) has demonstrated significant potential in improving performance on downstream tasks. Traditional approaches typically employ contrastive learning, treating paired image-report samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Phuoc-Nguyen Bui , Toan Duc Nguyen , Junghyun Bum , Duc-Tai Le , Hyunseung Choo

Supervised deep learning needs a large amount of labeled data to achieve high performance. However, in medical imaging analysis, each site may only have a limited amount of data and labels, which makes learning ineffective. Federated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Yawen Wu , Dewen Zeng , Zhepeng Wang , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Image clustering, which involves grouping images into different clusters without labels, is a key task in unsupervised learning. Although previous deep clustering methods have achieved remarkable results, they only explore the intrinsic…

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Pathological image segmentation faces numerous challenges, particularly due to ambiguous semantic boundaries and the high cost of pixel-level annotations. Although recent semi-supervised methods based on consistency regularization (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Mingxi Fu , Fanglei Fu , Xitong Ling , Huaitian Yuan , Tian Guan , Yonghong He , Lianghui Zhu

Even though convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are driving progress in medical image segmentation, standard models still have some drawbacks. First, the use of multi-scale approaches, i.e., encoder-decoder architectures, leads to a…

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Versatile medical image segmentation (VMIS) targets the segmentation of multiple classes, while obtaining full annotations for all classes is often impractical due to the time and labor required. Leveraging partially labeled datasets (PLDs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Shengqian Zhu , Jiafei Wu , Xiaogang Xu , Chengrong Yu , Ying Song , Zhang Yi , Guangjun Li , Junjie Hu

Existing learning-based solutions to medical image segmentation have two important shortcomings. First, for most new segmentation task, a new model has to be trained or fine-tuned. This requires extensive resources and machine learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Marianne Rakic , Hallee E. Wong , Jose Javier Gonzalez Ortiz , Beth Cimini , John Guttag , Adrian V. Dalca

Vision-language representation learning largely benefits from image-text alignment through contrastive losses (e.g., InfoNCE loss). The success of this alignment strategy is attributed to its capability in maximizing the mutual information…

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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…

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Multi-modal semantic understanding requires integrating information from different modalities to extract users' real intention behind words. Most previous work applies a dual-encoder structure to separately encode image and text, but fails…

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Representation learning offers a conduit to elucidate distinctive features within the latent space and interpret the deep models. However, the randomness of lesion distribution and the complexity of low-quality factors in medical images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Qingshan Hou , Shuai Cheng , Peng Cao , Jinzhu Yang , Xiaoli Liu , Osmar R. Zaiane , Yih Chung Tham

Current 3D semi-supervised segmentation methods face significant challenges such as limited consideration of contextual information and the inability to generate reliable pseudo-labels for effective unsupervised data use. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Yury Velichko , Ulas Bagci , Dorit Merhof

Recent advances in image-text pretraining have significantly enhanced visual understanding by aligning visual and textual representations. Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has played a pivotal role in multimodal learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Zihan Li , Yiqing Wang , Sina Farsiu , Paul Kinahan

The segmentation of endoscopic images plays a vital role in computer-aided diagnosis and treatment. The advancements in deep learning have led to the employment of numerous models for endoscopic tumor segmentation, achieving promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Lingcong Cai , Yun Li , Xiaomao Fan , Kaixuan Song , Ruxin Wang , Wenbin Lei

Few-shot learning in medical image classification presents a significant challenge due to the limited availability of annotated data and the complex nature of medical imagery. In this work, we propose Adaptive Vision-Language Fine-tuning…

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