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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

Semi-supervised medical image segmentation has shown promise in training models with limited labeled data and abundant unlabeled data. However, state-of-the-art methods ignore a potentially valuable source of unsupervised semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Qianying Liu , Paul Henderson , Xiao Gu , Hang Dai , Fani Deligianni

In semi-supervised medical image segmentation, the poor quality of unlabeled data and the uncertainty in the model's predictions lead to models that inevitably produce erroneous pseudo-labels. These errors accumulate throughout model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shiwei Zhou , Xin Liu , Haifeng Zhao , Bin Luo , Dengdi Sun

Although semi-supervised learning has made significant advances in the field of medical image segmentation, fully annotating a volumetric sample slice by slice remains a costly and time-consuming task. Even worse, most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Ke Yan , Qing Cai , Fan Zhang , Ziyan Cao , Zhi Liu

Deep convolutional neural networks are widely used in medical image segmentation but require many labeled images for training. Annotating three-dimensional medical images is a time-consuming and costly process. To overcome this limitation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Weiyi Xie , Nathalie Willems , Nikolas Lessmann , Tom Gibbons , Daniele De Massari

Self-supervised learning in the federated learning paradigm has been gaining a lot of interest both in industry and research due to the collaborative learning capability on unlabeled yet isolated data. However, self-supervised based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Sunder Ali Khowaja , Kapal Dev , Syed Muhammad Anwar , Marius George Linguraru

Supervised machine learning provides state-of-the-art solutions to a wide range of computer vision problems. However, the need for copious labelled training data limits the capabilities of these algorithms in scenarios where such input is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 András Kalapos , Bálint Gyires-Tóth

Semi-supervised segmentation remains challenging in medical imaging since the amount of annotated medical data is often scarce and there are many blurred pixels near the adhesive edges or in the low-contrast regions. To address the issues,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Yicheng Wu , Zhonghua Wu , Qianyi Wu , Zongyuan Ge , Jianfei Cai

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 2025-06-02 Qinghe Ma , Jian Zhang , Lei Qi , Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

A large labeled dataset is a key to the success of supervised deep learning, but for medical image segmentation, it is highly challenging to obtain sufficient annotated images for model training. In many scenarios, unannotated images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Hao Zheng , Jun Han , Hongxiao Wang , Lin Yang , Zhuo Zhao , Chaoli Wang , Danny Z. Chen

Small sample instance segmentation is a very challenging task, and many existing methods follow the training strategy of meta-learning which pre-train models on support set and fine-tune on query set. The pre-training phase, which is highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ruting Chi , Zhiyi Huang , Yuexing Han

Semi-supervised medical image segmentation aims to leverage minimal expert annotations, yet remains confronted by challenges in maintaining high-quality consistency learning. Excessive perturbations can degrade alignment and hinder precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Wenbo Xiao , Zhihao Xu , Guiping Liang , Yangjun Deng , Yi Xiao

The application of deep learning to medical image segmentation has been hampered due to the lack of abundant pixel-level annotated data. Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) is a promising strategy for breaking the deadlock. However, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xiaoang Shen , Guokai Zhang , Huilin Lai , Jihao Luo , Jianwei Lu , Ye Luo

We introduce Mediffusion -- a new method for semi-supervised learning with explainable classification based on a joint diffusion model. The medical imaging domain faces unique challenges due to scarce data labelling -- insufficient for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Joanna Kaleta , Paweł Skierś , Jan Dubiński , Przemysław Korzeniowski , Kamil Deja

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved significant progress in medical image segmentation (SSMIS) through effective utilization of limited labeled data. While current SSL methods for medical images predominantly rely on consistency…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Mengzhu Wang , Jiao Li , Shanshan Wang , Long Lan , Huibin Tan , Liang Yang , Guoli Yang

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation, but it often suffers from unstable pseudo labels under extremely limited annotations, leading to inaccurate supervision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ruili Li , Jiayi Ding , Ruiyu Li , Yilun Jin , Shiwen Ge , Yuwen Zeng , Xiaoyong Zhang , Eichi Takaya , Jan Vrba , Noriyasu Homma

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

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

Semi-supervised domain generalization (SSDG) in medical image segmentation offers a promising solution for generalizing to unseen domains during testing, addressing domain shift challenges and minimizing annotation costs. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jincai Song , Haipeng Chen , Jun Qin , Na Zhao

Semi-supervised learning relaxes the need of large pixel-wise labeled datasets for image segmentation by leveraging unlabeled data. The scarcity of high-quality labeled data remains a major challenge in medical image analysis due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jun Li