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Accurate medical image analysis can greatly assist clinical diagnosis, but its effectiveness relies on high-quality expert annotations Obtaining pixel-level labels for medical images, particularly fundus images, remains costly and…

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The need for improved diagnostic methods in ophthalmology is acute, especially in the underdeveloped regions with limited access to specialists and advanced equipment. Therefore, we introduce VisionUnite, a novel vision-language foundation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Zihan Li , Diping Song , Zefeng Yang , Deming Wang , Fei Li , Xiulan Zhang , Paul E. Kinahan , Yu Qiao

Retinal diseases are a leading cause of vision impairment and blindness, with timely diagnosis being critical for effective treatment. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) has become a standard imaging modality for retinal disease diagnosis,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Jilan Cheng , Guoli Long , Zeyu Zhang , Zhenjia Qi , Hanyu Wang , Libin Lu , Shuihua Wang , Yudong Zhang , Jin Hong

This paper attacks an emerging challenge of multi-modal retinal disease recognition. Given a multi-modal case consisting of a color fundus photo (CFP) and an array of OCT B-scan images acquired during an eye examination, we aim to build a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Xirong Li , Yang Zhou , Jie Wang , Hailan Lin , Jianchun Zhao , Dayong Ding , Weihong Yu , Youxin Chen

Retinal foundation models aim to learn generalizable representations from diverse retinal images, facilitating label-efficient model adaptation across various ophthalmic tasks. Despite their success, current retinal foundation models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Kai Yu , Yang Zhou , Yang Bai , Zhi Da Soh , Xinxing Xu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Ching-Yu Cheng , Yong Liu

Background: RETFound, a self-supervised, retina-specific foundation model (FM), showed potential in downstream applications. However, its comparative performance with traditional deep learning (DL) models remains incompletely understood.…

This paper addresses the emerging task of recognizing multiple retinal diseases from wide-field (WF) and ultra-wide-field (UWF) fundus images. For an effective use of existing large amount of labeled color fundus photo (CFP) data and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-25 Qijie Wei , Jingyuan Yang , Bo Wang , Jinrui Wang , Jianchun Zhao , Xinyu Zhao , Sheng Yang , Niranchana Manivannan , Youxin Chen , Dayong Ding , Jing Zhou , Xirong Li

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) and diabetic macular edema (DME) are leading causes of preventable blindness among working-age adults. Traditional approaches in the literature focus on standard color fundus photography (CFP) for the detection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Pablo Jimenez-Lizcano , Sergio Romero-Tapiador , Ruben Tolosana , Aythami Morales , Guillermo González de Rivera , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Julian Fierrez

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a novel and effective screening tool for ophthalmic examination. Since collecting OCT images is relatively more expensive than fundus photographs, existing methods use multi-modal learning to complement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Lehan Wang , Weihang Dai , Mei Jin , Chubin Ou , Xiaomeng Li

Radiology is a vital and complex component of modern clinical workflow and covers many tasks. Recently, vision-language (VL) foundation models in medicine have shown potential in processing multimodal information, offering a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Xiaohong Liu , Guoxing Yang , Yulin Luo , Jiaji Mao , Xiang Zhang , Ming Gao , Shanghang Zhang , Jun Shen , Guangyu Wang

The rising prevalence of vision-threatening retinal diseases poses a significant burden on the global healthcare systems. Deep learning (DL) offers a promising solution for automatic disease screening but demands substantial data.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Ruoyu Chen , Weiyi Zhang , Bowen Liu , Xiaolan Chen , Pusheng Xu , Shunming Liu , Mingguang He , Danli Shi

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a major cause of global blindness, necessitating early and accurate diagnosis. While deep learning models have shown promise in DR detection, their black-box nature often hinders clinical adoption due to a lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Masato Ito , Kaito Tanaka , Keisuke Matsuda , Aya Nakayama

Large vision foundation models have been widely adopted for retinal disease classification without systematic evidence justifying their parameter requirements. In the present work we address two critical questions: First, are large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 David Isztl , Tahm Spitznagel , Gabor Mark Somfai , Rui Santos

Vision-and-language models (VLMs) have been increasingly explored in the medical domain, particularly following the success of CLIP in general domain. However, unlike the relatively straightforward pairing of 2D images and text, curating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ziyang Zhang , Yang Yu , Xulei Yang , Si Yong Yeo

The scarcity of high-quality, labelled retinal imaging data, which presents a significant challenge in the development of machine learning models for ophthalmology, hinders progress in the field. Existing methods for synthesising Colour…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Junzhi Ning , Cheng Tang , Kaijing Zhou , Diping Song , Lihao Liu , Ming Hu , Wei Li , Huihui Xu , Yanzhou Su , Tianbin Li , Jiyao Liu , Jin Ye , Sheng Zhang , Yuanfeng Ji , Junjun He

Artificial intelligence applied to retinal images offers significant potential for recognizing signs and symptoms of retinal conditions and expediting the diagnosis of eye diseases and systemic disorders. However, developing generalized…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Boa Jang , Youngbin Ahn , Eun Kyung Choe , Chang Ki Yoon , Hyuk Jin Choi , Young-Gon Kim

Ultra-widefield (UWF) imaging is a promising modality that captures a larger retinal field of view compared to traditional fundus photography. Previous studies showed that deep learning (DL) models are effective for detecting retinal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Justin Engelmann , Alice D. McTrusty , Ian J. C. MacCormick , Emma Pead , Amos Storkey , Miguel O. Bernabeu

Visual impairment represents a major global health challenge, with multimodal imaging providing complementary information that is essential for accurate ophthalmic diagnosis. This comprehensive survey systematically reviews the latest…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Xiaoling Luo , Ruli Zheng , Qiaojian Zheng , Zibo Du , Shuo Yang , Meidan Ding , Qihao Xu , Chengliang Liu , Linlin Shen

The prevalence of vision-threatening eye diseases is a significant global burden, with many cases remaining undiagnosed or diagnosed too late for effective treatment. Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have the potential to assist in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Zhenyue Qin , Yu Yin , Dylan Campbell , Xuansheng Wu , Ke Zou , Yih-Chung Tham , Ninghao Liu , Xiuzhen Zhang , Qingyu Chen

Open-vocabulary 3D object detection (OV-3DDet) aims to localize and recognize both seen and previously unseen object categories within any new 3D scene. While language and vision foundation models have achieved success in handling various…

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