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In this paper, we develop a new weakly-supervised learning algorithm to learn to segment cancerous regions in histopathology images. Our work is under a multiple instance learning framework (MIL) with a new formulation, deep weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Zhipeng Jia , Xingyi Huang , Eric I-Chao Chang , Yan Xu

Deep learning models have become the mainstream method for medical image segmentation, but they require a large manually labeled dataset for training and are difficult to extend to unseen categories. Few-shot segmentation(FSS) has the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-27 Yao Huang , Jianming Liu

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to segment objects of unseen classes given only a few annotated support images. Most existing methods simply stitch query features with independent support prototypes and segment the query image by feeding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Kai Huang , Mingfei Cheng , Yang Wang , Bochen Wang , Ye Xi , Feigege Wang , Peng Chen

Few-shot Semantic Segmentation(FSS)aim to adapt a pre-trained model to new classes with as few as a single labeled training sample per class. The existing prototypical work used in natural image scenarios biasedly focus on capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Song Tang , Chunxiao Zu , Wenxin Su , Yuan Dong , Mao Ye , Yan Gan , Xiatian Zhu

The recent advancements in large-scale pre-training techniques have significantly enhanced the capabilities of vision foundation models, notably the Segment Anything Model (SAM), which can generate precise masks based on point and box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Anqi Zhang , Guangyu Gao , Jianbo Jiao , Chi Harold Liu , Yunchao Wei

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in clinical decision making, treatment planning, and disease tracking. However, it still faces two major challenges. On the one hand, there is often a ``soft boundary'' between foreground…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Mengqi Lei , Haochen Wu , Xinhua Lv , Xin Wang

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) is proposed to segment unknown class targets with just a few annotated samples. Most current FSS methods follow the paradigm of mining the semantics from the support images to guide the query image segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Hanbo Bi , Yingchao Feng , Zhiyuan Yan , Yongqiang Mao , Wenhui Diao , Hongqi Wang , Xian Sun

Few-shot 3D point cloud segmentation (FS-PCS) aims at generalizing models to segment novel categories with minimal annotated support samples. While existing FS-PCS methods have shown promise, they primarily focus on unimodal point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zhaochong An , Guolei Sun , Yun Liu , Runjia Li , Min Wu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ender Konukoglu , Serge Belongie

Weakly supervised image segmentation with image-level labels has drawn attention due to the high cost of pixel-level annotations. Traditional methods using Class Activation Maps (CAMs) often highlight only the most discriminative regions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Qingchen Tang , Lei Fan , Maurice Pagnucco , Yang Song

Medical image segmentation is almost the most important pre-processing procedure in computer-aided diagnosis but is also a very challenging task due to the complex shapes of segments and various artifacts caused by medical imaging, (i.e.,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Hao Du , Qihua Dong , Yan Xu , Jing Liao

Few-shot medical image segmentation (FSMIS) has achieved notable progress, yet most existing methods mainly rely on semantic correspondences from scarce annotations while under-utilizing a key property of medical imagery: anatomical targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhihao Mao , Bangpu Chen

Segmentation refinement aims to enhance the initial coarse masks generated by segmentation algorithms. The refined masks are expected to capture more details and better contours of the target objects. Research on segmentation refinement has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Seonghyeon Moon , Qingze , Liu , Haein Kong , Muhammad Haris Khan

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) for medical image segmentation is a challenging yet highly practical task, which reduces reliance on large-scale labeled dataset by leveraging unlabeled samples. Among SSL techniques, the weak-to-strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Shiao Xie , Hongyi Wang , Ziwei Niu , Hao Sun , Shuyi Ouyang , Yen-Wei Chen , Lanfen Lin

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) in histopathology seeks to reduce annotation cost by learning from image-level labels, yet it remains limited by inter-class homogeneity, intra-class heterogeneity, and the region-shrinkage…

In semantic segmentation, accurate prediction masks are crucial for downstream tasks such as medical image analysis and image editing. Due to the lack of annotated data, few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) performs poorly in predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Chen-Bin Feng , Qi Lai , Kangdao Liu , Houcheng Su , Chi-Man Vong

Few-shot action recognition aims to enable models to quickly learn new action categories from limited labeled samples, addressing the challenge of data scarcity in real-world applications. Current research primarily addresses three core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xiaoyang Li , Mingming Lu , Ruiqi Wang , Hao Li , Zewei Le

Medical Image Segmentation (MIS) plays a crucial role in medical therapy planning and robot navigation. Prototype learning methods in MIS focus on generating segmentation masks through pixel-to-prototype comparison. However, current…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-11 Guoyan Liang , Qin Zhou , Jingyuan Chen , Zhe Wang , Chang Yao

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) is a dense prediction task that aims to infer the pixel-wise labels of unseen classes using only a limited number of annotated images. The key challenge in FSS is to classify the labels of query pixels using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Wenbo Xu , Huaxi Huang , Ming Cheng , Litao Yu , Qiang Wu , Jian Zhang

Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS), which focuses on segmenting new classes in images using only a limited number of annotated examples, has recently progressed in data-scarce domains. However, in this work, we show that the existing FSS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zhuohao Li , Zhicheng Huang , Wenchao Liu , Zhuxin Zhang , Jianming Miao

Few-shot learning (FSL) presents immense potential in enhancing model generalization and practicality for medical image classification with limited training data; however, it still faces the challenge of severe overfitting in classifier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Qianyu Guo , Huifang Du , Xing Jia , Shuyong Gao , Yan Teng , Haofen Wang , Wenqiang Zhang