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Collecting large-scale medical datasets with fine-grained annotations is time-consuming and requires experts. For this reason, weakly supervised learning aims at optimising machine learning models using weaker forms of annotations, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Gabriele Valvano , Andrea Leo , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Deep neural networks usually require accurate and a large number of annotations to achieve outstanding performance in medical image segmentation. One-shot segmentation and weakly-supervised learning are promising research directions that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Wenhui Lei , Qi Su , Ran Gu , Na Wang , Xinglong Liu , Guotai Wang , Xiaofan Zhang , Shaoting Zhang

Medical image segmentation remains challenging due to limited annotations for training, ambiguous anatomical features, and domain shifts. While vision-language models such as CLIP offer strong cross-modal representations, their potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Taha Koleilat , Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Omid Nejati Manzari , Berardino Barile , Yiming Xiao , Hassan Rivaz

The medical imaging literature has witnessed remarkable progress in high-performing segmentation models based on convolutional neural networks. Despite the new performance highs, the recent advanced segmentation models still require large,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 Nima Tajbakhsh , Laura Jeyaseelan , Qian Li , Jeffrey Chiang , Zhihao Wu , Xiaowei Ding

Despite significant advancements, segmentation based on deep neural networks in medical and surgical imaging faces several challenges, two of which we aim to address in this work. First, acquiring complete pixel-level segmentation labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Junwen Wang , Zhonghao Wang , Oscar MacCormac , Jonathan Shapey , Tom Vercauteren

The eye-tracking video saliency prediction (VSP) task and video salient object detection (VSOD) task both focus on the most attractive objects in video and show the result in the form of predictive heatmaps and pixel-level saliency masks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Qi Qin , Runmin Cong , Gen Zhan , Yiting Liao , Sam Kwong

This paper presents a fresh perspective on the role of saliency maps in weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) and offers new insights and research directions based on our empirical findings. We conduct comprehensive experiments and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Beomyoung Kim , Donghyun Kim , Sung Ju Hwang

Event cameras excel in capturing high-contrast scenes and dynamic objects, offering a significant advantage over traditional frame-based cameras. Despite active research into leveraging event cameras for semantic segmentation, generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Hoonhee Cho , Sung-Hoon Yoon , Hyeokjun Kweon , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels aims to achieve pixel-level predictions using Class Activation Maps (CAMs). Recently, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has been introduced in WSSS.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Zhiwei Yang , Yucong Meng , Kexue Fu , Feilong Tang , Shuo Wang , Zhijian Song

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) offers immense potential in the field of medical image analysis, enabling accurate object segmentation with limited training data. However, existing FSS techniques heavily rely on annotated semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Dorit Merhof

Automatic medical image segmentation is a fundamental step in computer-aided diagnosis, yet fully supervised approaches demand extensive pixel-level annotations that are costly and time-consuming. To alleviate this burden, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Lei Shi , Gang Li , Junxing Zhang

Nuclei segmentation is a fundamental task in histopathology image analysis. Typically, such segmentation tasks require significant effort to manually generate accurate pixel-wise annotations for fully supervised training. To alleviate such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Hui Qu , Pengxiang Wu , Qiaoying Huang , Jingru Yi , Zhennan Yan , Kang Li , Gregory M. Riedlinger , Subhajyoti De , Shaoting Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Despite significant progress in pixel-level medical image analysis, existing medical image segmentation models rarely explore medical segmentation and diagnosis tasks jointly. However, it is crucial for patients that models can provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Lingran Song , Yucheng Zhou , Jianbing Shen

Fibrotic Lung Disease (FLD) is a severe condition marked by lung stiffening and scarring, leading to respiratory decline. High-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) is critical for diagnosing and monitoring FLD; however, fibrosis appears as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Zhiling Yue , Yingying Fang , Liutao Yang , Nikhil Baid , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang

While 3D Gaussian Splatting enables high-quality real-time rendering, existing Gaussian-based frameworks for 3D semantic segmentation still face significant challenges in boundary recognition accuracy. To address this, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Zehao Li , Wenwei Han , Yujun Cai , Hao Jiang , Baolong Bi , Shuqin Gao , Honglong Zhao , Zhaoqi Wang

Although numerous improvements have been made in the field of image segmentation using convolutional neural networks, the majority of these improvements rely on training with larger datasets, model architecture modifications, novel loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Saied Asgari Taghanaki , Kumar Abhishek , Ghassan Hamarneh

Current weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) frameworks usually contain the separated mask-refinement model and the main semantic region mining model. These approaches would contain redundant feature extraction backbones and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Dingwen Zhang , Wenyuan Zeng , Guangyu Guo , Chaowei Fang , Lechao Cheng , Ming-Ming Cheng , Junwei Han

Pixel-wise segmentation is one of the most data and annotation hungry tasks in our field. Providing representative and accurate annotations is often mission-critical especially for challenging medical applications. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Simon Reiß , Constantin Seibold , Alexander Freytag , Erik Rodner , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Deep learning in medical imaging is often limited by scarce and imbalanced annotated data. We present SSGNet, a unified framework that combines class specific generative modeling with iterative semisupervised pseudo labeling to enhance both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Mosong Ma , Tania Stathaki , Michalis Lazarou

Weakly-supervised salient object detection (WSOD) aims to develop saliency models using image-level annotations. Despite of the success of previous works, explorations on an effective training strategy for the saliency network and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Yongri Piao , Jian Wang , Miao Zhang , Zhengxuan Ma , Huchuan Lu