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Weakly supervised segmentation is an important problem in medical image analysis due to the high cost of pixelwise annotation. Prior methods, while often focusing on weak labels of 2D images, exploit few structural cues of volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Qian He , Shuailin Li , Xuming He

Liver tumor segmentation is essential for computer-aided diagnosis, surgical planning, and prognosis evaluation. However, obtaining and maintaining a large-scale dataset with dense annotations is challenging. Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Shiyun Chen , Li Lin , Pujin Cheng , Xiaoying Tang

Semi-supervised multi-organ medical image segmentation aids physicians in improving disease diagnosis and treatment planning and reduces the time and effort required for organ annotation.Existing state-of-the-art methods train the labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Haochen Zhao , Hui Meng , Deqian Yang , Xiaozheng Xie , Xiaoze Wu , Qingfeng Li , Jianwei Niu

A key requirement for the success of supervised deep learning is a large labeled dataset - a condition that is difficult to meet in medical image analysis. Self-supervised learning (SSL) can help in this regard by providing a strategy to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Krishna Chaitanya , Ertunc Erdil , Neerav Karani , Ender Konukoglu

The segmentation of metastatic bone disease (MBD) in whole-body MRI (WB-MRI) is a challenging problem. Due to varying appearances and anatomical locations of lesions, ambiguous boundaries, and severe class imbalance, obtaining reliable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Joris Wuts , Jakub Ceranka , Nicolas Michoux , Frédéric Lecouvet , Jef Vandemeulebroucke

Standard segmentation of medical images based on full-supervised convolutional networks demands accurate dense annotations. Such learning framework is built on laborious manual annotation with restrict demands for expertise, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Liyan Sun , Jianxiong Wu , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang , Guisheng Wang , Yizhou Yu

Vision transformers, with their ability to more efficiently model long-range context, have demonstrated impressive accuracy gains in several computer vision and medical image analysis tasks including segmentation. However, such methods need…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Jue Jiang , Neelam Tyagi , Kathryn Tringale , Christopher Crane , Harini Veeraraghavan

Self-supervised learning has proven to be an effective way to learn representations in domains where annotated labels are scarce, such as medical imaging. A widely adopted framework for this purpose is contrastive learning and it has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Hugo Figueiras , Helena Aidos , Nuno Cruz Garcia

The goal of Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) is to localize and segment the sounding source objects from video frames. Research on AVS suffers from data scarcity due to the high cost of fine-grained manual annotations. Recent works attempt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Kyungbok Lee , You Zhang , Zhiyao Duan

Segment Anything Model (SAM) demonstrates powerful zero-shot capabilities; however, its accuracy and robustness significantly decrease when applied to medical image segmentation. Existing methods address this issue through modality fusion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Yiheng Zhong , Zihong Luo , Chengzhi Liu , Feilong Tang , Zelin Peng , Ming Hu , Yingzhen Hu , Jionglong Su , Zongyuan Ge , Imran Razzak

Foundation models (FMs) such as CLIP and SAM have recently shown great promise in image segmentation tasks, yet their adaptation to 3D medical imaging-particularly for pathology detection and segmentation-remains underexplored. A critical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Sirui Li , Linkai Peng , Zheyuan Zhang , Gorkem Durak , Ulas Bagci

In multi-organ segmentation of abdominal CT scans, most existing fully supervised deep learning algorithms require lots of voxel-wise annotations, which are usually difficult, expensive, and slow to obtain. In comparison, massive unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Yuyin Zhou , Yan Wang , Peng Tang , Song Bai , Wei Shen , Elliot K. Fishman , Alan L. Yuille

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for addressing the annotation bottleneck in medical imaging by learning representations from unlabeled data. However, its effectiveness depends heavily on the design of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chathura Wimalasiri

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has been successful in building patch embeddings of small histology images (e.g., 224x224 pixels), but scaling these models to learn slide embeddings from the entirety of giga-pixel whole-slide images (WSIs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Guillaume Jaume , Lukas Oldenburg , Anurag Vaidya , Richard J. Chen , Drew F. K. Williamson , Thomas Peeters , Andrew H. Song , Faisal Mahmood

Text-guided medical segmentation enhances segmentation accuracy by utilizing clinical reports as auxiliary information. However, existing methods typically rely on unaligned image and text encoders, which necessitate complex interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Gaoren Lin , Huangxuan Zhao , Yuan Xiong , Lefei Zhang , Bo Du , Wentao Zhu

The ability to adapt medical image segmentation networks for a novel class such as an unseen anatomical or pathological structure, when only a few labelled examples of this class are available from local healthcare providers, is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Yiwen Li , Yunguan Fu , Qianye Yang , Zhe Min , Wen Yan , Henkjan Huisman , Dean Barratt , Victor Adrian Prisacariu , Yipeng Hu

Anatomical segmentation of organs in ultrasound images is essential to many clinical applications, particularly for diagnosis and monitoring. Existing deep neural networks require a large amount of labeled data for training in order to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Yordanka Velikova , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Walter Simson , Vanessa Gonzalez Duque , Nassir Navab

Medical images like CT and MRI provide detailed information about the internal structure of the body, and identifying key anatomical structures from these images plays a crucial role in clinical workflows. Current methods treat it as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Xiaoyu Bai , Yong Xia

Recently, machine learning-based semantic segmentation algorithms have demonstrated their potential to accurately segment regions and contours in medical images, allowing the precise location of anatomical structures and abnormalities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yifei Wang , Chuhong Zhu

Multi-organ segmentation in abdominal Computed Tomography (CT) images is of great importance for diagnosis of abdominal lesions and subsequent treatment planning. Though deep learning based methods have attained high performance, they rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Meng Han , Xiangde Luo , Wenjun Liao , Shichuan Zhang , Shaoting Zhang , Guotai Wang