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Recently, instance segmentation has made great progress with the rapid development of deep neural networks. However, there still exist two main challenges including discovering indistinguishable objects and modeling the relationship between…

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Recently deep neural networks, which require a large amount of annotated samples, have been widely applied in nuclei instance segmentation of H\&E stained pathology images. However, it is inefficient and unnecessary to label all pixels for…

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Building a large image dataset with high-quality object masks for semantic segmentation is costly and time consuming. In this paper, we introduce a principled semi-supervised framework that only uses a small set of fully supervised images…

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Lesion segmentation on computed tomography (CT) scans is an important step for precisely monitoring changes in lesion/tumor growth. This task, however, is very challenging since manual segmentation is prohibitively time-consuming,…

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Unets have become the standard method for semantic segmentation of medical images, along with fully convolutional networks (FCN). Unet++ was introduced as a variant of Unet, in order to solve some of the problems facing Unet and FCNs.…

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Neural networks often obtain sub-optimal representations during training, which degrade robustness as well as classification performances. This is a severe problem in applying deep learning to bio-medical domains, since models are…

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Automatic lesion detection and segmentation from [${}^{18}$F]FDG PET/CT scans is a challenging task, due to the diversity of shapes, sizes, FDG uptake and location they may present, besides the fact that physiological uptake is also present…

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Segmentation is essential for medical image analysis to identify and localize diseases, monitor morphological changes, and extract discriminative features for further diagnosis. Skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer…

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Nuclei segmentation is the cornerstone task in histology image reading, shedding light on the underlying molecular patterns and leading to disease or cancer diagnosis. Yet, it is a laborious task that requires expertise from trained…

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Class-agnostic image segmentation is a crucial component in automating image editing workflows, especially in contexts where object selection traditionally involves interactive tools. Existing methods in the literature often adhere to…

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Widely adopted medical image segmentation methods, although efficient, are primarily deterministic and remain poorly amenable to natural language prompts. Thus, they lack the capability to estimate multiple proposals, human interaction, and…

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Liver tumour ablation presents a significant clinical challenge: whilst tumours are clearly visible on pre-operative MRI, they are often effectively invisible on intra-operative CT due to minimal contrast between pathological and healthy…

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Image analysis using more than one modality (i.e. multi-modal) has been increasingly applied in the field of biomedical imaging. One of the challenges in performing the multimodal analysis is that there exist multiple schemes for fusing the…

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Understanding human behavior is an important problem in the pursuit of visual intelligence. A challenge in this endeavor is the extensive and costly effort required to accurately label action segments. To address this issue, we consider…

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Few-shot segmentation focuses on the generalization of models to segment unseen object instances with limited training samples. Although tremendous improvements have been achieved, existing methods are still constrained by two factors. (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xianghui Yang , Bairun Wang , Kaige Chen , Xinchi Zhou , Shuai Yi , Wanli Ouyang , Luping Zhou

Nucleus image segmentation is a crucial step in the analysis, pathological diagnosis, and classification, which heavily relies on the quality of nucleus segmentation. However, the complexity of issues such as variations in nucleus size,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Junzhou Chen , Qian Huang , Yulin Chen , Linyi Qian , Chengyuan Yu

For navigation of robots, image segmentation is an important component to determining a terrain's traversability. For safe and efficient navigation, it is key to assess the uncertainty of the predicted segments. Current uncertainty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Judith Dijk , Gertjan Burghouts , Kapil D. Katyal , Bryanna Y. Yeh , Craig T. Knuth , Ella Fokkinga , Tejaswi Kasarla , Pascal Mettes

Nuclei instance segmentation in pathological images is crucial for downstream tasks such as tumor microenvironment analysis. However, the high cost and scarcity of annotated data limit the applicability of fully supervised methods, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zenan Lin , Wei Li , Jintao Chen , Zihao Wu , Wenxiong Kang , Changxin Gao , Liansheng Wang , Jin-Gang Yu

Methods for object detection and segmentation rely on large scale instance-level annotations for training, which are difficult and time-consuming to collect. Efforts to alleviate this look at varying degrees and quality of supervision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Siddhesh Khandelwal , Raghav Goyal , Leonid Sigal

When encountering a dubious diagnostic case, medical instance retrieval can help radiologists make evidence-based diagnoses by finding images containing instances similar to a query case from a large image database. The similarity between…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Jiansheng Fang , Huazhu Fu , Dan Zeng , Xiao Yan , Yuguang Yan , Jiang Liu