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We present an approach for fully automatic urinary bladder segmentation in CT images with artificial neural networks in this study. Automatic medical image analysis has become an invaluable tool in the different treatment stages of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Christina Gsaxner , Peter M. Roth , Jürgen Wallner , Jan Egger

Self-supervised pretraining (SSP) has shown promising results in learning from large unlabeled datasets and, thus, could be useful for automated cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) short-axis cine segmentation. However, inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Rob A. J. de Mooij , Josien P. W. Pluim , Cian M. Scannell

Segmentation is an important analysis task for biomedical images, enabling the study of individual organelles, cells or organs. Deep learning has massively improved segmentation methods, but challenges remain in generalization to new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Carolin Teuber , Anwai Archit , Constantin Pape

Supervised deep learning-based methods yield accurate results for medical image segmentation. However, they require large labeled datasets for this, and obtaining them is a laborious task that requires clinical expertise.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Krishna Chaitanya , Ertunc Erdil , Neerav Karani , Ender Konukoglu

We present a semi-supervised framework for joint segmentation and classification of fetal cardiac ultrasound images. Built upon the EchoCare multi-task backbone, our method integrates SAM-Med2D for boundary refinement and leverages DINOv3…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Tonghao Zhuang , Shanglong Hu , Yongsheng Luo , Zhiqi Zhang , Yu Li

The success of deep learning methods in medical image segmentation tasks heavily depends on a large amount of labeled data to supervise the training. On the other hand, the annotation of biomedical images requires domain knowledge and can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Xinrong Hu , Dewen Zeng , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi

In this study, we present a method for generating automated anatomy segmentation datasets using a sequential process that involves nnU-Net-based pseudo-labeling and anatomy-guided pseudo-label refinement. By combining various fragmented…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Alexander Jaus , Constantin Seibold , Kelsey Hermann , Alexandra Walter , Kristina Giske , Johannes Haubold , Jens Kleesiek , Rainer Stiefelhagen

The emergence of large-scale pretrained foundation models has transformed computer vision, enabling strong performance across diverse downstream tasks. However, their potential for physics-based inverse problems, such as accelerated cardiac…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Anam Hashmi , Mayug Maniparambil , Julia Dietlmeier , Kathleen M. Curran , Noel E. O'Connor

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in medical imaging. Although supervised learning techniques have proven to be effective in performing this task, they heavily depend on large amounts of annotated training data. The recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Ron Keuth , Lasse Hansen , Maren Balks , Ronja Jäger , Anne-Nele Schröder , Ludger Tüshaus , Mattias Heinrich

A key challenge for the widespread application of learning-based models for robotic perception is to significantly reduce the required amount of annotated training data while achieving accurate predictions. This is essential not only to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Niclas Vödisch , Kürsat Petek , Markus Käppeler , Abhinav Valada , Wolfram Burgard

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation typically relies on ground truth (GT) labels obtained through manual annotation, but these can be prone to random errors or systematic biases. This study examines the robustness of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Iman Islam , Bram Ruijsink , Andrew J. Reader , Andrew P. King

Current 3D scene segmentation methods are heavily dependent on manually annotated 3D training datasets. Such manual annotations are labor-intensive, and often lack fine-grained details. Importantly, models trained on this data typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Rui Huang , Songyou Peng , Ayca Takmaz , Federico Tombari , Marc Pollefeys , Shiji Song , Gao Huang , Francis Engelmann

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a pivotal tool for assessing cardiac function. Precise segmentation of cardiac structures is imperative for accurate cardiac functional evaluation. This paper introduces a semi-supervised model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Hejun Huang , Zuguo Chen , Yi Huang , Guangqiang Luo , Chaoyang Chen , Youzhi Song

Accurate training labels are a key component for multi-class medical image segmentation. Their annotation is costly and time-consuming because it requires domain expertise. This work aims to develop a dual-branch network and automatically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Jianfei Liu , Christopher Parnell , Ronald M. Summers

Foundation models open up new possibilities for the use of AI in healthcare. However, even when pre-trained on health data, they still need to be fine-tuned for specific downstream tasks. Furthermore, although foundation models reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Adam Tupper , Christian Gagné

Despite the remarkable success of deep learning in medical imaging analysis, medical image segmentation remains challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality labeled images for supervision. Further, the significant domain gap between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Hedda Cohen Indelman , Elay Dahan , Angeles M. Perez-Agosto , Carmit Shiran , Doron Shaked , Nati Daniel

Large pretrained visual foundation models exhibit impressive general capabilities. However, the extensive prior knowledge inherent in these models can sometimes be a double-edged sword when adapting them to downstream tasks in specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Qinghe Ma , Jian Zhang , Zekun Li , Lei Qi , Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi

Automated noninvasive cardiac diagnosis plays a critical role in the early detection of cardiac disorders and cost-effective clinical management. Automated diagnosis involves the automated segmentation and analysis of cardiac images.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Racheal Mukisa , Arvind K. Bansal

Image segmentation is a fundamental problem in medical image analysis. In recent years, deep neural networks achieve impressive performances on many medical image segmentation tasks by supervised learning on large manually annotated data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Ling Zhang , Vissagan Gopalakrishnan , Le Lu , Ronald M. Summers , Joel Moss , Jianhua Yao

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) imaging is a vital non-invasive tool for diagnosing heart diseases and evaluating cardiac health. However, the limited availability of large-scale, high-quality CMR datasets poses a major challenge to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Ziyu Li , Yujian Hu , Zhengyao Ding , Yiheng Mao , Haitao Li , Fan Yi , Hongkun Zhang , Zhengxing Huang